Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment until September 2026
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £33,854
Location: Bellingham
Closing Date: 23/11/2025
We are Forestry England.
We live and breathe forests.
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 nation’s 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.
What you’ll do…
As part of a partnership of landowners, Forestry England have secured development funding through DEFRA’s Landscape Recovery scheme to develop a new landscape scale project, creating a new model for integrated land management in the Upper Irthing Catchment.
This role will work as an integral part of the Project Team during the remainder of the 2-year funded development period to develop detailed delivery plans for long term management of the project area, as well as proposals for monitoring and funding those management proposals. The successful candidate will report to the Project manager and the project partnership (comprised of landowners and other key stakeholders) on their own key areas of work. These plans will encompass all aspects of the future land management of the project area, but of most relevance to this role will be developing or supporting the development of:
* long term monitoring systems and programmes,
* delivery plans for habitat restoration, creation and enhancement work
* Species recovery plans
* landscape resilience (e.g. wildfire, flood, drought, biosecurity) plans
* access improvement and management plans
* stakeholder engagement plans
In all this the officer will be supported by other team members, especially the Project manager, and in turn will support other team members with their areas of responsibilities as required. All project team members will liaise closely with project partners, especially with landowners where plans affect their land holding directly or indirectly.
Where you’ll work…
Kielder Forest is a hub of nature recovery, home to breeding populations of hen harrier, osprey, pine marten and red squirrel, all monitored and supported in their recovery as part of a diverse, multi-purpose forest. Projects such as the restoration of the Border Mires, native woodland restoration at Kielder Wildwood, reintroduction of the water vole and others are helping to make this landscape, in conjunction with our partners, a leading location for wildlife to thrive.
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