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FLS are looking for x2 MTB Rangers for Tweed Valley. Not often that jobs like these come up, full time, permanent and fair pay.
Edit: I can't get link to work. Search FLS Vacancy - Filter to £25-3£0k Salary, South Region and it is the first job on the page.
You might even get to work with me occasionally!
Tease, I don't see it 😬
what's FLS? that will help for a start, searching google for "FLS vacancy" brings up nothing remotely applicable
Whilst it looks brilliant, and I’d love to do it it’s worth reading through the required and desirable skills sections of the role profile. £29.5k looks pretty stingy.
Forestry and Land Scotland
Much of my working life was in the rangering/countryside management/ NT sector, I never rose above 25k pa despite considerable responsibility, and a pretty good "skillset". (Didn't want to become a public sector middle manager shuffling staff and budgets). Unfortunately jobs in this sector are under-rewarded as there's a perception that folk who work in this sector do so for lifestyle/idealistic reasons. Look like interesting roles, no doubt with some challenging blockages. And 29ks pretty good. I'll pass it on to my son who might well be interested!
If I were in Scotland I would be all over that....
Whilst it looks brilliant, and I’d love to do it it’s worth reading through the required and desirable skills sections of the role profile. £29.5k looks pretty stingy.
Totally disagree. There's nothing on the essential criteria list that I wouldn't expect a new graduate from a relevant subject (and/or someone who's been in a similar field for a few years) to have. Desirable criteria are hardly esoteric either.
Looks great to me!
Experience
Essential:
• Experience of working in a public facing setting within the countryside, recreation or tourism
sectors
• Great communication skills – you'll be an enthusiastic communicator that develops
relationships and rapport naturally with a wide range of people;
• Self-driven and used to lone working without direct supervision, using your judgement to take
decisions appropriate to circumstance;
Desirable:
• Staff management or supervisory experience
• Experience of working with communities
• Project management experience
• Experience of working within a visitor centre or similar
• Experience of managing Outdoor Access and working knowledge of Land Reform Scotland Act
• Knowledge of countryside and land management, with a commitment to learn more
Technical
Essential:
• Basic countryside management and/or practical maintenance skills
• You can offer a flexible approach to working hours, as regular evening, morning and weekend
working will be required
• Able to work comfortably in all weathers and all terrains, including rough terrains;
• A full driving licence
• Competent in the use of IT and social media with a good working knowledge of Microsoft
applications including Excel, Word and Outlook
Desirable:
• A recognised qualification in tourism, recreation management or equivalent
• Ability to use GIS or equivalent software, with a commitment to learn more
I agree, for the industry and sector that is above average salary.
If I were in Scotland I would be all over that….
This +1000 and I'd be happy with the pay cut for that sort of work. Wife would just have to go back full time....
Fair enough. From my reading of it though they want someone with project management experience, who’s also had staff management experience (i.e a managerial position). Genuine project management skills don’t come cheap. They’re also expected to be a competent mountain biker.
Whilst I get that that might be a decent salary for the industry £29k seems pretty poor when inflation is 8-10%.
You'd really expect a new graduate to be "used to lone working without direct supervision"?
I don't think doing your homework counts...
@thecaptain you wouldn't?
I've managed a succession of under 25s in the past decade, and I've currently got two 'new' (less than three years out of uni) grads in my team. Admittedly it's a totally different sphere but I'd 100% trust at least one of them to operate in that way.
(Obviously nowhere on the job spec does it say new grad and I'd expect this to go to someone with more experience, I was just making the point that I don't think the criteria are out of line with a salary of £29k. I do imagine though, that competition for these particular posts will be very hot.)
If my mortgage were paid off I'd give that an application.
Hit pretty much all of that bar the last two. Mrs100th would not be impressed with what it would do to my pension or more importantly me swanning off the play in the woods.
<p>No @finbar, how do you think such experience will have been gained by someone while at university? They could have some relevant experience (I didn’t mention the requirement for public-facing work experience) but it’s unlikely they would have risen to such a responsible role. <br /><br /></p><p>Trusting someone to act in that way isn’t the same thing as demanding evidence that they have already performed at that level. </p>
Genuine project management skills don’t come cheap. They’re also expected to be a competent mountain biker.
They are not asking for a PM, just someone who has had experience working in a project, massively different.
Looks well paid to me by the spec. Similar to what a nurse gets paid, and I would argue not as hard a job (potentially)
Looks pretty good for the industry which generally expects a lot for very little and involves a lot of lone working in remote locations.
My experience and current position isn't far off what @gallowayboy mentions and a combination that leaves me a little trapped.
bump for the evening crowd