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Dolgellau, Wales, United Kingdom

Direct regulation through assenting and consenting of activities, and securing effective pro-active management through advice, guidance and developing management agreements and partnerships. Key Job Accountabilities: • Work with a wide range of internal and external customers including permit holders, landowners, businesses, public bodies, recreation groups, volunteers and third sector organisations to enable others to achieve sustainable management of natural resources SMNR. • Establish, maintain and advise partners to support the development of partnership projects and plans through from concepts to implementation. • Assess compliance with relevant legislation, permit or consent conditions. Where non-compliance is identified, determine and implement the most appropriate intervention option to ensure a return to compliance as quickly as possible. Take appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures. • Draft valid consents and assents for operations affecting protected sites. For all work areas produce required advice, investigations, documentation and reports to agreed quality standards to support operational and management decisions, protected site notification, public enquiries, court cases etc so that information, evidence and NRW interests are accurately and effectively presented. • Provide professional local advice and responses to agricultural consultations from planning and permitting teams. Maintain working relationships with these teams through regular liaison. • Monitor progress of work, which include interpretation of data, contractor management, project delivery or compliance with management agreements or statutory legal notices. Identify and support any remedial actions to ensure outcome delivery. • Play a role in a resilient NRW Incident Management Service that follows NRW process to ensure effective, timely and safe response to incidents.

Dolgellau, Wales, United Kingdom

Play a defined role to achieve sustainable management of natural resources SMNR through the delivery of a multi-functional team remit at place. Key Job Accountabilities: • Work with a wide range of internal and external customers including permit holders, landowners, businesses, public bodies, recreation groups, volunteers and third sector organisations to enable others to achieve SMNR. • Establish, maintain and advise partners to support the development of partnership projects and plans through from concepts to implementation. These projects will deliver outcomes aligned with place priorities. • Assess compliance with relevant legislation, permit or consent conditions. Where non-compliance is identified, determine and implement the most appropriate intervention option to ensure a return to compliance as quickly as possible. Take appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures. • Produce required advice, investigations, documentation and reports to agreed quality standards to support operational and management decisions, public enquiries, court cases etc so that information, evidence and NRW interests are accurately and effectively presented. • Provide professional local advice and responses to agricultural consultations from planning and permitting teams. Maintain working relationships with these teams through regular liaison.• Monitor progress of work, which include interpretation of data, contractor management, project delivery or compliance with management agreements or statutory legal notices. Identify and support any remedial actions to ensure outcome delivery. • Play a role in a resilient NRW Incident Management Service that follows NRW process to ensure effective, timely and safe response to incidents.

Bangor, North Wales, Uk

Main responsibilities:• To deliver agricultural projects and activities to reduce agricultural pollution in the dairy sector by working proactively in poor performing catchments engaging with farmers and land managers• Provide advice and guidance on pollution prevention and compliance• Help influence and implement best farming practices and where necessary take protective enforcement action to achieve compliance• Work closely with and help coordinate current and planned catchment initiatives and partnerships• In Nitrate Vulnerable Zones help farmers understand what the requirements are to achieve compliance under the new NVZ Regulations• Seek further funding opportunities through partnership working and Regional Development Plan projects to help assist in developing innovative ideas, technology and practices which have the potential to further reduce agricultural pollution.

Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, North Wales

Main responsibilities:• Promote good relations between local inhabitants, visitors, the agricultural community and conservation interests. To respond to queries from the public, communities and other organisations.• Provide effective countryside management in my area which is over 86 sq. miles, which involves the management and development of over 250 miles of public rights of way, leisure networks and access to the open countryside. Carry out surveys and management and maintenance work and advise over priorities, programmes and budgets. Manage park property and provide practical estate and conservation management.• Provide guidance, information and interpretation to visitors and assist with school visits.• Monitor leisure activities to promote public safety and to provide liaison with rescue services and the police. Promote the compliance of visitors with the country code and the access charter.• Supervise and monitor staff, contractors and other labour forces, including volunteers, whilst ensuring safe working practices, produce specific site and generic risk assessments.Main achievements: • Develop excellent customer service as good public relations is vital for the role, as was demonstrated in managing public pressure during the Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001, where public access was restricted for over 6 months.• Develop vast knowledge of public rights of way issues and mountain safety, together with carrying out numerous conservation projects ranging from otter survey to marsh fritillaries to barn owls.• Efficient in use of desktop and hand-held computers with Microsoft office, GIS, GPS and other mapping software.• Successfully manage a 5-year partnership project working with the Countryside Council for Wales as a National Nature Reserve Manager for Morfa Harlech sand dune system (2008 – 2013).

Dolgellau, United Kingdom

Main responsibilities:• Provide detailed advice on conservation management to landowners and Officers for farms lying within or adjacent to SSSI’s.• Preparing notices of consent for potentially damaging operations on SSSI’s• Assist the District Officer on all aspects of district casework e.g. SSSI management plans.Main achievements:• Develop rapport with the agricultural community and gain confidence when dealing with difficult confrontations.• Adapting the conservation management planning system for two different woodland SSSI’s.

Llanfair, Harlech. United Kingdom

Main responsibilities:• To assist the reserve managers in the practical and scientific management of several National Nature Reserves, including sand dune systems, native broad leaved woodlands to mountainous sites.Main achievements: • Learn a huge variety of practical estate skills – use of power tools, dry stone walling, fencing, chainsaw and tree work.• February 1996 for 4 weeks assisted with the clear up of oil polluted bays and coves of the Pembrokeshire coast following the Sea Empress tanker disaster. Duties included booming of oil and the painful recording and identification of all dead oiled sea birds collected.

Cader Idris National Nature Reserve. United Kingdom

Main responsibilities:• Advise and inform the general public and to maintain footpaths, buildings and boundary structures to a safe standard.

Caernarfon. United Kingdom

Main responsibilities:• Analyse Definitive Maps and associated Statements and to compare to the footpaths on the ground.

Introduction To Agriculture

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Biology, Distinction

Post Graduate Diploma, Countryside Management

Bachelor Of Science - Combined Honours, Geography And Geology