Job Introduction
We are Forestry England.
We live and breathe forests.
Job title – Wildlife Recourses Manager
Salary - £32,089 - £32,724
Contract type – Full Time, Fixed Term Appointment, 1 year
Hours – 37 hours per week
Vacancy closes - 23:58 27th July 2025
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…
This is an exciting time to join Forestry England's Wildlife Management team. We are changing how we approach wildlife management with more volunteers and contractors supporting our professional team of wildlife rangers. You will:
- Work with teams across the organisation to develop and implement Forestry England’s Vision for Wildlife Management with a focus on volunteer lead control of squirrel, deer, mink and other species, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of volunteers and supporting the development of opportunities in this specialist area of wildlife management.
- Respond to enquiries related to squirrel and deer control volunteering and provide advice and support to teams to enhance understanding of their roles and responsibilities when managing volunteers, leading control tasks, and establishing new volunteer opportunities.
- Audit and record volunteer-led squirrel and deer control activities to ensure compliance with relevant policies and procedures, including Health and Safety, risk assessments, training, record keeping, and delivery of a high-quality volunteer experience.
- Support appropriate volunteer behaviour and assist with the resolution of any conflicts, encouraging respectful and timely communication between staff and volunteers involved in wildlife management.
- As your role develop we expect increased involvement in the management of a range of contracts including those for species control, survey work and larder systems.
Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.
Where you’ll work…
You will provide support across England so you should expect regular travel and some time away from home. Your reporting point will be Bellingham where a hot desk will be available. Other Forestry England locations can be considered. Home working will be available alongside regular office attendance.
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 experience and a technical skill during your interview.
The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a quality service
- Working together
- Making effective decisions
- Changing and improving
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.
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.
