Job Introduction
We are Forestry England.
We live and breathe forests.
Job title GIS Support Officer
Salary £32,089 - £32,724 pro rata
Contract type Fixed term maternity leave cover
Hours 24 per week
Vacancy closes 15th September 2025 23:58
Overview
Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.
Together, we're using our scale and expertise to grow the nations forests for everyone. We're already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
The GIS Team work with most areas of the business to support and develop spatial data management systems and applications to achieve the organisation's objectives. This position is a key customer facing role in the GIS team. It is a job share and limited to 3 days per week for the duration of the current post holder's maternity leave. It primarily covers customer support but also communications, development, data and user management.
Where you'll work
This role can be based at Forestry England's National Office in Bristol, from any Forestry England office subject to local agreement, a blended approach or working from home. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in GB and not overseas.
We have an IT user community of around 1800 people who are geographically spread and delivering a broad range of business functions covering forestry management, timber harvesting, recreation and events management, and management of visitor centres. Excellent IT is essential to help meet our corporate targets and to develop our future.
Benefits
Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
* 25 days holiday a year, rising by one day every year of service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
* STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays, clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
* free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
* a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.
Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website.
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 experience and technical skill based questions during your interview.
The Behaviours being assessed at interview are
* Managing a Quality Service
* Changing and Improving
Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.
If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email.
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.
Nationality requirements
Read more about Nationality Requirements here.
Working for the Civil Service
Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.
Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.
Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in line with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email.
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