Forests Impact and Insights Lead

Application deadline: Friday 3 April 2026– 23:59 BST/GMT
Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid working, minimum one day per week in Cambridge)

Full-time: 35 hours per week
Contract: Open-ended

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 per annum depending on skills/experience, plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave: 25 days pro rata in year 1, increasing by 1 day p/a to 28 days

We’re BirdLife International, the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet. We exist to give one voice to nature, and to unite and strengthen conservation across borders.

We are looking for a Forests Impact and Insights Lead to play a key role in delivering the strategy of BirdLife’s Global Forests Programme. In this role, you will be coordinating and overseeing the design and development of impact monitoring and data management systems to track, visualize, and report on a portfolio of sustainable forest finance projects underway.

How you will do this:

• Assessing the needs for forest conservation and restoration impact monitoring and reporting.

• Defining a scope of work and specifications for the tools and systems needed.

• Prioritisation and phasing of development within budget and organisational capacity.

• Selecting and overseeing procurement, and any customisation of tools/systems with vendors.

• Coordinating testing, training and rollout with users including BirdLife International staff and Partners.

• Identifying further opportunities for strengthening systems, budget requirements for that work, and assisting with related fundraising efforts.

• Helping to establish a framework of standardised metrics.

• Coordinating and overseeing the design of a Reporting Dashboard and Digital Information Management Platform.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this role you’ll need to be an experienced product manager for data management systems, websites, apps or other related technologies. You should have knowledge of the current standards, technologies and systems related to biodiversity, climate and socioeconomic impact data collection. You will also need a strong understanding of data requirements for the purpose of reporting on outcomes-based funding and finance.

Successful applicants will be organised with great attention to detail, strong communication skills and a strategic vision to design processes and deliver outputs.

See the full job description here.

Some of our benefits:

• We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.

• A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’

• A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.

• Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.

• Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.

• Cycle to work scheme.

• Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We know that everyone’s needs are different. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process to help you shine, just let us know, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Please note: under the UK Government criteria this role will not be eligible for Visa Sponsorship, unless you meet the exception criteria detailed here: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/when-you-can-be-paid-less

Interviews: Interviews will be held during w/c 13 and 20 April 2026.