National Locations Manager (Maternity Cover)

Job summary

What you’ll do…

You’ll be joining a productive and successful Brand and Corporate Partnerships team. Since 2020, we have brought in millions of additional funding in support of our work, and you’ll help us take this to the next level.

We’re looking for someone who shares our ambitious vision in promoting Forestry England and our forests on a cinematic platform.

You will report to the Head of Brand and Corporate Partnerships and will be a confident and engaging location manager with a detailed understanding of the film and tv industry along with broadcast, commercial and stills productions. You’ll have experience of negotiating fees and contracts, with knowledge of copyright law in relation to film and TV work.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work…

The position spans the entire country, requiring regular national travel while also supporting flexible blended working.

Job description

Day to day responsibilities for the role can be summarised as the following:

• Liaise closely with incoming productions, supporting and advising from enquiry through to wrap & reinstatement.
• Support colleagues across departments and regions, in facilitating filming.
• Budget, track and report on filming related income and expenditure; working to targets and responding to opportunities nationwide.
• Develop our portfolio and carry out regular site visits to photograph and survey potential locations.
• Manage external relationships with film offices, councils and other industry organisations.
• Promote the work of Forestry England and our locations within the TV and Film sector and engage with industry opportunities both internally and externally (including potential screen tourism offerings).
• Advise on best work practices and review the necessary paperwork ensuring that filming activity is carried out in a professional, safe, sensitive and sustainable manner.

And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager.

Person specification

Essential professional and technical experience

• Strong understanding of managing the changeable needs of a production or crew and their operational, creative and logistical requirements.
• Experience of negotiating fees and contracts, managing budgets and working to income generation targets.
• A strong set of industry contacts to help promote and establish Forestry England locations within the sector.
• Good working knowledge of copyright law with reference to film, photography and TV work.
• Able to advise senior leaders and colleagues across departments on specialist commercial opportunities, and how to make the most of them.
• Able to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Comfortable independently managing competing priorities across multiple national locations; and timescales.
• Excellent communication and decision-making skills, with a solution-focused approach.

Desirable professional and technical experience

• An understanding of the ecological, environmental and recreation impacts of filming/ photography crews, and how to minimise and mitigate this.
• A good creative eye and photography experience, helping to identify potential locations and develop further our portfolio.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• To be confirmed.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £48,765, Forestry Commission contributes £14,127 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits…

Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

• 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
• free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

How to apply…

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.

You will be assessed on a technical skill, experience and strength based questions during your interview.

The Behaviours being assessed at interview are –

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

First interviews will take place on 12th February. This date is subject to change.

Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.

If you're planning to use AI to support your application, please ensure you've read our guidelines here first.

Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : FC Recruitment Team
• Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk

Further information

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact FCE by email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

Attachments

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