Responsibilities
Assisting the farming team with a variety of farm management activities including:
- The record keeping and harvest account management of contract farming agreements
- Financial monitoring and analysis including helping to prepare budgets and cashflow forecasts, quarterly variance reports and financial interrogation
- SFI applications and Countryside Stewardship (Higher Tier), farm budgeting and project management including compliance and monitoring of schemes, advice and instructions to client/contractors, claims monitoring and management
- Technical advice on mainstream arable and livestock enterprises
- Advising on environmental issues and farm diversification
- Developing and maintaining a set of client contacts
- Driving business development
- Regular farm visits
- Advising on compliance with current and upcoming government legislation and guidance.
- Assisting with the preparing internal and external reports
- Maintaining and developing relevant personal and technical skills
- Attending relevant conferences, seminars, and training sessions.
Person specification
The successful candidate is likely to be:
- A good communicator, both written and oral.
- A team player, able to develop a close working relationship with colleagues
- Commercially astute with good numeracy skills
- Ambitious, energetic, self-motivated, curious, and happy to network with a business development orientated attitude.
- Interested in farming and food production systems.
- Experience of hands-on practical farming
Skills/Qualifications
- Previous farm consultancy advisor role
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- Excellent IT skills including use of MS Office.
- Practical farm experience would be beneficial