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England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
£36,823.5 per year
Full-time
Contract (Fixed Term Contract until March 2027)
Job description
The Woodland Trust is looking for a Funded Projects Officer to aid the success of our project delivery.
The Role:
• Aid the successful delivery of projects through the development of realistic project budgets that inform internal decision-making and strengthen funding applications.
• Monitor income and expenditure against approved budgets, highlight risks and implications, and help ensure the Trust remains in a healthy financial position.
• Maximise grant income through organised grant claims, good funder relations and effective negotiations.
• Report on restricted income within projects, feeding into budgets, forecasts and year end requirements.
• Manage complicated funding packages, whilst avoiding double funding, and coordinate claims and reports for multi partner projects.
• Ensure compliance with funder, Trust and statutory requirements, including VAT, procurement and funded-project guidance.
• Produce financial and written reports for internal decision-making and for updating funders, project teams, management and senior leaders.
• This is a hybrid position with a mix of home working, and from our head office in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Head office attendance would be required no more than once a month on average.
• This is a fixed term contract until March 2027.
The Candidate:
• A confident communicator able to listen, interpret, challenge, influence and explain complex financial principles to non-experts.
• Experienced in the development, production and monitoring of project budgets, including analysing implications, risks and assumptions.
• Skilled in project management, delivery and grant management, ideally across multiple projects at any given time.
• Able to develop and deliver high quality numerical and written reports, ensuring accuracy and spotting potential risks.
• An understanding of funder rules, requirements and funding opportunities, maintaining good working relationships with funders.
• Able to consider the impacts and implications of projects on Trust budgets, resources and funds, contributing to accurate reforecasting.
• Experience working in a similar role or fundraising-related role in the charity sector would be advantageous.
Benefits and Wellbeing:
Joining our team means you’ll be a big part of tackling environmental and climate issues. We take good care of our staff, offering support and training opportunities. We also offer:
• Enhanced Employer Pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible & Hybrid Working Options
• Generous Annual Leave - 25 Days Plus Bank Holidays (pro rata’d for part-time)
• Buy and Sell Holiday Scheme
• Enhanced Parental Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
About Us:
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity. We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
To achieve our vision of a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature, we need to better reflect society and the communities we work in. All people, no matter their background, identity, ability, or circumstance, should benefit from trees.
People of colour and disabled people are currently under-represented across the environment and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we particularly encourage you to apply.
Please contact us to discuss any additional support or adjustments you may need to complete your application.
Application Advice:
For fairness we keep our candidates’ personal details hidden from the hiring managers, and we
Make sure that your Personal Statement clearly shows how your skills and knowledge link to the specifications in the job description and you share with us your passion for the role. Even if you don't meet every requirement of the role, we would encourage you to apply.
Acceptable Use - Artificial Intelligence (AI):
We understand that candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their job applications-for example, to help structure or edit written responses. We welcome the use of AI in this way, particularly where it helps improve accessibility, such as for neurodivergent applicants. However, we ask that any information submitted reflects your own experience, skills and understanding. During interviews, candidates are expected to respond independently without the use of AI tools.
Apply Now:
If you're ready to make a difference and grow with us, send in your application today. We might close the job opening early if we get a lot of applications, so it's a good idea to apply soon. If we do close the advert early, and you have an application in process, we will email you prior to closing to give you time to complete.
1st stage interviews are to be held via MS Teams on June 23rd & 24th, with 2nd stages on June 25th.
Organisation
Posted on: 01 June 2026
Closing date: 21 June 2026 at 23:30
Tags: Finance, Fundraising, Compliance / Quality
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Woking, Surrey (Hybrid)
Surrey
£31,394 per year + excellent benefits
Full-time
Permanent
Job description
Legacy Administration Coordinator
£31,394pa + Excellent benefits
Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL / Hybrid Working (minimum 40% in person collaboration per month)
Join us at WWF-UK – Legacy Administration Coordinator
About the role
We’re excited to be recruiting a Legacy Administration Coordinator, to join WWF-UK's Legacy Management team and help ensure that gifts left for WWF-UK in wills are administered with care, professionalism and attention to detail.
Legacies play a vital role in supporting WWF-UK's work, representing around a quarter of WWF-UK's income and helping to fund long-term action for nature and climate.
As Legacy Administration Coordinator, you'll play an important role in supporting the administration of legacy gifts, working with solicitors, executors, supporters and colleagues to ensure cases are managed accurately, sensitively and efficiently.
This is a varied role combining administration, relationship management and financial processes. You'll help maintain accurate records, support legacy case administration and act as an important point of contact for a wide range of enquiries. Along the way, you'll build relationships with legal professionals, supporters and colleagues across WWF-UK while helping to ensure that every gift is managed in line with both the wishes of the supporter and WWF-UK's responsibilities as a charity.
Skills and experience
You’ll bring the skills and experience needed to succeed in this role, including:
Essential
· Experience working in an administrative, legal, charity or financial environment
· Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities accurately and efficiently
· Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain high standards of record keeping and administration
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of people
· Ability to communicate sensitively and professionally in situations that may involve bereavement or other personal circumstances
· Good financial literacy and confidence working with financial information and records
· Experience using databases and Microsoft Office applications
· Ability to work independently, use initiative and make sound day-to-day decisions
· Strong time management and prioritisation skills
· Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion and good judgement
· Collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively as part of and in support of a team
Desirable
· Experience working within legacy administration, probate, wills or estate administration
· Knowledge of probate processes and the administration of estates
· Experience working within a charity environment
· Experience working with solicitors, executors or legal professionals
· Experience using legacy or fundraising databases, ideally FirstClass4
· Understanding of legacy fundraising and supporter stewardship
What we offer
We believe in rewarding our team with more than just a salary. Here’s what you can expect:
• Annual leave starting at 26 days a year pro-rated, rising one day each year to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options, to support your work life balance
• 5% employer contribution to pension, rising to 10% with employee contribution
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow
• Regular wellbeing initiatives to support your health and happiness.
This is a UK based contract, and you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer sponsorship and any offer of employment will be subject to evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.
This role is hybrid with a minimum 40% of your contracted hours spent at our beautiful UK head office, the Living Planet Centre in Woking, Surrey, where you’ll hot desk among trees and gardens.
About WWF-UK
We're a global conservation charity with millions of supporters and hundreds of projects around the world.
At WWF-UK, we’re bringing our world back to life. Protecting what’s left isn’t enough. We’re racing to restore nature and prevent catastrophic climate change. And it’s a race we can win with everyone’s help.
We’re courageous, passionate, and driven by science. For more than 60 years we’ve been at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife and the natural world. We work with integrity, collaboration and deep respect for those we partner with.
How to apply
Click the link to apply via our website. You’ll be asked to complete an application form and upload your CV and a supporting statement that tells us why you’ll be a great addition to WWF-UK.
Application closing date - 21/06/2026
Our Diversity Promise to You
At the heart of our mission is a simple truth: the planet needs everyone. That means you - in all your uniqueness, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or how you choose to express yourself.
We don’t do stereotypes. We work together with purpose, driven by passion and enhanced by respect, courage, and integrity. We pull together from all walks of life to fight for a better future, and we want you to feel supported every step of the way.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.
So, if there’s anything we can do to make your application or interview experience more comfortable or accessible, just give our Talent Acquisition Team a shout via our website.
Safeguarding Commitment
Just as we celebrate diversity in all its forms, we are equally dedicated to creating a safe environment for every person we work with or encounter.
Our commitment extends to children, adults at risk, and individuals experiencing any form of vulnerability, whether temporary or permanent.
We proudly stand behind CAPSEAH (Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment) and put this commitment into action through clear policies, thorough training, and recruitment checks tailored to each role, which may include external vetting.
If you ever have a concern, however big or small, know that there are confidential channels ready to support you at WWF-UK. We promise to respond promptly and with care, because protecting every individual is at the heart of everything we do.
Organisation
Posted on: 05 June 2026
Closing date: 21 June 2026 at 15:22
Tags: Administration, Advice / Information, Finance, Legal / Law, Operations, Conservation, Environment / Animal, Wildlife, Direct / Supporters, Individual Giving, Legacy
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