Management Planning – Development and Implementation
* Strategic leadership and coordination of Management Plan reviews across the Ingleborough NNR cluster, developing the operational plan for their reserves, setting the priorities for the years ahead. Includes identifying and liaising with relevant specialists and internal and external stakeholders to deliver the review process.
* Secure the staff and financial resourcing needed to deliver the management plan priorities, facilitate teamwork across the NNR group and wider NE colleagues to deliver our collective aims in those plans.
* Identify and help to manage strategic risks to delivery of the management plan in the immediate or longer term.
* Oversight of financial management of the budgets for the Ingleborough NNR cluster. Work with NNR staff to agree the resource required to carry out priority tasks for each NNR in the coming year; secure the funds through the annual bidding process; work with teams to ensure spend is tracked and audited, identify themes for cost recovery/income generation, and flag risks to delivery to Area Team FinCo and Business Manager.
* Responsible for identifying needs and works towards securing longer term investments (capital investment, external funding etc) to enhance future NNR operational delivery at a strategic level.
* Understands procurement processes, on or off framework, leading on the spend of programme budgets and provision of capital goods and services over £25k. May lead or support the project management of major capital works.
Implementation of Health & Safety (H&S) Frameworks and Legislation
* Provide leadership of a safe working practice culture to all staff, including implementation and cascading key H&S information, ensuring local systems and ways of working are in place that support the implementation of H&S policies and procedures.
* Ensure robust management of all H&S risks pertinent to activities undertaken on the NNR are in place and controlled. Includes rigorous management and supervision arrangements are in place for volunteers, contractors and visitors including where a line manager the sign off of all risk assessments etc.
* Ensuring that all health, safety and wellbeing incidents involving staff, volunteers and contractors and, as appropriate, the public are reported, recorded and circumstances investigated in line with statutory requirements and following relevant Policy Supplements, Operational Standards and Guidance.
* Provide feedback on risks and issues to H&S team and national operations colleagues, and support development and implementation of new guidance and procedures where required.
Connecting People with Nature
* Be a champion for ambition and implement strategic direction for engagement, delivery and visitor experience that aligns with national strategic and programme priorities.
* Looking for opportunity to link into wider partnership ambitions and promote inclusion with diverse audiences.
* Work with Area Team and national comms and engagement leads to promote our NNRs.
* Work with national NNR teams to seek innovative opportunities for NNRs to demonstrate organisational goals for inclusion, outreach and visitor experience.
Science, Research, Evidence & Monitoring
* Identify opportunities for local NNR science, research, evidence and monitoring to support or contribute to wider organisational evidence priorities and programmes.
* Promote and provide opportunities for NNR knowledge and evidence to be shared across local, regional and national networks.
Partnerships Management
* Develop opportunities for local and regional networks and partnerships across NNR delivery, including with Approved Body partners and other potential NNR managing partners.
* Seek mutual benefit in partnerships that deliver across local, regional and national strategic NNR priorities (both internal and external) as well as delivering benefits to partners.
* Set clear direction and work programmes for their NNR cluster, specifically leading and enabling the NNR team(s) to deliver their NNR management plans.
* Ensure regular communication with Area Team leadership group, ensuring clarity of how NNRs will help deliver Area Team goals.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Collaborating and partnerships – demonstrates honesty and integrity, steers or leads NE’s contribution to existing partnerships, has skills for issue resolution. Understands partners’ objectives and needs; can apply strategic thinking to identify the potential for new partnerships/relationships and negotiating skills to establish them. Has leadership skills to engender collaboration between NNR groups.
* Decision making – decisive, demonstrating objectivity and flexibility, assessing risks and using best available evidence and professional judgement. Takes decisions that have consequences for reserves and their teams in a particular geography, strategically significant delivery programme or landscape scale. Addresses challenging issues and manages conflict.
* Work delivery – Manages complex, landscape scale NNR projects and programmes. Evaluates and assesses priorities and balances NNR resources across their area of responsibility. Working with NNR staff to ensure delivery is on time and to budget.
* Developing others – Demonstrates leadership, shares skills and knowledge, through coaching helps others to achieve their capability and career goals.
* Engaging communication – Speaking and listening skills, written and non‑verbal communication, presentation skills, relating to multiple sites and/or controversial or high‑risk issues, tailoring style to suite a wide variety of internal and external audiences.
* Environmental and organisational – An understanding of (i) local and regional environmental issues; (ii) Local Nature Recovery Strategies and (iii) Natural England’s vision, mission and objectives. An ability to communicate these to others, internally and externally, and show how these relate to the AT’s NNRs. Understands and influences NE and other stakeholders’ objectives to help develop shared plans and new opportunities for NNRs in a landscape‑scale context.
* Health and Safety (H&S) – Takes responsibility for own H&S and the safety of those they supervise and/or line manage and of others on the reserve including visitors, contractors etc. Understands relevant aspects of H&S regulation and legislation and ensures all staff follow and implement organisational health and safety policies. If a line manager has an IOSH qualification. Demonstrating objectivity and professional judgement, oversees the maintenance and implementation of H&S standards across the reserve teams within their NNR group. If a line manager approves risk assessments for their NNR group.
* Technical skills – knowledge of the purposes of NNRs, the principles of site selection and the mechanisms involved in tenure, declaration and other relevant legal and regulatory processes. Competence in relevant IT. An understanding of the diversity of reserve activities and the types of methods, including:
* Budget management and planning skills – including external funding. Competence in prioritising and planning programmes of work across multiple sites and years.
Technical Skills and Knowledge
* Practical knowledge of habitat and reserve infrastructure management. (Essential)
* Supervise and enable staff and volunteers to carry out a range of practical tasks using machinery and tools (with relevant qualifications). (Essential)
* Knowledge of land management including management planning and the use of corporate recording and finance systems. (Essential)
* Knowledge of managing livestock as a grazing tool in a landscape and associated health and safety liabilities. (Essential)
* Understand and apply relevant policy, legislation, governance frameworks and strategies to your work. (Essential)
* Apply the principles of risk management and adopt safe working practices for yourself and the people you work with in everything you do. (Practitioner)
* Understand the duty of care owed to all visitors, contractors or others on our NNRs, and adhere to appropriate legislation and Natural England policies and procedures. (Practitioner)
Work Delivery
* Manage and deliver your work to meet agreed targets and deadlines. (Expert)
* Review budget performance and maintain accurate forecasts so that your financial submissions and commentaries are complete. (Practitioner)
Creating Resilient Landscapes and Seas
* Identify how a site interacts with the surrounding landscape, habitats and local communities. (Practitioner)
* Recognise, identify and interpret environmental features on NNRs. (Practitioner)
Putting People at the Heart of the Environment
* Nurture trusting partnerships and collaborate to achieve pragmatic outcomes that help deliver Natural England’s vision, mission and aims. (Practitioner)
* Understand the importance of people accessing and engaging with the natural environment, and how to balance their needs with nature conservation objectives. (Practitioner)
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