Field Manager
| Posting date: | 17 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,135 to £42,133 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2025 |
| Location: | Penrith |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 401124/1 |
Summary
Never has there been a more important time for trees and forests to help tackle the climate emergency and provide a much-needed sanctuary for people and wildlife.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Forestry Commission have a joint Nature for Climate tree programme for England, to support the forestry sector, farmers, landowners, and communities in the delivery of these ambitions.
Forestry Commission leads the delivery of the following parts of the tree planting programme:
- sector capacity
- planting on private land
- promotion and engagement
Field Team Managers coordinate and lead the areas Woodland Officers, Woodland Creation Officers and Regulation and Incentive Support Officers. These roles help deliver the Forest Services mission to expand, protect, improve and connect woodlands across the area and ensuring the effective use of Forestry Commission incentives and regulations.
If you are passionate about the role of forestry in creating a better future for England, and want to play a key part in that, we want to hear from you!
Our staff engagement levels are consistently well above the Civil Service average and staff turnover is well below. We value people, we look after them, and we will look after you. We hope you will join us for the challenge.
The Forestry Commission are the government’s forestry experts, we do this by providing policy advice to government and leading delivery through regulation, incentives and protecting tree health.
The Field Team Manager role, as part of Forest Services, is responsible for leading an area based team of Woodland Officers to ensure the effective coordination of our incentives and regulatory activities. Field Team Managers play a critical role in delivering a step change in our woodland creation levels, and in supporting the woodland management activity across the area. This includes working closely with Natural England, Environment Agency, Rural Payments Agency, Forestry England and Forestry Commission Admin Hubs.
This role is based in the Northwest of the Northwest and West Midlands area, almost entirely in Cumbria. The successful candidate will be expected to use our Penrith office as their parent office. The successful candidate will have a blended working approach between home and the office. This post reports to the Northwest Partnership and Expertise Manager (Jake Thompson) who is based at Delamere.
Responsibilities
- Team working and Managing People – Provide leadership and support to the Woodland Officers, Woodland Creation Officers, Regulation and Incentive Support Officers and Development Woodland Officers to ensure the effective delivery of our incentives and regulatory programmes. The Field Team Manager will undertake recruitment and induction of Woodland Officers and their development.
- Nature for Climate Fund Tree Programme – Play a key role in supporting the operational delivery of the Tree Programme to deliver the Governments woodland creation ambition. This includes work to help promote the opportunities of the wider programme and working with delivery partners.
- Manage Forestry Regulation and Tree Health – Ensure our regulatory work meets the UK Forestry Standard and is completed within the required timescales. Ensure tree felling within the responsible area is carried out in accordance with The Forestry Act (1967). Respond to tree health issues and ensure the effective delivery of our regulatory requirements. Work with Plant Health Forestry colleagues to respond to pest and disease outbreaks.
- Manage Incentives – Oversee the delivery of incentives across the area through supporting Woodland Officers and partners by building positive working relationships to ensure the effective promotion and delivery of our incentives programme. Including seeking support from technical specialists to process complex cases and influencing the evolution of new initiatives to best deliver government forestry policy.
- Engaging with stakeholders and Partnership Working - Work with the Area Management Team to identify the partnerships to engage in order to deliver appropriate sector support in identified priority areas. Developing and maintaining good working relationships with advisers and stakeholders.
- Vision and Culture – Support the overall work of the team to ensure the effective delivery of our vision and culture ambition and to help lead on the development of a proactive H&S culture. Play an active role in the wider work of the team including supporting Management and Area Team Meetings.
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