Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator

Description:

Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator
Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset (with hybrid working and travel across the National Park to visit sites)

About Us

Exmoor National Park is a unique and beautiful part of the country. Our vision is to ensure Exmoor National Park has a thriving living landscape and is a place where people can enjoy and benefit from Exmoor’s special qualities and sustainable communities.

The Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) funding programme has been set up to enable areas of outstanding natural beauty, such as Exmoor, to do more for nature, climate, people, and place.

We are now looking for a Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator to join us on a full-time basis, for a fixed-term contract until the 31st March 2025.

The Benefits

- Salary of £26,421 - £29,777 per annum
- 28 days’ holiday per annum, plus Bank Holidays
- Paid sickness leave
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working options

This is a brilliant opportunity for a business, finance or project support professional with local authority and conservation project experience to join our organisation as we oversee Exmoor’s rich and diverse landscape.

You’ll get to play a pivotal part in supporting land managers to help them do more for nature, climate, people, and place.

What’s more, you’ll be working alongside likeminded, dedicated teams and will benefit from personal development reviews and support to develop your knowledge, skills and experience.

The Role

As a Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator, you will provide key support to the FIPL programme, focusing on administration.

You will be involved in a range of administration and support work, financial management of projects, technical support, and project and programme evaluation.

Developing a range of processes and protocols to enable project monitoring and ensure compliance, you will support programme evaluation including reporting to DEFRA and external evaluators.

You will undertake the financial management of multiple projects, monitoring expenditure and providing progress updates, as well as implementing financial management procedures regarding incoming and outgoing expenditure.

Providing technical support for the programme, you will also:

- Arrange meetings, training, events, and workshops
- Prepare papers and take minutes for meetings
- Maintain filing systems
- Assemble reports, and process panel members’ expenses

About You

To be considered as a Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator, you will need:

- Experience in a relevant business, finance, or project support role
- Experience of administrative systems and practice in a local authority setting
- Experience of supporting the delivery of conservation projects and programmes through administrative duties and basic communications
- Experience of monitoring and recording expenditure through local authority systems
- Experience of scheduling meetings and taking accurate, confidential minutes
- A full, valid driving licence

The closing date for this role is 2nd May 2024.

Other organisations may call this role EA, PA, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, Project Administrator, Project Co-ordinator, Local Authority Administrator, Secretary, Executive Administrative Assistant, Executive Personal Assistant, or Executive Office Assistant.

Webrecruit and Exmoor National Park Authority are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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