Senior Agricultural Officer – Water & Wildlife Friendly Farming

Senior Agricultural Officer focuses on build long-term, trusted relationships with landowners, tenant farmers, and agricultural stakeholders.

What the role involves

• Build long-term, trusted relationships with landowners, tenant farmers, and agricultural stakeholders.
• Delivering targeted, one-to-one advice to farmers to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution and improve soil and water management.
• Support adoption of nature-based solutions,and regenerative farming practices.
• Design and implement on-farm capital works (e.g. farm water storage, fencing, sediment traps, slurry infrastructure improvements).
• Ensure projects meet environmental outcomes for water quality, habitat enhancement, and species recovery.
• Planning and delivery of Environmentally sustainable farming practices.

Skills and requirements

• Significant experience advising farmers on environmentally sustainable agriculture.
• Ability to work flexibly to fit with farming timetables - some evening and weekend working may be required.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout the catchment.
• Degree (or equivalent experience) in agriculture, environmental science, or a related field.

Candidate fit

• Opportunity to drive meaningful environmental change across landscapes.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Membership of the Rivers Trust Pension scheme.

Additional role context

• Support and line-manage staff within the land use team - Currently one Assistant Project Officer.
• Secure the long-term viability of RTCT's farming support activities, through securing sustainable funding sources, and providing a service which is trusted and valued by land manag.
• Contribute to wider Trust Strategy, including ensuring farming support activities are complimentary to and achieve synergies with other areas of the Trust's activities.