Job Description
Job Summary: Team Leader Northwest Connacht (Agri-environmental) ACRES - West Connacht Co-operation Projects
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Team Leader to lead our Northwest Connacht project team in delivering the ACRES agri-environment scheme. The successful candidate will have a strong background in agriculture, ecology, or a related discipline, and excellent leadership and communication skills.
About the Role
The Team Leader will be responsible for leading a team of project officers in supporting participant farmers, delegating work to ensure a coordinated approach, and ensuring necessary resources are allocated to each local area. The role will also involve coordinating and delivering training events, community outreach, and farm visits, as well as preparing reports and presentations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the local team of project officers in supporting participant farmers
- Delegate work to local staff to ensure a coordinated approach is taken to implementing the scheme across the region
- Ensure necessary resources are allocated to each of the local areas to ensure supports are available to farmers and farm advisors
- Supervise project staff and monitor workloads being assigned
- Coordinate and deliver training events to farmers and farm advisors
- Organise and partake in community outreach events
- Coordinate and partake in assessment of farmland habitats
- Coordinate and undertake farm visits to monitor farm implementation and success of actions
- Preparation of reports, training materials, and presentations as required
- Liaise with local and regional stakeholders and interested parties on the project
- Work closely with the wider project team
Requirements
- A degree in agriculture, ecology, archaeology or a related discipline
- A full clean driver's licence
- Minimum of two years' experience in a leadership role
- Exceptional communication skills
- Ability to multitask and excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise
- Positive can-do attitude and be willing to learn and contribute to the long-term goals of the company
- Be flexible and prepared to work in any required area
- Highly efficient and self-motivated; ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- Proven management and leadership skills
- Have a positive, enthusiastic, pragmatic, solution driven approach to work
- A willingness to actively participate as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
- An ability to manage their own workload, ensuring that work is carried out on schedule
- Good computer skills, particularly in the use of Microsoft Office software
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
- Post-graduate qualification
- Knowledge and experience relevant to ecology, archaeology, hydrology or related discipline
- Knowledge and experience relevant to agriculture policy and results-based payment schemes
- Strong knowledge of farmland habitats (peatland & grassland) and their indicator species
- Experience in the preparation and monitoring of farm plans
- Experience of providing agri-environmental advice and support to farmers
- Experience of using digital mapping and database systems
Salary and Employment Details
The team leader will be employed on a full-time fixed term contract basis. The contract period is expected to run for 5 years, and may be extended annually there-after, subject to continuing funding and needs of the project. Salary: €44,000 to €49,000 per annum depending on qualifications and experience (+ 4% employer pension contribution)
Other Benefits
- Travel and subsistence expenses will be paid monthly
- Opportunity to contribute to a pension, with an annual employer contribution of 4% of salary per annum
- Annual leave: 20 days per annum, increasing to 22 days after one year of service, further increasing to 24 days after three years of service
- Ongoing training and continual professional development opportunities available