Farm Advisor

Overview

As Farm Advisor, you help farmers, growers and landowners build resilient farming businesses while delivering benefits for rivers and nature. You’ll be the on-the-ground face for farm engagement, supporting the Holistic Water for Horticulture project and broader water resilience work. You’ll visit farms, create farm plans, and identify practical opportunities to improve water management and soil health. You’ll collaborate with partners to develop projects, secure funding, and demonstrate impact.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible hybrid working
• opportunities to develop expertise in farm advisory, water resilience and catchment management
• travel cost coverage within the SERT region (mileage paid)
• office attendance up to 4 times a month
• dynamic, values-led workplace

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with farmers, growers and landowners to identify practical opportunities for resilience, water management and environmental gains
• Conduct farm visits, assessments and produce farm plans to support on-farm projects
• Provide advice on water resources, water efficiency, nature-based solutions, diffuse pollution and funding opportunities
• Support development of project pipelines, business cases and funding proposals to secure investment
• Collaborate with colleagues, water companies, regulators and other partners to deliver integrated, catchment-scale projects
• Support monitoring and evidence collection to demonstrate impact and inform future delivery

Key requirements

• Experience advising farmers, growers, landowners or rural businesses on land, water or environmental management
• Good understanding of farming systems, water resilience and sector challenges
• Experience developing and delivering environmental or land management projects
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with ability to influence diverse audiences
• Good organisational and problem-solving skills, with ability to manage multiple priorities
• Proactive and collaborative approach with passion for sustainable farming and healthy catchments

• strong communication
• relationship-building
• influencing skills
• experience advising on land, water or environmental management
• understanding of farming systems
• project development and delivery

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