Peatland Action Project Support Officer

Wage: £28,488 – £33,276 (Band C) every year
Contract: Everlasting – Full Time – we’re glad to speak part-time and versatile
working
Location: Balloch, with hybrid working mannequin in place

Are you in search of an thrilling and rewarding alternative to work in one of the lovely
and scenic landscapes on the planet?

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Nationwide Park covers over 720 sq. miles of Scotland’s most interesting
countryside which welcomes over 4 million guests annually. From the gorgeous sea lochs and
rugged shoreline by means of the majestic glens and breathtaking Loch & Ben Lomond, Scotland’s
first Nationwide Park actually is a magical place.

The function:

We’ve got an thrilling alternative for a Peatland Motion Undertaking Help Officer to affix our
Nature and Land Use group to offer challenge supply and administration assist for Peatland ACTION
tasks delivered by the Nationwide Park Authority. This can be a uncommon alternative to assist safe a
constructive future for folks, nature, and local weather within the Nationwide Park by means of our work to
restore nature and cut back carbon emissions by serving to to heal broken peatlands.

With glorious organisational expertise, you should have a confirmed monitor report in challenge
administration, finances planning and monetary processes, the capability to undertake web site visits to
distant upland areas, expertise of subject survey work and liaison with land managers and
contractors.

Obligations:

• Present devoted excessive commonplace challenge supply and administration assist for tasks inside
  the Nationwide Park Authority’s peatland restoration programme together with challenge initiation,
  monitoring, and reporting, procurement and budgetary management and threat administration.
• Working inside current challenge administration methods, toolkits, and budgeting and monetary
  methods, working intently with the challenge administration and finance groups to make sure an
  organisational method.
• Guarantee efficient communication between inner and exterior groups to allow environment friendly and
  efficient finances planning, challenge supply and reporting.
• Present recommendation and steering on issues related to challenge administration, contributing to extra
  efficient challenge administration practises throughout the Nationwide Park Authority.
• Planning and commissioning surveys together with peat depth, breeding birds and habitat varieties
  to assist the event of peatland restoration tasks.
• Enterprise subject work and web site visits on distant upland websites to contribute to surveys and
  liaison with contractors and stakeholders.
• Contributing to the availability and logistics for gear and autos for subject work.
• Help others in establishing and enabling the required partnerships and engagements to
  ship partnership tasks which obtain strategic goals.
• Undertake some other duties acceptable to the grade as required.

Who we’re in search of:

Your expertise, talents and expertise ought to embody:

• Undertaking assist expertise all through the challenge lifecycle; challenge initiation, planning,
  procurement, supply, closure, and monitoring.
• Expertise of sensible implementation of a challenge administration methodology and procedures.
• Expertise of managing contractors.
• Skill to handle a variety of duties concurrently.
• Skill to work in distant places and navigate throughout difficult upland terrain in all
  weathers.
• Efficient communication expertise, each written and verbal.
• Skill to speak successfully with stakeholders at each stage together with senior
  administration, exterior companies, contractors, members of the general public and native communities.
• HNC/HND qualification (or equal) in a land administration/ environmental
  administration/agriculture/forestry/nature conservation self-discipline, or equal expertise.

Ideally, however not important, you’ll even have:

• Direct expertise of challenge work in a rural context
• Expertise of capital challenge supply
• Expertise of land supervisor liaison
• Expertise in using Microsoft Undertaking
• Botanical, fowl, or habitat survey expertise
• Licensed UAV pilot

Who we’re and our values:

We provide versatile and distant working, with a beneficiant pension scheme and annual go away
allowance. Workers have entry to wellbeing providers and there’s a sturdy concentrate on wellbeing
all through the organisation.

Being a part of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs Nationwide Park Authority means being passionate
about what you do, working arduous to encourage and prepared the ground for others. We care about every
different and are accessible and pleasant treating one another with respect and understanding, we
take into consideration our planet with every resolution we make. Collectively, we’re the distinction.

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs Nationwide Park Authority are proud to have fun distinction.
Variety of expertise is significant in our success we would like our enterprise to be consultant to
the communities we work alongside. As an equal alternative employer, we actively encourage
candidates from a variety of people, regardless of age, incapacity, gender
reassignment, gender id and expression, marriage and civil partnership, being pregnant and
maternity, race, faith or perception, intercourse, and sexual orientation.

Cut-off date: 4 October 2023.

Interview date: w/c 16 October 2023.