Job Introduction
We are Forestry England.
We live and breathe forests.
Job title – Communications Officer
Salary- £33,854 per annum
Contract type – 3 Year Fixed Term Appointment with the possibility of extension or permanency
Hours – 37 hours per week
Vacancy closes - 16th July, 23:58
Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.
Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.
What You’ll Do…
Forestry England is seeking a creative and organised Communications Officer to support delivery of high-quality, integrated communications across a range of priority areas, including our partnership with Forest Holidays.
Working within the Brand and Engagement team and reporting to a Communications Manager, you will play a key role in delivering engaging content, supporting campaigns, and helping to tell the story of Forestry England’s work to a wide range of audiences, ensuring the use of Forestry England’s tone of voice and brand guidelines.
The role will involve supporting communications activity linked to Forest Holidays’ new sites development, helping to ensure consistent messaging and strong partnership working. The remainder of the role will support wider organisational priorities, contributing to campaigns and projects that connect people with our forests and our work.
This role requires strong storytelling ability, excellent organisational skills, and the confidence to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners across the business.
Where you’ll work…
You can be based anywhere in the country from any Forestry England office, and we support hybrid working from home. The duties of this post require the post holder to travel across England occasionally, with overnight stays away from home, and regular visits to the national office in Bristol.
Benefits…
Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

• 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.
How To Apply
You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.
You will be assessed on experience, a technical skill and strength based questions during your interview.
The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –

• Communicating and influencing
• Working together
• Managing a quality service
• Delivering at pace
  

Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.
If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.
If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.
Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.
Nationality Requirements.
Read more about nationality requirements here.
Working for the Civil Service
Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.
Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.
Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk.
Attached documents

• Forestry England Job Description - Communications Officer.pdf
  

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