Forestry Consultant

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Bidwells Forestry Team is a long established and profitable part of our successful and growing business, that prides itself on providing fully independent, client-focused forestry advice. **_Our objective is obtaining the best outcomes for our clients and their woodlands, with professional ability and integrity valued above all else._**

The Forestry Team is forward thinking, with a strong client base, actively involved in a wide cross-section of the industry from forest asset management for institutional investors, portfolios and family offices to traditional estate forest management as well as providing a range of professional services including forest sales, valuations and acquisitions, renewables EIAs and construction management, specialist one-off consultancy work and woodland creation projects.

Bidwells Forestry Team are advertising a number of positions covering **Forest Asset Management**, **Professional Forestry Consultancy** and **Direct Forest Management** at a range of levels from Consultant to Associate level across our Perth, Inverness and Fort William office locations. This growth reflects the strength of our business, and our recruitment is focused on **getting the right forestry professionals** to join our team

**Who we are looking for**:
**Forest Asset Management & Consultancy**

Forest asset management requires a demonstrable operational knowledge of commercial upland spruce, with a particular emphasis on maximising timber returns and ensuring high quality crop establishment across client properties in Scotland and the north of England.

Professional forestry consultancy requires a broad experience in forestry in areas such as forestry investment, valuation and agency to management, grants and regulation and harvesting. Our priority is to fit the right forestry professional into the right role.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Guide the strategic direction of clients’ forests assets, supporting decision making, management strategies, income forecasting and planning investment quantum and timings
- Timely delivery of annual budget production, management and client reporting
- Oversight of budget implementation and quality assurance by third-party forest managers
- Clear and accurate communication with clients, team members and external parties
- Production of timely, detailed and accurate forestry reports and statistics, often to tight timescales
- Support production of valuation reports with our RICS registered valuers,
- Production of investment appraisals and acquisition reports
- Identify and deliver commercial afforestation and native woodland creation projects and carbon credit registration

**Skills and Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience in the management of upland spruce forests including harvesting, establishment, grants and regulations as well as wider rural and renewables policies
- Attention to detail and accuracy in reports, figures and verbal communications critical
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, team members and third parties
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workloads, taking an agile approach to changing work commitments and supporting team delivery
- Confident with key software for report production and analysis of figures, with experience of interrogating crop schedules
- Experience of forestry investment, valuation and forestry sales desirable
- Degree level qualification, ideally in forestry (or a related field with demonstrable experience in forestry). Full ICF and/or RICS membership desirable or intention to progress towards full membership

**What's in it for you?**

**Competitive Salary**: We recognise and reward talent with generous salary and group bonus schemes

**Comprehensive Benefits**: Including up to 8% matched pension, private medical, medicash plan, your birthday off work and lifestyle discounts and perks

**Professional Development**: Continuous learning, study support and promotion opportunities

**Innovative Culture**: Be part of a forward-thinking team at the forefront of industry trends

**Family Friendly**: We offer enhanced family leave policies to support individuals close to you

Agencies: Bidwells does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not be responsible for related fees.