Planning & Environment Officer

We are Forestry England. We are the country’s largest land manager, caring for the nation’s
forests for people, nature and the economy. The foundation of our organisation is our
world-class sustainable management of the nation’s forests.

Our South England Forest District team is made up of around 160 people. Our team contains a
diverse range of roles – from wildlife rangers to civil engineers, and ecologists to marketing
professionals, we all contribute towards the management of some 46,000 hectares of public
forest estate and national parks that stretch from Sussex to Dorset, and from Berkshire to the
Isle of Wight. Much of this forest is of high national importance for nature conservation and
wildlife, and of international importance for biodiversity.

We are looking for a Planning & Environment Officer to join the Planning and Environment Team who are
responsible for creating forest management plans to support the district to design resilient
woodlands considering key issues such as climate change, and the different ways that people
will want to use our forests in future. 

The Planning and Environment Officer will work closely with our GIS technician to develop and
integrate GIS based systems to support colleagues across the South Forest District. A
significant focus is spent liaising with teams to provide GIS and IT solutions with the
emphasis on analysing information and developing databases. The Planning and Environment
Officer will also contribute to the preparation and development of forest plans which will
require travel across the district.

If you have expertise working with GIS and Microsoft applications and are ready for a new
challenge delivering excellence in sustainable forest management by supporting, updating and
developing systems, then we’d love to hear from you.

For more information on how to apply please visit www.forestryengland.uk or click
here to apply now. For an informal chat, please contact [email protected].