FFermio Bro Project Officer
Location : Brecon
Salary: A GBP 35,235 : A GBP 37,938 per annum
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract until 31 st March 2028
The Role
Like similar roles in Waless other Designated Landscapes, the Ffermio Bro Project Officer will administer and coordinate the projects, engagement and advice, ensuring that farmers and other landowners can access the right funding, supporting them through the application process and monitoring delivery of activities. Designed to encourage and facilitate collaboration and clusters, the role will encourage and facilitate group work including encouraging reluctant parties. This role is the cornerstone of the Programme in this National Park and requires excellent knowledge of farming, conservation, budgetary control, project management and teamwork to connect the agricultural and land management community to the funding available and to the nature conservation community.
For this Programme, the role will co:ordinate the National Park Authoritys farmer and landowner engagement. The work requires regular farm:based work within the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, working with farmers, other landowners and National Park Authority staff. The role is strongly team:based.
Key Duties:
* Administering and co:ordinating on:the:ground delivery of the Ffermio Bro:Farming in Designated Landscapes programme in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, on behalf of the National Park Authority.
* Liaising with National Park Authority colleagues to identify and confirm potential Programme applicants, ensuring that appropriate advice on conservation activities is available and provided, supporting applicants through the application process.
* Providing the single liaison point for this Programme between the National Park Authority and the Welsh Government / Rural Payments Wales.
* Providing the single liaison point between the National Park Authority and the Designated Landscapes Nature Recovery Programme Manager, who advises each Designated Landscape organisation on the Programme.
* Liaising with the Nature Recovery Programme Manager for project and Programme evaluation and monitoring.
* Providing a primary point of contact for the potential farmer / landowner applicants to the National Park Ffermio Bro Programme, supporting them through their applications.
* Liaising with the National Park Authority wardens and specialists to develop, amend and improve Programme content, to advise and support farmer and landowner applicants, helping to guide subsequent delivery where required and to facilitate cluster / collaborative applications.
* Co:ordinating and compiling the National Park Authoritys programme:specific advice on conservation, land management and access and engagement, to promote high quality applications to the Programme.
* Managing the work balance between good project management, budget management, data management including GIS, liaison with colleagues and advice to applicants and grant beneficiaries, including on:site advice.
* Signposting applicants to other appropriate funding sources.
* Supporting the work of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Ffermio Bro Assessment Panel, including the preparation and presentation of summary reports, including application scoring and evaluations and recommendations on applications.
* Liaising with the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park advisory group on agriculture, SÃr Ffermio, on matters of relevance to Ffermio Bro.
* Ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of support offered under the Programme, including where relevant, the management of multi:year agreements.
* Maintaining accurate data, records and monitoring of the Programme and applicants progress towards the completion of funded projects.
* Ensuring that financial claims and supporting evidence align with National Park Authority financial procedures and that these are provided to Rural Payments Wales in the required specification and to timetable.