Success Profile
The Success Profile below set outs the essential and desirable elements that make up the vacant position - youll be expected to demonstrate how you meet the Experience and Technical and the behaviours in your application and during your interview.
Experience
Essential:
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Knowledge of forest and land management principles and practices
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Experience of working autonomously with ability to prioritise workload.
Desirable:
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Experience of Microsoft packages including Teams;
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Experience of forestry operations or equivalent.
Technical
Essential:
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An understanding of the rural sector.
Desirable:
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Be working towards an HNC in Forestry or related Land Management or environmental subject or be willing to work toward obtaining these.
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Student, associate or professional membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF).
Behaviours
On the application form youll find four free text boxes to provide your behaviour responses. Please note, youre only required to provide evidence against the below behaviours on your application. This means that if less than four behaviours are noted, you can leave the relevant free text(s) box blank on your application.
Behaviour 1 and Lead Criteria: Managing a Quality Service
Behaviour 2: Working Together
Behaviour 3: Making Effective Decisions
Behaviour 4: Developing Self and Others
Driving licence
This role requires you to have a full UK driving licence, however, we are willing to consider any proposals that would allow you to do the job by other means.
Travel
As this role involves working with colleagues across the region, there will be regular travel involved which may include overnight stays away from home.
What we offer you
If successful, you will be entitled to a wide range of benefits, the detail of which can be found here.
Additional information
We believe its important to create an inclusive and supportive work culture, and we welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background.
Its important you complete the entire application form (where relevant) in sufficient detail this will give you the best chance of being invited for interview and/or assessment. Where a vacancy attracts a higher number of applications, only Behaviour 1 - lead criteria will be assessed at sift stage. However, it is still important that you complete the entire application form in sufficient detail, as there is no way of knowing that a vacancy will have a high number of applications.
It would be helpful for you to indicate your preferred Conservancy Office location as part of your application (Dumfries, Selkirk, Hamilton, Perth, Huntly or Dingwall). If there is no vacancy at your preferred location and you are unable to take up post in others offered, you will be placed on a reserve list for a period of 12 months pending an available post arising. After this time, you will need to reapply if a suitable post has not been found for you.
