Wild Area Officer

Wild Area Officer (Wild Ingoldsby)

Salary – £33,854

Hours – 37 hours per week

Contract type – 3 year fixed term, with possibility of extension or permanency

Location – Central England Forest District; office at either Sherwood Pines (NG21 9JL), Market Rasen (LN8 3RQ) or Fineshade (NN17 3BB). hybrid home working available. Travel across England required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development and delivery of one or more wild area projects, starting with Wild Ingoldsby, through concept and definition stages and to implementation.
• Coordinate project activities to bring the concept of wild areas to life at scale and pace, meeting Forestry England’s nature‑recovery ambitions.
• Collaborate across five principal focus areas of Forestry England’s Biodiversity Plan to restore resilient biodiversity in the nation’s forests.
• Ensure effective project management and stakeholder engagement to deliver outcomes on time and to specification.

Required Behaviours

• Seeing the big picture
• Delivering at pace
• Working together
• Making effective decisions

Benefits

• Contributory pension – Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% toward the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
• 25 days holiday per year, increasing by one day for each year of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays.
• Access to STaR employee benefits scheme (discounts on supermarket shopping, travel, home goods, mobile phones, health and car insurance, holidays, gym, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app).
• Free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and career development including professional development support and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Eligibility — The role is part of the Civil Service. Candidates should meet the minimum selection criteria and have the ability to provide clear spoken English as required by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.

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