Guidance Officer

3 weeks ago

West Midlands, United Kingdom Forestry Commission Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 255900**Salary**:

- £35,870 - £38,842**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- Pay Band 4**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- FC - Forestry England**Type of role**:

- Knowledge and Information Management**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Location**

The role will be based in one of Forestry Commission’s offices across England with regular contact or travel to Bristol. There will be flexibility for some optional blended working. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.

Forestry England is part of the Forestry Commission, and we look after more land and more trees than any other organisation in the country, shaping landscapes for people, wildlife and timber. You will play a key role supporting how the organisation operates.

Forestry England is an organisation like no other. Our strong values and shared ambition to connect everyone with the nation’s forests underpin all that we do.

We are uniquely placed to confront the climate emergency, tackle the nature crisis and support the nation’s health and wellbeing. Working for Forestry England is to be part of the solution to the challenges of our generation. You will play a key role supporting how the organisation operates.

Being part of Forestry England is to be part of a progressive and inclusive organisation, where you will work in and amongst some of the most diverse and spectacular natural environments in England. Our benefits include a generous holiday entitlement, substantial training, development and volunteering opportunities, flexible and blended working arrangements and membership of an excellent civil service pension scheme.

The nature of the role requires a willingness to travel regularly/occasionally throughout England with short stays away from home as required.

**Job description**:
Additionally the Forestry England estate is dual certified under FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) for timber production and the role will assist the lead planning manager in ensuring organisational compliance with the UK Woodland Assurance standard (UKWAS), the standard for verifying sustainable woodland management in the UK.

**Key Roles**

**Maintenance of current suite of Guidance documents**

Ensure that current guidance and supporting documents are reviewed as appropriate and according to agreed schedules by the relevant authors. To ensure we can demonstrate compliance, the post holder will maintain a log of changes, will be responsible for updating the relevant intranet pages and archiving any previous document versions. Removing guidance as it becomes obsolete, ensuring any live guidance is not contradictory and is aligned with national policy and practice.

**Lead/coordinate revision and production of Guidance**

**Disseminate the guidance**

**Auditing against guidance and standards**

Assist with both internal and external auditing against UK Woodland Assurance Standard to maintain the Forest Stewardship council (FSC) and Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) dual certification.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**

Experience in producing policy and guidance documentation

Experience in managing multiple project streams together, running to varied timescale and priorities.

Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills and conversant with remote working technology such as Microsoft Teams

Full UK Driving licence

**Desirable**

Experience and qualification in either ISO9001 or ISO14001 BSA internal audit or a willingness to undertake training.

A good understanding of forestry and land management and knowledge of Forest certification against the UK Woodland Assurance Standard.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Writing technical documents
- Auditing

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.If selected it will be followed by an interview. Interviews will be conducted via virtual meeting and will assess behaviours and technical skills.

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