21675 - Project Management Support

- Work up successful landowner agreement process that is relevant to PSDCF and targeted land owners and land uses in area of PSDCF. This will involve: o Ensuring that any offer mets the Terms and Conditions coming from the Grant Awarding body (DEFRA via Cheshire West Council), o reviewing existing woodland creation offers available to landowners (e.g. EWCO, other woodland creation partnerships), o assessing cash flow from CF and landowner perspectives and linking this with work on wider finance modelling for PSDCF (NB specialist finance support will be in place to collaborate on this) o running two consultation events and subsequent exercise, for PCSDCF to enable schemes to be developed in a timely way for year 2 planting pipeline. (8 hours per week)

- Develop and expand on current year 2 (22/23) planting pipeline of 100ha by working with landowners and partners to identify: o new opportunities for tree planting schemes o developing existing schemes including land owner agreements, o planting plans, o EIA and regulatory requirements o list of trees reservation of stock ready for procurement. (8 hours per week)

- High level project management support for delivery of year 1 21/22 PSDCF tree planting pipeline (3 hours per week) including: o Co-ordination of project programme with project board o budget management of programme, o updating risk register o reporting progress with tree planting programme o Supporting Head of Environment Planning to meet Community Forest Trust (CFT) reporting requirements and manage budgets. o Supporting Green Estate team to meet the year 1 planting programme as needed, including contributing to the planning and delivery of community engagement

- Attendance at meetings as part of the Project Delivery Team (2 hours per week)