Responsibilities

• This role leads communications and public engagement for a high-profile national programme to create and install Covid-19 commemorative features in the nation’s forests.
• These features will provide spaces for reflection, remembrance and recognition of the lives lost, the impact of the pandemic, and the sacrifices made across society.
• Working closely with the programme director, a multidisciplinary team and communications colleagues in Forestry England’s national team and six districts, you will manage all aspects of communications for creating and installing the features in forests.
• This will include media relations and stakeholder and community engagement.
• The role requires strong communications management, excellent content creation skills, and a commitment to inclusive and accessible communications.
• As well as excellent communications skills, this role requires the ability to lead compassionate engagement with people affected by loss and trauma, ensuring their voices are heard and reflected with care, respect and dignity.
• This is a fixed-term role aligned to the lifespan of the programme, with a strong emphasis on legacy, accessibility, and community collaboration.

Requirements

• The role requires strong communications management, excellent content creation skills, and a commitment to inclusive and accessible communications.
• Travel across England will be required with occasional overnight stays necessary.
• This is a fixed-term role aligned to the lifespan of the programme, with a strong emphasis on legacy, accessibility, and community collaboration.
• This role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.
• The role will be based in a local Forestry England office with flexibility for blended working.

Benefits

• 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.