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Wildlife Manager

Forestry Commission -
Santon

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Job details

Full-time | Fixed term contract
£37,537 - £39,661 a year
1 day ago

Benefits

Company pension

Qualifications

Driving Licence
Supervising experience
Presentation skills
Bachelor's degree
Data management
Land management
Leadership
BTEC

Full job description

Details

Reference number

472645

Salary

£37,537 - £39,661

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Executive Officer

Pay band 5 (OP)

Contract type

Fixed term

Length of employment

Fixed Term until March 2029, with the possibility of extension or permanency

Business area

FC - Forestry England

Type of role

Environment and Sustainability

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

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Location

Santon Downham, East of England, IP27 0TJ

About the job

Job summary

What youll do

You will plan and implement safe and professional wildlife management programmes to protect tree crops and improve ecosystems. You will provide leadership and technical support in the district and through national networks.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where youll work

East District offices at Santon Downham, IP27 0TJ

Job description

Key responsibilities & accountabilities

Manage people:

Manage the wildlife ranger team, to meet our high professional standards.
Provide technical support in the district and through national networks.
Lead by example to promote a positive and inclusive culture, and actively promote collaboration and support across the district and with stakeholders.
Demonstrate Forestry Englands organisational values and behaviours and make sure your team does too.
Drive improvement in the wildlife team, promoting learning and development opportunities.

Manage resources:

Manage the districts wildlife budget.
Buy and distribute goods and equipment (including restricted items) in line with Forestry England policy.
Arrange and supervise a range of contracts.

Manage stakeholders:

Contribute to the day-to-day operation of the district as part of the management team.
Work with foresters and district ecologists to make sure work programmes are delivered effectively and efficiently.
Work with deer officer and other external organisations towards effective landscape-scale mammal management.
Advise and support the estates team with sporting tenancies and sporting retained rights.
Manage deer control licence holders and contractors to achieve deer management plan targets.
Help to develop national policy at the request of the lead wildlife manager.
Represent Forestry England at deer management group and squirrel control group meetings.
Liaise with the police and neighbours on wildlife crime or as directed by the forest management director.

Manage health and safety:

Manage health and safety involving firearms and the wildlife management operations.
Provide leadership to promote a positive safety culture and plan infrastructure to minimise risk during wildlife management operations.
Control authorising, using, inspecting, and recording firearms and ammunition by the wildlife ranger team, making sure Forestry England complies with legislation and internal policies.
Make sure that district s deer larders comply with Forestry England policies, food hygiene regulations, and the British Quality Wild Venison standard.
draft and review risk assessments covering wildlife management activities.
Take overall responsibility for rifle zero and practise areas in the district and the safety of all activities on these sites.
Issue and review all firearms cards, maintain the districts firearm database, and update the national data base as required.
Issue guidance for safely using equipment and firearms, including managing the wildlife ranger training programmes.
Monitor ranger and keeper performance including accompanied stalks, and high seat inspections.
Promote reporting tick bites and using mandated deterrents.

Crop and habitat protection:

Create and deliver data-led culling plans based upon population censuses and damage/ impact assessments to minimise damage to growing crops and habitats.
Maintain wildlife management strategies to comply with UK Woodland Assurance Standard (UKWAS) and Forestry England policies.
Contract deer culling resource where and when needed to effectively deliver culling plans.

And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager.

Person specification

Skills, knowledge & experience

Essential professional and technical experience

Current or relevant experience in wildlife management including:

Detailed understanding of the legislation for wildlife management.
Experience in delivering large wildlife management programmes.
Carcase handling and larder management.
Impact and census monitoring techniques.
Experience in planning wildlife management infrastructure.
Understanding the legislative framework for using firearms.
Experience in conservation/wildlife projects.
Experience of working with partners, stakeholders and landowners.

Desirable professional and technical experience

Experience of line managing staff, and supervising contractors.
Experience of data management and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

Essential

Qualification in wildlife or conservation land management, such as a BTEC National Diploma, a BTEC HND or a BSc degree or significant and equivalent experience in a wildlife or conservation land management role.
Current police firearms certificate.
Deer stalking certificates (DSC) 1 & 2 (including trained hunter)
Full UK driving license.

Desirable

Deer management qualification assessor.
Range conducting officers' certificate.
Trained to CDM and FISA standards.
Forestry First Aid +F, this can also be obtained once employed with Forestry England.
Membership of a relevant professional body.

Licences

current police firearms certificate.
deer stalking certificates (DSC) 1 & 2 (including trained hunter)
full UK driving license.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

To be confirmed at invitation to interview

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,537, Forestry Commission contributes £10,874 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

How to apply

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.

You will be assessed on a technical skill and strength based questions during your interview.

The Behaviours being assessed at interview are

Making effective decisions
Working together
Seeing the bigger picture

Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email [email protected].

If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.

Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.

If candidates pass the interview but are not the leading candidate they can be placed on a reserve list. We may offer candidates on the reserve list for this role the opportunity to be considered for other roles at the same or lower pay bands.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : FC Recruitment Team
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles.If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact FCE by email: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

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