Current Opportunities
Click on placement opportunities listed below for further details.
Current Opportunities
Click on the links for any of the placement opportunities listed below for further details.
Forest Operations/Land Management Higher Education Placement x 4
Employer: Natural Resources Wales
Location: Flexible within place
Salary: £21,065 (Grade 2)
Closing date: 31/01/2023
Summer Intern (Communications Department)
Employer: Scottish Land & Estates
Location: Musselburgh, Scotland (hybrid working available following induction)
Salary: £19,000 FTE
Closing date: 17/06/2022
Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships 2022
(closed)
Employer: Royal Society of Biology
Location: Various
Salary: £350 p/w
Closing date: 02/05/2022
Trainee Forester, Graduate or Placement Year Student Opportunities
(closed)
Employer: Norbury Park Estate
Location: West Staffordshire
Salary: £19,000
Closing date: 31/03/2022
Student Placements – up to 51 weeks(closed)
Employer: Northern Ireland Civil Service
Location: Throughout Northern Ireland
Salary: £18,783
Closing date: 18/03/2022 (12:00)
Forestry Intern(closed)
Employer: Heart of England Forest
Location: Dorsington, Warwickshire
Salary: £20,592 p.a.
Closing date: 27/02/2022
Mid-Year Student Placement(closed)
Employer: Euroforest
Location: UK wide
Salary: Paid
Closing date: 11/02/2022
10x Forestry Student Placement(closed)
Employer: Forestry and Land Scotland
Location: Scotland
Salary: Paid
Closing date: 10/02/2022
Higher Education Placement:
Forest Operations / Land Management (x4)(closed)
Employer: Natural Resources Wales
Location: Wales (Various)
Salary: £19,858
Closing date: 31/01/2022
Information and guidance
By providing university placements or helping young people to gain work experience, you and your business can reap real benefits. You will be accessing a potential pool of hidden talent – people who offer enthusiasm and a fresh perspective to your business. You may find your next full time employee. It can also help in developing the supervisory and management skills of your current workforce. Through supporting the local community, you will enhance your public profile.
Forestry Employers’ Toolkit
Launched in 2022, this toolkit was developed by the Institute of Chartered Foresters on behalf of the Forestry Skills Forum and funded by
the Forestry Commission. It offers guidance for forestry apprenticeships, training, and placement support in England, Scotland and Wales, addressing wages, responsibilities, funding and mentoring.
Making Work Experience Work: Top Tips for Employers
Produced by CIPD, this booklet includes practical advice for employers on the benefits of work experience, highlighting good recruitment and selection practices, and information on supporting and providing feedback to a young person during their placement. It draws on a range case studies and insight from employers, and shares top tips from employers on how to set-up and run a high-quality and successful work experience programme.
See also Not Just Making Tea…Reinventing Work Experience published by UKCES.
Health and safety advice
Employers may be concerned around health and safety when considering hosting work experience, and there are additional considerations if the individual is under the age of 18.
Why should I advertise through the Institute?
The Institute of Chartered Foresters is the professional body for forestry and arboriculture in the UK. With a membership of more than 2,000 professionals who are chartered or working to obtain chartered status in the near future, advertising your vacancy through us is the best way to directly target the best candidates who are committed to raising the professional standards in forestry and arboriculture and to the sustainable management of trees and woodlands in the UK.
Chartered status is the ultimate accreditation available to professionals in our sector and is awarded on completion of a rigorous professional examinations. It denotes an individual’s standing in the profession, as well as their academic achievements and professional experience. All Associate members are actively in pursuit of this goal by gathering the required experience to allow them to present for assessment.
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- forest and woodland managers
- urban and community woodland
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- wood processors
- forest scientists
- forestry and arboriculture educationalists
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