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 meters 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 Regional Stewardship Manager plays a key role within the Region, Managing the delivery of core programmes in timber marketing and harvesting, woodland creation, restocking, silviculture and the management of wild deer.
You will be responsible for monitoring performance of key programmes, ensuring our targets and wider outcomes are achieved. You will contribute to Business Planning, and in seeking ways to innovate and add value, building our resilience and sustainability.
Reporting to the Delivery Manager, you will manage a team of several people in the delivery team. A key aspect of the role is the day to day support and management of this extensive and dispersed team. You will also contribute to the South Region Leadership Team, act as deputy to the Delivery Manager and will connect, contribute to and promote a one team culture both in Region and with National Teams.
Responsibilities
Support the Delivery Team
- Line manage the Area Stewardship Managers and the Regional Deer Manager support their continued professional development, act as second manager for the foresters in Harvesting and Forest Management, promote and support an effective programme of skills development and capacity building within the team;
- Support the Delivery Manager in health and safety culture change and its development to ensure that this is at the core of all the work that we do;
- Support staff wellbeing within the team;
- Manage HR related issues affecting the team in terms of absence, conduct and support, delegating to Area Stewardship Managers where appropriate.
Manage the Delivery Programme
- Provide effective day to day support and guidance to the Delivery team;
- Monitor performance of the team and ensure programme targets are being achieved;
- In delivery of the programme, ensure relevant standards and outcomes are being achieved;
- Support the DM in preparation and monitoring of finances;
- Involvement on procurement tender evaluations as required during the year.
Stakeholder Engagement, Representation and Customer Care
- Support front line customer care, meeting periodically with main timber customers and specific stakeholders to aid the team to achieve FLS and customer priorities;
- Lead on managing complaints and issues related to delivery activities across the region.
Contribute to Wider Regional objectives
- Liaise with other team leads within the region to ensure that delivery team can continue to deliver regional and national targets,
- Support the Delivery manager, acting as their deputy when required;
- Act as the “customer” for Mechanical engineering services on behalf of the region, liaising closely with the workshop manager on fleet management issues;
- Involvement on specific national project groups as required
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.
To apply, please visit our website.
Closing date: Wednesday 10 November 2021. Applications are accepted until 11.55 pm on the closing date.
