Delivery Manager

About the team

South Region are a fantastic team who have the very great privilege of managing almost 170,000 ha of land, with huge variety and potential, spread all the way from the Borders to the Isle of Arran.

As you can imaging it’s a busy place, we sustainably produce over a million cubic metres of timber from the estate every year, replant over 2,000 ha for future generations use, build roads and bridges, support many renewable energy projects, restore opencast sites and create new woodland, restore peatlands and manage some fantastic biodiversity sites and species, provide some world class mountain biking opportunities and a huge range of other recreational provision and visitor centres for the public to use and enjoy. In short, it’s a fantastic, diverse and hugely impressive area of land to be responsible for and we have a great team of people who make all these good things happen, every day.

What you will do

The Delivery Manager plays a key role within the Region, Overseeing key programmes in timber marketing and harvesting, woodland creation, restocking and silviculture, civil engineering, and environmental programmes including the effective management of wild deer. You will also contribute to supporting and enabling renewable energy programmes and addressing statutory plant health notices.

You will play a key role in Business planning, contributing to the development of a strategic approach which allows us to develop and then implement a sustainable and resilient future model for our business.

Reporting to the Regional Manager, you will lead a team of approximately 110 people in the delivery team. You will also contribute to the South Region Leadership Team, act as deputy to the Regional Manager and will connect, contribute to and promote a one team culture both in Region and with National Teams.

Main Duties

Leading the Delivery team

• Provide strategic leadership for the delivery team by translating national goals and targets into local delivery priorities.
• Drive forward professionalism in the delivery team both in terms of overall team performance as well as individual professional development.
• Lead safety first culture within the team, providing support and understanding whilst pushing a continued improvement plan. Check compliance with relevant procedures and identify streamlined and integrated safety systems.
• Act as Reporting Officer for the two Area Civil Engineers and the Regional Stewardship Manager.
• Lead workforce planning within the delivery function to ensure that we have a capable and resilient team, building for our future.

Leading the Deliver Programme

• Provide leadership in programming decisions to support the delivery team in achieving the Regional goals.
• Prepare an effective and efficient Business plan, resourced appropriately to allow the team to achieve the targets set by the Region and monitor expenditure and service provision throughout the year.

Stakeholder Engagement, Representation and Customer Care

• Maintain and promote effective networks with stakeholders and customers to ensure that the team deliver consistent and high quality output.
• Maintain market intelligence and act as the link between national sales and marketing team and the regional customers.

Regional Leadership

• Play an active role in the Regional Management Leadership Team.
• Manage Regional business risks as they affect the delivery team making effective and timely decisions to manage the risks to an acceptable level.
• Support the Regional Manager acting as their deputy when required.
• Lead Strategic procurement decisions for the Regional delivery team to ensure that key targets can be achieved.
• Evolve our approach to the way we work, moving us towards our desired Target Operating Model.

Experience

Essential:

• Knowledge of modern forestry and land management, as currently practiced in Scotland.
• Leading and supporting teams.

Desirable:

• Building capacity and resilience in changing teams.
• Leading Innovation and Change.
• Finance and Contract management.
• Managing and Delivering programmes.

Technical Skills

Essential:

• HND qualification or Higher in Forestry or related Land Management subject.
• Full current UK Driving licence.
• Competence in MS Office.

Desirable:

• Familiar in the use of core FLS IT systems.
• ICF Professional Membership.

Strengths

You will not be assessed against this at application stage. However, this will be assessed if you are successful for interview.

What we offer you

If successful, you will be entitled to a wide range of benefits. This includes:

• A generous annual leave allowance of 25 days, rising to 30 days per year after 5 years’ service. In addition, there are currently 11.5 days of public and privilege holidays, dates of which are set annually.
• A competitive contributory pension scheme.
• Annual pay progression (subject to Scottish Government approval).
• Access to an ASVA card, giving you free access to over 480 visitor attractions and sites across Scotland.
• Employee discount with Forest Holidays.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• A generous paid maternity and paternity leave.
• We recognise the importance of enabling employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance by offering flexi-time arrangements in areas of the business where it is appropriate to do so.
• Access to join the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC), which offers a number of discounts, access to leisure activities, gyms and much more.
• Free car parking spaces for staff (dependent on the office location).
• Employee development opportunities - Personal and professional development with a range of in-house courses offered by our Learning and Development team.
• Fully funded professional accreditation fees required for your role, where applicable.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme – available all year round (24 hours, 7 days a week).
• Trade union membership for those interested in joining one.

Additional information

Where a vacancy attracts more than 10 applications, only certain ‘essential’ criteria, known as ‘lead criteria’, will be assessed at sift stage, providing this is specified in the advert. However, it is still important that you complete the entire application form in sufficient detail, as there is no way of knowing that a vacancy will have a high number of applications.

We strongly believe in an inclusive and supportive work culture. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of background. We are currently under-represented by women; therefore we encourage applications from females.

This is a full time vacancy of 37 hours per week; however, we are a flexible employer and encourage applicants who wish to work other flexible working patterns to apply, as requests will be considered.

Nationality Requirements

We are currently unable to sponsor individuals to work in the UK therefore, it is essential that you ensure you have the Right to work in the UK before applying to work with us.

You are also be required to meet the nationality requirements to work for the Civil Service.

To apply, please visit this link APPLICATIONS HERE

Closing date: 10 November 2021. Applications are accepted until 11.55 pm on the closing date.