Job Introduction
We are Forestry England.
We live and breathe forests.
Job title – Internal Engagement Officer
Salary – £33,854
Contract type – Permanent
Hours – 37 hours per week
Vacancy closes – 29th March 2026 11:55pm
Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.
Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.
What you’ll do…
Forestry England’s national Internal Engagement Team of six communications experts sits within the wider engagement function. We we work across the whole country to ensure our staff are well-informed and engaged in Forestry England’s purpose. As well as important corporate information and supporting our staff to remain safe and well, we also share success and help to build a sense of pride and belonging.
You'll be the team’s go-to technical expert for Forestry England's intranet and other digital internal channels. This means you'll handle any day-to-day technical requirements while helping shape how we engage with our people. You'll know your way around the tech, but you'll also work closely with the wider team to make sure our internal engagement works well for everyone.
The team manages Forestry England's internal engagement across multiple channels for our geographically spread-out organisation of around 1,500 staff. Our Wordpress intranet is our number one internal channel – in 2024-25, it had 3.1 million page views, with 152 news stories, 135 blogs and 438 notices published that year.
Where you’ll work…
You'll mainly be based from our Bristol office or at one of our Forestry England offices across the country, with blended working options available. You'll need to travel to our national office in Bristol at least once a month, with occasional travel to other parts of England with plenty of notice.
Benefits…
Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
- 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
- STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
- free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
- a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.
Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website.
How to apply…
You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.
You will be assessed on a technical skill, strengths and experience based questions during your interview.
The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
The interview will include a skills exercise which you do not need to prepare in advance for.
Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.
If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.
If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.
Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.
Nationality requirements…
Read more about nationality requirements here.
Working for the Civil Service…
Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.
Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.
Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk.
