The Border Mires cover 55 sites over 2,800 hectares. You'll be:

• Planning, delivering and monitoring peatland restoration projects.
• Bringing together colleagues and partners to achieve the project's objectives.
• Raising the profile of the Border Mires and the peat resource
• Supporting Forestry England's conservation work and promoting it to neighbours, local communities, partners, contractors and volunteers.

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

Where you’ll work…

The successful candidate will be based at our Bellingham Office but will work across the Border Mires. Homeworking will be available alongside regular office attendance.

Programme development:

• interpret existing survey data into a 10 year work programme
• confirm interventions, work types and outline costs for business planning
• create a rolling assessment process to bring new sites in to the programme
  

Resource management and operational delivery:

• complete the site planning for the delivery of the work set out in the approved project plan
• procure and engage competent contractors to deliver site work
• monitor work progress and expenditure against the project targets, reporting to the FE Project Team
• manage site operations to ensure specifications are delivered within Forestry England’s operations and safety standards and the UK Forestry Standard
• Collaborate positively with colleagues, partners, organisations and individuals to deliver the peatland restoration and related projects.
• Surveying and Record keeping: Design, implement and report on the site survey and monitoring programme required within the project working with academic institutes and consultancies.
• Survey and assess the wider peat resource in order to advise forest design planning and the development of a strategy for peat in North Forest District.
• Represent Forestry England at the Border Mires Committee and through site visits or media/press releases.

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