Land Use and Farming Advisor

Summary A fantastic opportunity to join National Trust Cymru in caring for some of the most iconic places in Wales. This is a permanent role with National Trust Cymru consultancy, and we are looking for someone with a passion for nature-friendly farming,great organisational skills and a love for delivering first class support to join our team. As a Land Use & Farming Adviser, you'll be working closely with specialist colleagues to provide support in key areas of farming across Wales, with the ambition toachieve higher standards of land management across the National Trust. Ultimately helping to deliver the objectives within our Strategy’s Land, Outdoors & Nature Programme, including delivery of High Nature Status on our land.

**We’re open to applicants based anywhere in Wales. **We’re offering a hybrid approach to how you work, to enable you to be more flexible and achieve a better work/life balance.

Your contractual place of work will be located at one of our offices at Wrexham, Betws y Coed, Llandeilo, or Newport to name a few. There will be an opportunity to explore and agree working arrangements which strike the right balance for you and the Trust.You'll find that no two days will be the same.

Cyfle gwych i ymuno ag Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol Cymru i ofalu am rai o leoedd mwyaf eiconig Cymru. Mae hon yn rôl barhaol gydag Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol Cymru, ac rydym yn chwilio am rywun sydd ag angerdd at ffermio natur gyfeillgar, sydd â sgiliautrefnu gwych, ac sy’n frwd dros ddarparu cefnogaeth o’r radd flaenaf, i ymuno â’n tîm.Fel Ymgynghorydd defnydd Tir a Ffermio Cynorthwyol, byddwch yn gweithio’n agos â’n Hymgynghorydd Defnydd Tir a Ffermio, a byddwch gyda’ch gilydd yn darparu cymorth mewnardaloedd ffermio allweddol ledled Cymru, gyda’r nod o gyflawni safonau uwch o reolaeth tir ar draws yr Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol. Helpu yn y pendraw i gyflawni’r amcanion o fewn Rhaglen Tir, Awyr Agored a Natur ein Strategaeth, yn cynnwys cyflawni StatwsNatur Uchel ar ein tir.

**Rydym yn agored i ymgeiswyr a leolir yn unrhyw le yng Nghymru. **Rydym yn cynnig dull hybrid o weithio, er mwyn eich galluogi chi i fod yn fwy hyblyg a chael gwell cydbwysedd gwaith/bywyd.

Bydd eich gweithle cytundebol yn un o’n swyddfeydd yn Wrecsam, Betws y Coed, Llandeilo, neu Gasnewydd, i enwi rhai. Bydd cyfle i archwilio a chytuno ar drefniadau gweithio sy'n sicrhau'r cydbwysedd cywir i chi a'r Ymddiriedolaeth. Byddwch yn gweld bod pobdiwrnod yn wahanol.

What it's like to work here This post will be part of the National Trust Cymru Consultancy Team - an inhouse team of multidisciplinary experts who together form a great repository of skills talents and experience. The diversity and quality of expertise withinthe team enable our properties and places to benefit from an extraordinary range of creative and innovative thinking, as well as deep expertise in all matters relating to our twin purpose of caring for the nation’s most special heritage and landscapes andproviding public goods by making these places accessible to all.

National Trust Cymru land is spread across Wales, in Gower, Brecon, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Wrexham, Snowdonia, Llyn and Anglesey. Our land is at the heart of what makes the Trust special in Wales and we proudly care for more than 46,000hectares. Around 97% is managed by farming in some way, either by us, farm tenants or commons rights holders.

Bydd y swydd hon yn rhan o Dîm Ymgynghori Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol Cymru - tîm mewnol o arbenigwyr amlddisgyblaethol sydd â’i gilydd yn creu cronfa wych o sgiliau, doniau a phrofiadau. Mae amrywiaeth ac ansawdd arbenigedd ein tîm yn galluogi ein heiddoa lleoedd i elwa o ystod anhygoel o syniadau creadigol ac arloesol, yn ogystal ag arbenigedd trylwyr ym mhob maes sy'n ymwneud â'n diben dwbl o ofalu am dirweddau a safleoedd treftadaeth mwyaf arbennig y wlad, a chynnig budd i'r cyhoedd drwy wneud y lleoeddhyn yn hygyrch i bawb.

Mae tir Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol Cymru wedi’i leoli ar hyd a lled Cymru, ar y Gwyr, yn Aberhonddu, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Sir Benfro, Ceredigion, Wrecsam, Eryri, Llyn a Môn. Mae ein tir wrth wraidd yr hyn sy’n gwneud yr Ymddiriedolaeth yn arbennig yng Nghymruac rydym yn gwarchod dros 46,000 hectar â balchder. Mae oddeutu 97% ohono’n cael ei reoli gan ffermio mewn rhyw ffordd, naill ai gennym ni, tenantiaid ffermydd neu ddeiliaid hawliau tir comin.

What you'll be doing You'll provide efficient, effective, and flexible expertise in Land Use systems delivering Nature, carbon, and wider benefits alongside food production. As part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering integrated land management advice todrive land use changes which enable us to achieve our ambitious objectives for nature, carbon, and access.- You'll provide leadership, guidance, and support to properties on diverse land use and farming systems for nature, carbon, and people Contributing to the development and delivery of Estate Management Plans
- You'll lead in the coordination of in-hand farm support payments, Agri-environment, and current and future compliance obligations Providing technical and practical advice to operational staff, estate managers and site monitors. Assisting to ensure theyare compliant with National Trust Cymru and external requirements and regulations
- You'll be able to assess land condition and minimum standards across in-hand and tenanted farmland, advising on improvements and mitigation measures to meet our Land and Nature ambition
- You'll champion the work of National Trust Cymru by building relationships, partnerships, making our programmes available to both existing and new audiences. Exploring new and innovative ways to develop opportunities and engage with and support our currentand future tenants
- You’ll also draw upon, and contribute to, external data, trends and good practice to champion innovation in agriculture and farm produce marketing to help to increase our supporter engagement
- Working with our fundraising colleagues, and others, to seek out and respond to opportunities to raise funds to drive change.

**Please also read the full role profile attached to this advert.**

Byddwch yn darparu arbenigedd effeithlon, effeithiol a hyblyg mewn systemau Defnydd Tir sy’n darparu buddion Natur, carbon, a buddion ehangach ochr yn ochr â chynhyrchu bwyd. Fel rhan o dîm aml-ddisgyblaethol sy’n darparu cyngor rheoli tir i ysgogi newidiadaudefnydd dir sy’n ein galluogi i gyflawni ein hamcanion ar gyfer natur, carbon a mynediad.

Byddwch yn darparu arweiniad a chymorth i eiddo ar systemau defnydd tir a ffermio amrywiol ar gyfer natur,