Head of Recreation and Engagement (West Forest District)
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £45,260 to £49,062 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2024 |
| Location: | Gloucestershire, South West England |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358327 |
Summary
Job description
The Head of Recreation and Engagement is a key member of the district's senior leadership team. This senior role is responsible for the planning, implementation and monitoring or our visitor services (recreation) and engagement activities. Planning in this context covers:
Strategic planning - supporting each Forest Centre manager and their team to develop long and medium term plans for their sites in tandem with the organisation's strategic direction, as set out in 'Growing the Future', Forestry England's 5-year plan.
Encourage review and renewal of the Forest Centre Business Plans each year to encompass change and highlight short term deliverables that help us achieve our vision and goals in locally relevant ways.
Engage with the annual review and revision of the district's communication plan to ensure we are using our marketing and communications resources efficiently to both market our Forest Centres, and tell our story, the story of sustainable forestry and our role in tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis.
Drawing together of, and getting agreement on, and then communication of the business plan, and revision of the long-term financial plans on an annual basis.
A key [one-off] deliverable is the drawing together of a recreation strategy for the Forest of Dean evolved from the 'Our Shared Forest' umbrella management plan that was itself drawn together through extensive stakeholder engagement and consultation in 2019.
Monitoring of our business, understanding how the business is operating and where improvements can / need to be made is an essential part of the role. This is both financial monitoring, monitoring in-year spend against agreed plans and projects and monitoring income - and taking corrective action when / where necessary. Monitoring of health and safety, having safe systems of work, and a proactive approach to a safety first culture is also a key role for this post. Accident (and near-miss) investigation, understand and act upon learning from accident (and near-miss) investigations is very important across our whole business, not least in respect to member of public accidents, liability claims and safeguarding matters.
The Head of Recreation & Engagement is an important leadership role, and will directly line manage the Operations Manager - Recreation, Operations Manager - Engagement, and the three Area Managers. The wider team extends to some 40 people, brigaded across the 5 Forest Centre teams, the Marketing & Communications team, and learning / community team. The Area Managers are new roles that support our wider Forestry delivery and line manage the beat foresters (who are part of the Forestry & Land Management team), this hybrid working is intended to provide improved business efficiencies whilst supporting greater integration between our forestry delivery and visitor services / engagement delivery. The post holder will champion exemplary approaches to people management, fostering a learning culture whilst also ensuring systems and processes are in place, and understood, for effective business controls.
The Head of Recreation and Engagement is a key member of the district's senior leadership team. This senior role is responsible for the planning, implementation and monitoring or our visitor services (recreation) and engagement activities. Planning in this context covers:
Strategic planning - supporting each Forest Centre manager and their team to develop long and medium term plans for their sites in tandem with the organisation's strategic direction, as set out in 'Growing the Future', Forestry England's 5-year plan.
Encourage review and renewal of the Forest Centre Business Plans each year to encompass change and highlight short term deliverables that help us achieve our vision and goals in locally relevant ways.
Engage with the annual review and revision of the district's communication plan to ensure we are using our marketing and communications resources efficiently to both market our Forest Centres, and tell our story, the story of sustainable forestry and our role in tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis.
Drawing together of, and getting agreement on, and then communication of the business plan, and revision of the long-term financial plans on an annual basis.
A key [one-off] deliverable is the drawing together of a recreation strategy for the Forest of Dean evolved from the 'Our Shared Forest' umbrella management plan that was itself drawn together through extensive stakeholder engagement and consultation in 2019.
Monitoring of our business, understanding how the business is operating and where improvements can / need to be made is an essential part of the role. This is both financial monitoring, monitoring in-year spend against agreed plans and projects and monitoring income - and taking corrective action when / where necessary. Monitoring of health and safety, having safe systems of work, and a proactive approach to a safety first culture is also a key role for this post. Accident (and near-miss) investigation, understand and act upon learning from accident (and near-miss) investigations is very important across our whole business, not least in respect to member of public accidents, liability claims and safeguarding matters.
The Head of Recreation & Engagement is an important leadership role, and will directly line manage the Operations Manager - Recreation, Operations Manager - Engagement, and the three Area Managers. The wider team extends to some 40 people, brigaded across the 5 Forest Centre teams, the Marketing & Communications team, and learning / community team. The Area Managers are new roles that support our wider Forestry delivery and line manage the beat foresters (who are part of the Forestry & Land Management team), this hybrid working is intended to provide improved business efficiencies whilst supporting greater integration between our forestry delivery and visitor services / engagement delivery. The post holder will champion exemplary approaches to people management, fostering a learning culture whilst also ensuring systems and processes are in place, and understood, for effective business controls.