Senior Farm Advisor (Nature Restoration)

Position Abstract

Job Title: Senior Farm Advisor (Nature Restoration)
Job Location: House primarily based (the place holder should reside throughout the Bristol Avon catchment area), with frequent journey and website
visits all through the catchment
Contract: Everlasting.
Hours: Full time, 5 days per week (40 hours per week / 1 FTE). The function could
generally require night and weekend work. Half time hours could also be thought-about
Wage: £39,000 professional rata
Vacation: 25 days per yr professional rata (along with financial institution and public holidays)
Line Report: to Head of Operations
Utility cut-off date: Tuesday thirtieth April

Transient

At Bristol Avon Rivers Belief (BART), we work in partnership with landowners, companies,
neighborhood teams, native authorities, and their advisers for the pure surroundings to establish
and ship interventions to make our catchment richer and extra resilient to pressures.

We’re in search of an individual to affix our increasing group to establish habitats and species value
defending—establish alternatives for habitat creation, enlargement, and enchancment by
sustainable land administration throughout the Bristol Avon catchment —from the headwaters of
sub-catchments, proper all the way down to the lowland floodplains of North Somerset and the Severn Vale.

The Senior Farm Advisor will coordinate and oversee a “Farmer-led Nature Restoration Initiative”
within the Chew Valley and Cam and Wellow catchments in Tub and Northeast Somerset forming a
central workstream of this place. The coordination of those farm clusters, which can be
facilitated by the Bristol Avon Rivers Belief (BART), will act as a formalised technique of
interacting and dealing along with landowners and farmers on the catchment scale, addressing
a essential barrier to unlocking funding for nature’s restoration and encourage sustainable
agriculture in precedence landscapes. To be able to implement programmes on the bottom, the undertaking
features a capital grant scheme. The Senior Farm Advisor will play a central function in
facilitating the appliance course of working with a undertaking governing board and aiding
landowners in creating proposals.

This new function is a key addition to our group, who concentrate on fixing environmental issues with
nature-based options. Working to help and advise colleagues, you can be out within the subject
conducting surveys, walkovers, and website visits—to assist each collect proof of points and construct
habitat enchancment tasks that provide a number of advantages to vital ecosystem companies such
as pure flood administration, carbon seize and storage, and water stewardship to help a
biodiverse and resilient catchment. Along with this, the Senior Farm Advisor function will
contain the event of entire farm plans, desk primarily based work to proceed on from alternatives
mentioned within the subject, together with the manufacturing of define designs permitting the Belief to take
plans ahead to supply part. This function will contain the administration and oversight of sure
tasks and their budgets, in addition to finishing grant purposes with landowners, and
subsequently the function will contain a superb proportion of working from house in addition to being out in
the sphere.

This place would be the Trusts’ consultant on the West Of England Agricultural Group and
will contribute to the Belief’s rising farm advisor work, with a concentrate on scoping the supply
of wildlife pleasant agricultural recommendation and land administration, with a view to additional the Belief’s
targets to revive wildlife and join individuals with nature throughout the Bristol Avon catchment.

BART’s ambition is for our soil and water sources to be managed sustainably to allow meals
manufacturing alongside functioning ecosystems and wildlife wealthy habitats, and we try for our
native communities, decision-makers, landowners, and enterprise to work collectively to guard
and improve the well being of our rivers.

Key Tasks

To establish new landowners and farm managers that BART will help advise or help within the
administration of wildlife pleasant farming and land administration practices; with a concentrate on clusters
of farmers, and homeowners of enormous estates, and dealing in our precedence catchments alongside
companions and different eNGO’s.

To establish new alternatives for BART to increase its landowner engagement work, akin to:

• Set up and / or partake in farmer Clusters (e.g. through facilitation fund) to carry
  farmers, and different land managers collectively to work cooperatively and prioritise actions to
  enhance the native pure surroundings, at a panorama scale.
• Create partnerships with landowners, NGOs and different stakeholders for panorama scale
  wildlife interventions on privately owned land.
• Supporting farm companies to enter authorities schemes (e.g., Countryside Stewardship,
  Woodland Administration, and the brand new Environmental Land Administration Scheme (ELMS), or environmental
  assurance schemes (e.g., Linking Atmosphere And Farming (LEAF) and different capital grant schemes
  which encourage environmentally delicate observe.
• Endeavor farm surveys (for wildlife and pure capital) and creating whole-farm plans
  aimed to ship environmental items (e.g., carbon, soil, wildlife advantages, for the brand new ELMS).
  Working intently and supporting BART’s ecologists.
• Endeavor land administration on farms to ship environmental items and improve wildlife on
  agricultural land.

An instance working week may be very various and will contain organising farm occasions, endeavor
farm walkover surveys to establish alternatives for panorama restoration, monitoring farm trials,
main farm cluster teams, in addition to desk-based parts of writing entire farm plans,
managing undertaking budgets, figuring out funding routes and creating grant funding purposes
to help farmers in taking motion.

The place you’ll be working

BART is a charitable organisation focussed on defending and enhancing rivers and waterways
throughout the Bristol Avon Catchment. We function throughout North Somerset, Bristol, South
Gloucestershire, Tub and Northeast Somerset and Wiltshire, working in partnership with the
Atmosphere Company, native authorities, the water business, personal landowners and their
tenants, charitable organisations, and neighborhood curiosity teams. You’ll be working throughout
the vary of landscapes and habitats within the Bristol Avon catchment. There can be a mixture of
working from house and throughout the river catchment.

Who we’re in search of

BART is in search of a candidate with a sound understanding of agricultural land administration from
each a yard infrastructure and compliance perspective in addition to a sound understanding of
environmental measures akin to these included inside Countryside Stewardship and the
Sustainable Farming Incentive. You’ll have wonderful communication expertise and a all the way down to earth
strategy in the direction of working with individuals. You’ll be self-motivated and in a position to work throughout a
variety of environments together with from house, can handle competing deadlines, and ship duties
to a excessive commonplace and supply line administration to BART’s Farm Advisor. You have to have a clear
full UK driving licence and have entry to a automobile.

Above all, you can be dedicated to our agenda as a Belief, what we stand for, and what we wish
to attain.

Individual Specification

Expertise of:

• Demonstrating management and experience in wildlife pleasant agricultural recommendation and land
  administration.

Information and Understanding of:

• Present environmental laws, together with Biodiversity Internet Achieve, Precedence Habitats, and
  Precedence Species Important.
• Ecosystem items and companies Important.
• Metrics for quantifying and reporting panorama modifications (e.g. woodland carbon code,
  peatland carbon code) Fascinating.
• Strategic partnership improvement and relationship administration Fascinating.

Abilities and {Qualifications}

Important

• Diploma or equal degree of expertise in agriculture, or one other related environmental
  self-discipline.
• Minimal of 4 years’ expertise in delivering agricultural recommendation and/or administration.
• Expertise in endeavor land administration on agricultural land to ship environmental
  items and improve wildlife.
• Wonderful communication expertise, with a monitor file of constructing and sustaining
  relationships with exterior companions.
• A capability to work beneath strain, and expertise of managing personal workload with minimal
  supervision while assembly deadlines.
• Wonderful IT expertise particularly with Microsoft Workplace.
• A present UK-valid driving licence.

Fascinating

• Expertise in facilitating Farmer Clusters, and/or supporting farm companies enter
  countryside stewardship schemes.
• Line administration expertise. Expertise of managing tasks and budgets.
• Related skilled qualification (RICTS/FACTS/BASIS).
• Mapping utilizing LandApp, GIS, and others Fascinating.
• Presenting environmental info to develop compelling proof for change.
• Expertise in line administration of employees as this function will oversee 1 or extra Farm Advisor’s.

Private Qualities

• Wonderful organisational expertise/self-discipline and the flexibility to plan, monitor, ship and
  consider work Important.
• Capacity to prioritise and ship work to related requirements and tight deadlines Important.
• Capacity to work beneath personal initiative, and as half of a bigger, cross-functional group
  Important.
• Amenable and pleasant in the direction of colleagues and exterior events. Wonderful at constructing
  rapport and belief amongst farmers and land managers Important.
• Revolutionary and applies inventive thought to develop new initiatives and drawback fixing
  Fascinating.

Customary Phrases & Circumstances

Wage: £39,000 professional rata. Salaries are paid every month by financial institution switch.

Hours: The Belief operates a 40-hour working week (full time). Our core hours
of enterprise are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Contract: This place is everlasting

Flexibility: The Belief recognises the significance of a powerful work-life steadiness
and actively promotes this. The Belief, the place potential, endeavours to fulfill the versatile working
wants of its workers. A excessive diploma of flexibility is offered to employees members in relation
to hours and site of labor. Half time work could also be thought-about.

Holidays: 25 days per yr (along with financial institution and public holidays). (Professional
rata for half time roles)

Pensions: Chances are you’ll be eligible to be auto enrolled to the Rivers Belief Group
Pension Plan with Royal London which gives an employer contribution of 9%.

Discover Interval: One month following passable completion of a 6-month
probationary interval.

Place of Work: The place holder should reside throughout the Bristol Avon catchment area. House
workplace primarily based, with journey throughout the catchment as required.

Journey: Public transport is inspired the place potential. Enterprise mileage is
claimed by our expense’s process. The candidate should have entry to a automobile for
enterprise functions and a clear driving license.

Time limit: The cut-off date for purposes for this function is Tuesday thirtieth April.

Interviews: Interviews can be held utilizing video conferencing week commencing Monday sixth Could.

Apply

To use please e mail your CV and a overlaying letter detailing your expertise related to the
function to [email protected] earlier than the
cut-off date.

We stay up for receiving your utility.

If you need a casual dialog about this function, or if you need extra
info, please contact us at: [email protected] and we’ll
prepare a handy time for a dialogue.