Job Details

This is an exciting role co-ordinating project planning and project management of the Woodland Trust’s contribution to the Northern Forest, a landscape scale partnership with four of England's Community Forests, and the Community Forest Trust, that stretches from Liverpool to Hull. The Northern Forest is one of the Woodland Trust’s key focus areas, called Treescapes, in the UK.

• You will help build detailed project proposals and facilitate funding bids to support Woodland Trust delivery of the Northern Forest, including those focused on ancient woodland restoration.
• Act as WT account manager with Defra for the Northern Forest Nature for Climate Fund woodland creation programme, a potential Defra Trees for Climate 2 programme   and other relevant funded programmes, overseeing and preparing associated reporting to funders, and associated project management processes.
• Responsible for coordinating project management of the WT Northern Forest Treescape plan.
• Deliver pro-active and positive internal and external stakeholder engagement and communication, building and maintaining effective relationships.
• Ensuring that organisational goals, in particular those of WT’s 2030 Strategy are maximised through the Northern Forest in the context of complex and wide-ranging external partnership arrangements.
• Travel to and from the Northern Forest will be required.
• This is a Hybrid working role, where you’ll work part of your time at home and part of the time travelling in the North of England as required. You may occasionally visit our Head Office based in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

• You have an enthusiasm for the environment and share our core values - Grow Together, Explore, Focus and Make it Count. 
• Will have experience in all stages of project co-ordination and project management, taking complex cross functional projects from inception to implementation, review and evaluation, together with experience of project management frameworks, for example Prince 2
• Will be experienced in developing and shaping complex, oven ready project proposals and related funding bids, and managing and overseeing grant programmes, particularly within the land management / conservation sector
• Will be experienced in landscape scale working for nature recovery, climate resilience and people
• Will have experience in building and maintaining effective and efficient collaborative working relationships with a range of people, both internally and externally, including excellent communication skills.
• Will be versed in recognising different leadership styles and team types and able to create a cohesive and high functioning virtual project team, including external stakeholders.
• Will have knowledge of wooded habitat creation, woodland management and the environmental land management sector more widely.
• Will be well versed in internal and external communications that promote and showcase delivery.