Senior Land Adviser

Somerset Wildlife Trust

Senior Land Adviser

Wage: Supervisor Stage 3: £31,000 – £34,000

Contract sort: Everlasting

Working hours: Full time

Location: Somerset Wildlife Belief, County of Somerset with alternatives for
hybrid working.

We’re in search of an skilled land administration adviser to supervise the supply of land
administration recommendation and assist which is able to ship SWT’s targets for 2030 throughout Somerset by means of:

  • Proactively creating relationships and tasks with a spread of landowners and
    communities that allows land administration which stimulates nature’s restoration, maximises
    nature-based options provision, develops new avenues of sustainable farming programs, and
    secures a long-term financial future for land managers and farmers committing to nature
    restoration.
  • Working intently alongside our nature restoration and gross sales consultancy groups figuring out
    alternatives to fund the supply of land administration recommendation by means of rising funding
    mechanisms comparable to Environmental Land Administration Scheme, Biodiversity Web Achieve and carbon
    sequestration, alongside figuring out, enabling and delivering industrial alternatives.
  • Rising the abilities base inside Somerset Wildlife Belief and work intently with our industrial
    arm Somerset Wildlife Belief Consultancy and the Somerset Environmental Information Centre to make sure
    that we are able to present a spread of fundamental, customary and bespoke land administration advisory service
    throughout the Belief.

Key Tasks and Duties:

Management & Administration:

The Senior Land Adviser will assist the Nature Restoration Crew by supervising and line managing
the Mendip Hills Farm Facilitation Co-Ordinator and Mendip Panorama Restoration Officer by:

  • Guaranteeing they ship clean coordination of the day-to-day working of the programmes.
  • Managing the venture price range and submission of quarterly grant claims.
  • Getting ready and writing experiences.
  • Overseeing the monitoring of the Rural Funds Supervise Company.

Duty 1: Conservation Administration

Share information and experience by:

  • Offering conservation administration recommendation and constructing sturdy relationships with a spread of
    landowners and farm advisers, by understanding farming and forestry and integrating SWT nature
    restoration recommendation inside these programs.
  • Offering experience on the restoration of land and creation of habitats to assist the
    Native Nature Restoration Community, Agri-environment scheme outcomes and nature-based options.

Duty 2: Constructing Relationships with the Land Proudly owning/ Administration
Neighborhood.

Be proactive and nurture sturdy relationships by:

  • Main on the event of latest farm cluster pilots and different group relationships that
    will encourage and allow land managers to have interaction in habitat administration, restoration and
    creation. Together with supply of wetland nature restoration networks and floodplain reconnection.
  • Constructing a complete farm strategy within the safety and growth of Native Wildlife Websites.
  • In co-ordination with SWTC Gross sales staff figuring out and the place agreed endeavor and
    facilitating focused habitat and species surveying as a part of venture improvement and
    offering detailed administration advisory experiences and venture programmes enabling nature restoration.
  • Bringing in specialist farming information to the Belief.
  • Supporting the transition of Somerset farming enterprises the place the supply of pure
    capital is taken into account alongside conventional meals and fiber manufacturing.

Duty 3: Rising the SWT Land Administration Advisory Service

Present management and grasp alternatives to develop the SWT service by:

  • Proactively looking for and creating tasks and funding regimes that can assist the
    continued funding and growth of a SWT Land Administration Advisory Service together with (however not
    restricted by): creating new Panorama Restoration Purposes, endeavor Countryside
    Stewardship purposes and administration plans, creating companies that assist nature-based
    options (e.g. nutrient mitigations) and many others.
  • Planning and delivering as required tailor-made coaching programme of workshops and
    onsite-demonstrations that cowl quite a lot of work areas together with delivering nature-based
    options, nature pleasant farming and agri-environmental scheme outcomes for landholders
    together with work on SSSIs, precedence habitats, in addition to precedence species and landscapes.

Further advantages of working for the Somerset Wildlife Belief embody:

  • 7% employer pension contribution
  • Life insurance coverage
  • An annual skilled establishment subscription
  • Versatile and agile working
  • Wellbeing assist – EAP, wellbeing champions
  • Range networks by means of RSWT/TWT
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Steady Skilled Improvement alternatives
  • Minimal 33 days of vacation (25 annual depart + financial institution holidays)
  • Energetic employees social occasions

Time limit: Monday 22 April 2024


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