Department: Woodland Operations
Salary: Circa £30,000 plus car
Location: Home based in South-East England
Hours of Work: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week
Reporting To: Senior Woodland Creation Adviser (England)
Closing date: 18 April 2010
Summary of Job:
To deliver woodland creation on land outside the Woodland Trust estate. You will do this through developing partnerships and delivering on the ground advice.
Duties:
- To identify and prioritise prospective partners/landowners, creating opportunities to reach and inspire them
- To devise compelling, tailored proposals to secure the support and practical action from such partners.
- To support the central woodland creation team in generating contacts and providing advice.
- To liaise with the partnership/fundraising teams and provide technical advice where it will deliver significant woodland creation opportunities.
- To work with fundraising staff and regional managers to manage relationships with major partners and funders including Forestry Commission, landowner organisations and gain their commitment to supporting native woodland creation.
- To build relationships with influential individuals who will support, advise on and act as ambassadors for our aspiration to double native woodland cover.
- To establish and build relationships with key individuals in the public and private sector.
- To professionally account manage all such relationships including effective internal communication to the Senior Woodland Creation adviser (England), UK Woodland Creation team, regional managers and fundraising teams
- To devise, partner and where appropriate support initiatives which meet the trust’s needs, e.g landscape scale projects or other woodland creation projects
- To harness the support and services of external intermediaries, local initiatives and other organisations.
- To keep up to date with developments in farming practice, regulation and grants and advise the Trust on their potential impact
- To encourage private landowners to offer opportunities for public involvement through tree planting
- To achieve woodland creation and contact targets as set by the line manager and corporate plans
Qualities Required:
- Professional, Business like, demonstrating excellent planning, organisational and customer focussed skills. Strongly self motivated.
- Results driven, able to prioritise and act with tenacity and enthusiasm to achieve goals
- Communication, Proven communication skills, both verbal and written, and the confidence to represent the WT, both internally and externally, in a professional, competent and positive manner
- Inspiring, able to engage and inspire others.
- Strongly self motivated, with the drive to motivate others.
- Commercially aware you will be able to deliver good value for money from all operations and understand the need to balance the organisational benefits of operations against the costs of their delivery. You will be able to act with initiative and identify opportunities that will deliver trust aims cost effectively
- Innovative - You will be innovative and able demonstrate an ability to create and deliver new ideas that further the trusts aims across its estate.
Knowledge required:
- Knowledge: an understanding of the contribution that woodland can make in farming systems and on lands in public ownership. An understanding of the role that trees and woodland can play in carbon management. A good understanding of national and regional environment and land use policies
- IT literate, preferably with MS Office experience.
Experience Required:
- Leadership: a proven ability to lead and manage projects.
- Experience: a record of achievement in working with and in the development and management of partnerships involving land management and landowners. A proven ability to achieve delivery through others, including contractors, volunteers, professional consultants and project staff.
- Woodland creation experience: expertise in techniques for native woodland creation, native woodland designs for conservation and economic objectives and experience of managing woodland creation sites. Experience of financial and practical issues related to woodland creation.
- Communication: proven communication skills, both verbal and written, and the confidence to represent the WT, both internally and externally, in a professional, competent and positive manner. Previous experience in public facing communications including for example public consultation, media work, lobbying and event management is particularly important
Qualification Required:
- Qualified to HND/degree level in forestry, land management or related field is desirable
A full driving licence and ability to undertake travel across a wide area, sometimes to remote locations. Regular overnight stays will be required.
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.
This post is home based. You will be expected to provide a suitable environment in which to create an office within your region. All necessary office equipment will be provided.
Provisional interview date: 7 May 2010
Interviews to be held in Grantham