Project Support Officer - Nature Recovery

About the role:

The Project Support Officer will play a key role in supporting Powys County Council to progress actions to deliver against its declaration of a Nature Emergency. The postholder will work alongside the Council's Nature Recovery Officer to ensure that the work delivery plan is fulfilled and that monitoring and reporting requirements are met.

About you:

• An interest for connecting people with nature and developing realistic and sustainable actions to support its recovery.
• Enthusiasm and the ability to communicate effectively, to engage a range of audiences, from community groups to partner organisations, Council officers and the Powys Nature Partnership.
• Be able to work under own initiative, to organise a varied workload and to collaborate with a wider team to achieve the best outcomes.
• Be able to monitor and co-ordinate the collation of any statistical returns, ensuring that information is provided/submitted in a timely manner within set deadlines.

What you will do:

• Engage with communities, businesses, public bodies and others in local activity that can help enable a long-term, sustainable difference to nature recovery across Powys (excluding Brecon Beacons National Park). This will include engagement events.
• Work alongside the Nature Recovery Officer and liaise with the Powys Nature Partnership to support activities that will deliver against the Powys Nature Recovery Action Plan.
• Support colleagues in activity to their implementation of their duties under section 6 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016.
• Support the delivery of nature recovery projects, within the Local Places for Nature programme