Head of People and Culture
- Norfolk Wildlife Trust
- Hybrid (Bewick House, Thorpe Road, Norwich, UK)
- 05/10/2026
Job Description
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the county’s largest environmental charity, committed to the protection and enhancement of Norfolk’s wildlife and wild places.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is seeking a new Head of People and Culture. You and your team are responsible for championing a positive, values-led culture developing and delivering on the People and Culture Strategy to maximise the potential and impact of our people, both staff and volunteers.
Your excellent relationship-building and influencing skills will ensure we can recruit, retain, develop, support and engage our people and your strong technical expertise means the highest standards of charity HR and volunteer practice are met.
The closing date for this role will be 5pm on the 30th October. With interviews likely to take place 11th/13th of November.
Please see here for the attached job description and person specification: Job Description
For details on how to apply, please visit: Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Head of People and Culture Vacancy
What you'll earn (you won't find "competitive salary” written instead of a figure on our watch!)
£50,000 per annum
What you'll receive in return (Benefits)
At Norfolk Wildlife Trust, we want to recognise and reward staff for the skills, knowledge and experience they contribute.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, summarised below:
- We pay a minimum of the Real Living Wage
- Generous leave allowance starting at 25 days, rising by one day a year to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Pension scheme (8% employer contributions and a minimum of 2% employee contributions) for eligible staff
- Life Assurance (3 x salary) and Group Income Protection Scheme (T&C’s apply)
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
- Enhanced parental pay scheme
- Paid carer's leave
- Payment of HMRC approved professional membership fees
- Learning & Development opportunities, including 5 learning days per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Free access to reserves for staff, their immediate families and up to four friends
- Staff discounts at our visitor centres, access to charity worker discounts, benefit hub and other partner discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme with free 24/7 counselling, legal & information helpline
- Mental Health First Aiders and Wellbeing Champions to support well-being at work
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Branded clothing
- A Staff Voice made up of elected representatives from each directorate
- Long Service Award scheme
- All Staff Days and social activities
- The satisfaction of working for an organisation dedicated to ensuring Norfolk’s nature is abundant, thriving and valued and working across some of the most beautiful locations in the county.
CIPD Requirement
Email Contact for candidates
Closing Date
Established in 1926, Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading conservation charity, proud to have been protecting and restoring Norfolk’s nature for over a century. We care for more than 60 nature reserves rich in reedbeds, heath and woodland that nurture Norfolk’s rarest species; we are working with others across Norfolk to create a landscape that is teeming with life; and we are cultivating a county that is home to healthy communities who have access to nature and are inspired and enabled to help wildlife thrive.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is part of the national movement of Wildlife Trusts. We are supported by over 41,000 members and work alongside a wide variety of partners, funders and communities who all share our ambitions to create a wilder Norfolk for all.