Angus Glens Planning Forester

Angus Glens Planning Forester

Job reference: REQ0583

Location: Dunkeld

Salary: £30,427 - £32,615 + over 26% employer pension contributions

Full time

Job description

We are looking for a Forest Planner with excellent communication skills to turn our vision for landscape scale habitat restoration in the Angus Glens into a clear and concise plan.

This post will create a new Land Management Plan for the recently acquired Glen Prosen Estate, as well as fully reviewing plans for our existing forests in Glen Prosen and Glen Doll. Candidates will demonstrate an ability to work with a range of stakeholders and colleagues, engaging them into this process to ensure a collaborative approach and a final plan that delivers against the twin crises of biodiversity and climate.

Working at Forestry and Land Scotland is all about ‘People, Pride and Purpose.’ Join us and take pride in helping look after something incredibly valuable to the people of Scotland and its visitors – Scotland’s national forests and land.

Together we’re helping adapt and respond to climate change in Scotland, supporting the economy, protecting and enhancing the environment, and bringing increased positive benefits to the people of Scotland.

About the team

The FLS team in East Region manages approximately 90,000Ha of Scotland’s National Forests and

Land, from the coastal pine woods of Moray and Fife, to the large productive forests across

Aberdeenshire, the busy recreational woods near Aberdeen, Dundee and Perth, and the iconic

forests of Bennachie and Tay Forest Park. These areas also include large parts of the Cairngorms

National Park and encompass important open habitats and native woodlands, including sand dune

and shingle systems, blanket bog and montane habitats, the pinewoods of Deeside, lowland oak

woods and the Blackwood of Rannoch Caledonian Pinewood.

The planning and environment teams work closely with other teams and specialists to design

sustainable forests of the future, protect and restore semi-natural habitats, respond to climate

change and enhance our landscapes. The teams prepare spatial plans, develop work programmes

and coordinate and manage data and surveys, as well as contribute to national initiatives and

projects to ensure the public land is well cared for.

Main Duties

• Prepare Land Management Plans (LMPs). This involves getting to know the forest and land

then analysing the implications of forestry, environmental, financial and social impacts and

opportunities to inform proposals for future management. Plans are required to meet the UK.

• Forestry Standard and the UK Woodland Assurance Standard.
• Undertake site visits and collaborate with relevant colleagues to identify forest management requirements, creatively address wider land management problems and

explore options for sustainable land management.

• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with external stakeholders such as

community groups and statutory consultees.

• When necessary, prepare screening information for Environmental Impact Assessments

(EIAs); make amendments to existing plans; and support the planning team as necessary, for

example by coordinating work on pests and diseases, coordinating survey work or supporting

data analysis.

• As a member of the planning team, you may also be expected to manage contracts, such as

for survey work carried out on the forests and land.

Closing date: 25 April 2023.

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