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Post Title: Project network officer
(The National
Coppice Restoration project)
Salary : £19,000
(pro rata)
Contract: 3 days per week ( initial 7 month
contract - leading to 3 year
contract dependent on funding success)
National Coppice Restoration
Project Background.
The coppicing and greenwood craft industry in the UK has been in serious decline
over the last century. The estimated 250,000 hectares of coppice woodland
that existed in the mid nineteenth century has declined to the current 22,000
hectares and this has contributed to the decline of many woodland species.
The national project, which has been funded
by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, aims to restore
and secure a national coppice resource that promotes
the value and importance of the coppice sector
as a method for delivering sustainable woodland
management.
The project will promote the concept that sustainable
coppice woodlands and the long term security
of their unique species can only be achieved
by establishing a balanced economic benefit.
The project will seek to form long term management
agreements between coppice groups and woodland
owners and begin to gather evidence of benefits
to bio-diversity through routine and long term
monitoring.
The Project Network Officer will help deliver the National Coppice Restoration
project based in the South. The project officer will network with coppice workers
and greenwood craft workers initially within the Hampshire area to develop
a business and training needs assessment.
The project officer post has been jointly funded
by Small Woods Association and Hampshire County
Council. The project officer will seek additional
funding to support the coppice sector based on
the results of the initial needs assessment and
to secure the continuation and expansion of the
post.
The project officer will be familiar with the
issues effecting the coppice sector and will
be able to communicate effectively with partner
organisations and individuals within the sector.
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