The role involves carefully balancing multiple objectives, including conserving wildlife and biodiversity, supplying sustainable, home-grown timber, and ensuring forests remain welcoming and accessible for people to enjoy.
Ensuring forest plans are UKFS compliant and that Forestry England maintains its UKWAS certification is also an important part of Forest Planner’s responsibilities.
Forest Planners consult widely, both internally and with external stakeholders and partners, to gather expertise, build support, and meet statutory requirements, such as the protection of scheduled monuments and designated sites.
They are also responsible for maintaining accurate data systems and use a range of digital tools, including GIS and standard office software, to underpin both operational and longer-term planning work.
Forestry England’s Central District covers an area from Liverpool, across to Hull and down to Bedfordshire.
As Forest Planner you will work across Central England, helping to deliver our goals for biodiversity, forest resilience, timber production and more.
You’ll be supported with tailored development and training, opportunities for coaching and mentoring, and you will sit within a wider national network of forest planning specialists.
You can expect to spend around a quarter of your time outdoors, often working on your own.
You will usually be expected to manage your own time to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collect and verify data relating to Forest Plan areas to inform the forest planning process.
Design and prescribe long term forest management which delivers resilient forests in industry best practice Forest Plans ensuring that Forestry England land is managed for people, wildlife and timber.
Communicating, consulting and consensus building with a wide range of Forestry England staff, statutory and non-governmental organisations to ensure proposed plans are in compliance with policies, UK Woodland Assurance Standard and UK Forest Standard.
Monitor and report on progress with delivery.
Data, mapping and monitoring
- Interrogate and manage of Geographic information Systems.
Provide support in areas of data analysis to inform business decisions, including timber production and long-term financial models.
Undertake forest surveys to improve data and maintain monitoring programme.
Operational support
- Support the district team in areas of survey, data management and mapping to support forest operational planning to ensure all opportunities and constraints are fully considered.
Provide support to colleagues in areas of specialism such as UKWAS, regulatory approvals, GIS, and production forecasting as training and skills allow.
Champion high standards of health and safety within the team resource, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and guidance.
Project management
- Project manage a range of small to medium-sized projects related to forest planning, biodiversity, and forest resilience programmes, including project planning and the management of delegated budgets.
Contribute to other project teams as a forest planning specialist.
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