Conservation Officer - Meirionnydd Oakwoods

In your role you will be responsible for delivering RSPB's Meirionnydd Oakwoods Priority Landscape Plan. The role will deliver a work programme focused on the conservation, enhancement, creation and restoration of our priority woodland habitats in the Meirionnydd Oakwoods SAC and surrounding landscapes. This will include partnership working, key species monitoring, woodland management, land management advice, overseeing conservation projects and engagement in woodland and forestry land use policy. This post will have a key role in furthering the development of the Eryri Rainforest Partnership, working with the Eryri National Park and other strategic partners on woodland conservation across the temperate rainforest zone in Eryri. The post will develop and manage programmes, projects and associated budgets, working with RSPB colleagues. You will be proactive with other key stakeholders to deliver ambitious targets for the sustainable management of woodland habitats through dynamic, evidence based and effective partnership working, ensuring RSPB's policies and messages are understood within relevant landscape partnerships and fora.

• Good understanding of woodland and forestry ecology and conservation; land use and management; relevant policy and legislation, and a range of delivery mechanisms for woodland habitat/species conservation.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to rapidly analyse significant quantities of information, to prioritise and balance a diverse workload often to tight deadlines.
• Competent user of core MS Office programmes.
• Experience of negotiating with the public or private sector, to deliver biodiversity benefits, through both regulatory and voluntary means.
• Experience of working to survey, protect and/or manage important sites, species or habitats.
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
• An ability to speak the Welsh language.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Competency in use of GIS.
• Experience of public engagement work.
• Effective project management skills.
• Understanding of the concept of landscape scale conservation and the pressures on land use in upland Wales.