Department: Woodland Operations
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum
Location: Grantham
Hours of Work: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week
Reporting To: Operations Director
Closing date: 25 April 2010
Summary of Job:
To lead and drive forward The Trust’s ambitious woodland creation aspirations beyond its own estate. To be our woodland creation champion; inspiring, coordinating and ensuring delivery of a variety of woodland creation initiatives across the Trust.
Duties:
- Leading and inspiring the trust to deliver its woodland creation aspirations
- Developing a newly created team at Head Office whose key roles will be to...
- Develop, test and launch new fundable and innovative ideas that will deliver more new woodlands on land outside trust ownership
- Project manage the delivery and coordination of existing new ideas such as our ‘Morewoods’ project which is projected to deliver 500 ha of new woodland in 2010
- Promoting new ideas both within and outside the Trust
- Coordinating our woodland creation activities across a variety of trust-wide functions including operations, public affairs, communications and public engagement and ensuring that the Woodland Creation element of our strategic plan is delivered at a UK level
- To promote woodland creation to a variety of audiences and through a variety of means especially the media and web. In particular drive woodland creation enquiries up so that we can develop new opportunities to plant
- To work with, but not directly manage, our newly created woodland creation partnership and advisory teams and in particular ensure that opportunities are developed, maintained and delivered
- Ensuring effective communication on woodland creation issues throughout the Trust
- To be the key source of information on all issues relating to woodland creation outside our estate
- To provide reports for Management team and Board as appropriate
Qualities Required:
- An Inspirational leader you will have the ability to persuade both those outside and inside the trust giving reasoned arguments to deliver more woodland creation.
- An excellent networker with an ability to work in a matrix structure where delivery will be through others rather than necessarily those you directly line manage
- Proven communicator with excellent verbal and communication skills and an ability to adapt your style to meet the needs of the audience.
- An excellent strategic thinker able to input to Board level when required
- Excellent team working skills with an ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team. Understanding of the requirements for team building and development
- A flexible approach and used to working with a variety of groups and individuals adapting your style accordingly
- An excellent planner who is able to prioritise for themselves and others
- An energetic self starter used to promoting their ideas and projects
Experience Required:
- Proven experience in leading complex initiatives across a number of teams in a large or medium sized business
- Demonstrated ability to lead organisation wide change in a complex business
- Capable of bridging the gap between forestry, marketing and communication skills
- An experienced manager you will be able to set stiff targets and hold people to account, both those who you manage and those who you need to influence
Knowledge required:
- An understanding of land based issues
The post holder is expected to demonstrate alignment to, and willingness to support, the organisation's purpose and aims and commitment to its values and behaviours
The list of tasks shown above is not exclusive nor does their order indicate the priority attached to them. The job holder may, therefore, be required to perform other duties which may reasonably be assigned to them by their manager or supervisor.
We all have a duty to ensure that our acts or omissions at work do not impact on the health and safety of others and ourselves and that we abide by any safety measures as directed and in accordance with the Woodland Trust Health & Safety Policy.
Provisional interview dates: w/c 10 May 2010
Interviews to be held in Grantham