Land Advice Service Manager
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The vacancy
Full Time, 35 Hours Per Week
Permanent
Closing Date for Applications: 21st June 2022
First Interview: 30th June 2022
Are you looking for a new challenge and the chance to work for one of the UK’s best-loved nature charities? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking for someone to help bring about the recovery of nature; someone who has a deep understanding of the way our land is managed and is passionate about wildlife; is a great organiser and project manager; and is a confident and personable communicator to take people with you. We need you to develop a new service for the Wildlife Trusts – a coordinated land management advice service that links together hundreds of land advisors across England and Wales into a coherent force for nature’s recovery.
Who are we
The Wildlife Trusts is a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who share a set of common beliefs. It has more than of 850,000 members, including 200,000 junior members, 38,000 volunteers and 2,800 staff across the UK across 46 locally independent Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). We work in every part of the UK, on Alderney and the Isle of Man. The movement’s central charity RSWT leads the development of the movement and represents the interests of the movement whenever a strong united voice is required. Together, the 46 Trusts and the central charity are known as The Wildlife Trusts.
About this role
The Wildlife Trusts work to a collective framework – Strategy 2030. At its heart is an ambition to see nature recover. This requires a farming system that enhances rather than destroys wildlife. Land management advice is essential to achieve regenerative farming.
Many Wildlife Trusts already operate land management advice services: 276 full time equivalent advisers, engaging with nearly 3,000 farmers across 2,500 ha of land. Advice is run as local and separate services by each Wildlife Trust. It is not enough for nature’s recovery. Analysis concluded that this advice could be extended but capacity is fragmented, skills distribution patchy, and co-ordination weak. To resolve these issues and to scale up advice services, we aim to coordinate, extend and improve these services. This post lies at the heart of that intent.
About you
You will be highly organised and an adept project manager. You will be people-oriented, thriving on working alongside colleagues that are widely dispersed across England and Wales. You will have deep experience of land management and understand the need for land managers to receive high quality useful advice so that they can initiate nature’s recovery on the land they manage. You will be comfortable with business planning to help Wildlife Trusts to professionalise and expand their land management advice services.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgemental and are inclusive. We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible. This role maybe subject to a DBS check.
Who we are
We need nature and it needs us. We’re here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. We’re helping to make life better – for wildlife, for people, and for future generations.
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of 870,000 members, 38,000 volunteers, and 2,800 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with an ambitious new strategy in development setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live.
The next 10 years will be critical in determining what kind of world we will all live in. We need to reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale as a matter of urgency if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. This will require big, bold changes in the way we think and operate, and the development of a strong, collaborative culture. It will require key stakeholders and the public to take action for nature’s recovery.
We want our people to be as diverse as society, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
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