Natura 2000 Sustainable Management Advisor

**Contract type**: Fixed Term appointment until 31 March 2024
**Work pattern**: Full time, 37 hours a week
**Post number**: 202701
As an organisation we support flexible working. This role allows hybrid working (a mix of home and office working) and a working pattern suitable for you can be discussed on appointment if you are successful.
You will be contracted to the NRW location stated in this advert, of which you will be required to attend for regular meetings, training and for one-to-one meetings with your manager. These will be planned in advance.

Many species and habitats in Wales are in serious decline. You will be part of a local team delivering NRW’s biodiversity and ecosystem resilience strategy, ‘Vital Nature’ and work with partners, including Welsh Government, on specific projects that address the wider “Nature Emergency”. You will need enthusiasm and drive as well as experience of working with partners and stakeholders and have a good knowledge of terrestrial biodiversity. The role aims to deliver conservation management within North East Wales as well as specific habitat focused projects to bring sites into better condition over a wider area.
**Responsibilities**
Your responsibilities will include:

- Work with NRW staff and external partners, particularly non-governmental Environment organisations to develop partnership projects that will reverse biodiversity declines.
- Identify and develop proposals for capital and grant aid funding for actions and projects in Place driven by Vital Nature and Area Statement priorities, consistent with SMNR principles.
- Monitor project progress and undertake regular reviews to ensure full delivery of projects within the project timeframe.
- Work with Environment, Land Management Team and Land owners to help deliver Management Agreements.
- Ensure that implementation and reporting of the project fully adheres to NRW policies and procedures.
- Ensure that all projects have the necessary permissions/consents to proceed.
- Monitor progress of work, which may include interpretation of data, contractor management, project delivery or compliance with management agreements Identify and support any remedial actions to ensure outcome delivery. Gather evidence to check that claim submissions are appropriate
- **Incident Response requirements**: Required to take part in incident response activities

**Qualifications, experience and knowledge**
You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of the following:

- Experience of nature conservation, biodiversity, protected sites & landscapes in marine or terrestrial environment.
- Experience of working with landowners and/or other stakeholders.
- Strong and effective self-management and organisational skills.
- The ability to influence, negotiate and gain cooperation of others. Experience of dealing successfully with difficult people / situations is important.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills with a customer focus.
- Excellent at building effective working relationship with colleagues and external partners
- Ability to write clear, concise technical reports.
- Able to work well as part of a team.
- Hold a current full UK valid licence to drive NRW fleet vehicles

**Welsh language requirements**
**Essential**:Level 1** - Able to pronounce Welsh and use basic phrases
**Desirable**:Level 3** - Able to communicate with confidence in Welsh in some work situations
**Please note** if you do not meet the level 1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these mínimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.
**Competencies**
**Essential Knowledge and Skills**
- Expertise gained in a defined area or function, enabling the post holder to provide advice and guidance to others.
- Demonstrates a sound understanding and appreciation of the work of the wider function.
- Has good literacy, numeracy and communication skills including well developed customer facing skills.
- Experience of supervising others is desirable.

**Evaluation of Information**
- Able to analyse and process non-routine technical information, containing a degree of complexity.

**Decision Making and Autonomy Requirements**
- Ability to decide how best to achieve results, requiring some degree of judgment and creativity and the need to alter priorities where there are conflicting demands.
- Able to solve problems and make decisions of a technical nature; primarily around their own area of work but will also cross over with the work of others.
- Ability to undertake research to determine how best to resolve issues.
- Able to provide guidance to less experienced members, to resolve problems.

**Impact**
- Aspects of the work may also have the potential, if carried out incorrectly, to impact on third parties and a wider area.

**Communication and Relationships with Others**
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