Senior Officer - River Wye Restoration

The role

The Upper Wye Catchment Restoration Team was created to deliver improvements that address a range of pressures affecting the Upper Wye Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The project aims to reach agreements with farmers and landowners to carry out fully funded work on their land to:

- restore and improve habitat in the river, on the river banks and in the wider catchment

- reduce sediment and pollutants entering the rivers

- improve the resilience of the river to extreme weather events and warmer temperatures resulting from climate change.

You will report to the Upper Wye Catchment Restoration Team Leader and work alongside two other senior officers in the team, each leading on your own area of expertise.

Your role will include office working and site working in mid Wales. You will plan, deliver and supervise farm advisory visits, seeking to identify areas where works could be carried out to further the project aims. Good communication skills are essential for collaborating with landowners and other organisations to carry out our work on their land. You will also plan, deliver and supervise river restoration works and programmes of survey and treatment of invasive non-native plant species (INNS).

You will provide advice and guidance to team members on Environmental Policy and Regulations, Protected Species, and on river restoration and conservation best practice. Where improvement works are appropriate, you will be responsible for applying for environmental consents and making formal agreements with landowners. You will require excellent project management skills, including procuring and managing NRW framework contractors to deliver the recommended works on time and to budget.

It is desirable but not essential for you to have a current Protected Species Licences for site survey and licencing work, ideally this would include otter, bats and schedule 1 birds.

Together with other team members, you will support the Team Leader in ensuring delivery of the project objectives and targets and in reporting progress according to agreed milestones. You will ensure good governance of the project, including strict adherence to NRW’s procurement and wellbeing, health and safety practices.

As an organisation we support flexible working.

- You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face - meetings or training will be planned in advance.

- You will be contracted to the NRW office at the above location and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

Interviews will take place through Microsoft Teams.

To make an informal enquiry about this role contact Susie Tudge at susie.tudge@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.go.uk

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.