Farm Environment Adviser (Somerset)

FWAG SW is seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Farm Environment Adviser to join our team covering Somerset. You will have a broad range of skills and experience including practical experience, either on farm or in a nature conservation setting, professionally engaging with and facilitating our farmers and landowners.

With growing demand to provide advice to farmers on agroecological practices, we are looking for someone who can bring their own specialisms and experience to enhance our team. This may be agricultural diffuse pollution, regenerative farming, delivering the public goods policy agenda or supporting future farm resilience.

Our Farm Environment Advisers provide high quality environmental advice to farmers and stakeholders supported by several different funding streams via in-person farm visits, events and workshops. Advice needs to be based on a whole-farm context and consider the current regulations and agri-environmental schemes available; on-farm resilience and profitability; species and habitat management; diffuse pollution mitigation; soil and nutrient management; NFM; protection of archaeological features and landscape value. There are opportunities to develop and manage your own projects and to become a technical specialist in conservation, land management, soil husbandry or natural flood management (NFM) techniques, depending on your interest.

We deliver several different funded projects supporting water quality within Somerset’s rivers. Our main project is the Hills to Levels project providing a catchment approach, aiming to slow the flow, reduce flood risk and erosion, improve water quality and deliver wider environmental benefits and increased resilience on the floodplain. Within this project, we advise farmers, landowners and communities through farm visits, community events, management plans, soil and nutrient management plans, workshops, farm demonstrations and walks and newsletter articles. We initiate, design and oversee the implementation of NFM and land management measures, to hold and slow the flow of the water, support soil infrastructure and habitat restoration/creation while increasing biodiversity.

If you are educated to degree level and/or have relevant experience in a related role, coupled with a passion and interest in our work, we'd love to hear from you. 

We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds within the sector, whether that is environment and wildlife, soils, nutrients, farm infrastructure, farm management, cropping, livestock, Integrated Pest Management or NFM. We are an open and inclusive organisation seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce.