Land Management Project Officer

As a highly motivated individual, you’ll join a growing team of ‘working with natural processes’ practitioners operating across the South East region to reduce flooding and drought and will play a leading role in a establishing and promoting Natural Flood Management (NFM) and Regenerative Agriculture (RA) techniques. You’ll have a passion for the water environment, and experience of working with farmers and other land managers. The role requires good GIS skills, project management experience and an ability to develop, cost and deliver land management projects.

Operating at a catchment and holding scale you will develop an intimate understanding of the water catchment’s landscape and will collate, analyse and ground-truth data, identify NFM and RA project opportunities and organise research and feasibility studies. You will help land managers use NFM and RA techniques to improve business resilience, recover nature, capture carbon and retain water. You will offer advice to a wide range of people, helping to embed NFM and RA in land management systems and in the approaches of catchment partnerships, local flood action groups and other relevant bodies.

The post is based in the High Weald AONB Partnership’s innovative office at Flimwell on the Kent/Sussex border.

The working weeks and hours are flexible for this post.

For more on the High Weald AONB visit www.highweald.org

For further information or to discuss this post please contact Gerry Sherwin, AONB Business Manager on 01424 723014 or g.sherwin@highweald.org

To apply for this post please visit our website.

Closing date: 27 September 2020.

East Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit.