SENIOR FORESTRY MANAGER

(Remote with some travel, fully expensed)


We're an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for the best candidate based on the value they can add. Our culture is hugely important to us and we welcome applicants of all race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We encourage all candidates who believe they have the required skills and experience for any of our roles to apply. We also welcome applications from candidates who have a keen interest and passion for fighting climate change.

We are on a mission to remove as much excess CO2 from the atmosphere as we can, in order to avoid the most disastrous effects of global warming and the climate crisis. We’re achieving this by planting forests that are profitable, meaning we can scale up our land holding, plant millions of trees, and grow a climate solution which removes significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. Our tools to do this have expanded from reforestation alone to co-deploying reforestation with biochar and enhanced weathering, two relatively new carbon removal technologies being trialled, potentially increasing the amount of carbon sequestered per hectare by an order of magnitude. We have a plan to reach 50k hectares of land holding, and plant 50 million trees.

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and working alongside the Regional Land Management Teams you will be responsible for all aspects of overseeing our operational forestry interests across a varied portfolio of properties. You will lead and support our small but expanding forestry team providing high quality, technical and strategic forestry advice to other members within the business, liaising with stakeholders and forestry regulators to help guide our forestry portfolio opportunities and future acquisitions.

You will be responsible for ensuring that all our forestry operations are appropriately and effectively delivered to the best practice UK Forestry Standards and our legal requirements such as tree health compliance are met. This role is integral to our vision but is only one method of carbon capture we employ. As such it is vital that you possess the ability to work flexibly and collaboratively as part of a multi-purpose land management team.

The main areas of responsibility include but not limited to:

• Assessing the suitability of new and potential sites for tree planting
• Applying for Government forestry grant schemes and knowledge of associated regulatory processes such as felling permissions, EIA screening, community consultation and compliance with the UK Forestry Standard
• Operational oversight of all FFC forestry activities
• Creation and management of long term forestry management plans for all existing sites
• Tree Health
• Ability to employ or identify new revenue streams and business opportunities such as applying the Woodland Carbon Code whilst ensuring maximum revenue is maintained from our existing properties
• Effective stakeholder engagement with critical third parties across the UK
• Managing our internal forestry team and working very closely property and project colleagues
• Consistently delivering high forestry site management performance and working towards ensuring all our forestry portfolio achieves the UKWAS standard.

About you:

We are seeking an individual with a relevant forestry or land-based qualification, a minimum of 5 years of demonstrable forestry and line management experience within a similar role with very high levels of initiative, drive, knowledge and competency. You should relish the opportunity to help develop our forestry interests, support the cultural drive of the business whilst enjoying the benefits of working flexibly but as part of a multi-disciplinary team with strong UK and global connections.

Essential:

• Experience leading forestry projects in the UK
• Recent experience of woodland creation/management applications in Scotland or England
• A strong passion for the environment and sustainable woodland management
• HND or Degree in Forestry or an Environmental Land Management related subject
• Full driving license and willingness to travel across the UK
• Demonstrable ability to work under own initiative, consistently achieving high delivery standards to demanding and presurised timescales

Desirable:

• Knowledge or experience of applying the Woodland Carbon Code
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters or a willingness to work towards it
• Experience of Forestry land acquisition

What you get

• Salary dependent on experience, £40k-50k
• Shares in The Future Forest Company
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Home based location with flexible working
• Individual development and training budget
• Yearly ICF subscription fees paid
• The chance to help build a company that is leading the way in the fight against climate change
• Home office setup scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme, MHFA and wellbeing strategy
• Enhanced Family Leave policies
• Company sickness pay
• Electric company car later in the new year to be confirmed

Please apply Via our careers page



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