Website Developer

Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.

Together, we're using our scale and expertise to grow the nation's forests for everyone. We're already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber .

What you'll be doing

Forestry England's website is at the heart of our business - providing a quality user journey for all of our audiences, from mountain bikers and runners, to families, volunteers and timber buyers. As part of the web team, you will be at the core of shaping the website and influencing its development to drive more people to the nation's forests.

In this role, you will lead the technical development of the Forestry England website. You will be responsible for the website's ongoing maintenance and technical enhancement, ensuring it is available, secure and accessible. To do this, you'll also have the support of a technical agency and a website manager, and you'll deliver small development projects through this route too.

Drupal development skills are key to this role. We'll expect you to have significant experience of managing Drupal websites, and of keeping up-to-date with what Drupal can offer. Beyond these skills, you will have experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders to refine requirements, and of building designs or prototypes for review. You'll also have experience of building a development roadmap and communicating priorities to the wider business.

This role also supports other users to use the website and you'll have experience of successfully explaining technical information to non-technical colleagues.

You will be the internal technical expert and a willingness to troubleshoot other components, such as API's and embeds and supporting platforms will be welcome.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you'll work

Forestry England's digital team are predominantly based in the national office, in Bristol. Other locations for this role will be considered, but you must be willing to travel to the Bristol office at least twice a month, on a Tuesday.

Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

• 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year's service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaRis our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
• free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form.

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Delivering large, professional websites and digital projects, using Drupal.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email .

Read more about nationality requirements here.

Working for the Civil Service

Forestry England is part of the Civil Service . The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans andPrison Leaver Recruitment initiative.

Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.

Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: .

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• Job Reference forestryengland/TP/456/310
• Contract Type Permanent
• Closing Date 26 August, 2025
• Job Category Marketing and Communications
• Business Unit Marketing Communications and Strategy
• Location Bristol preferred but other locations will be considered , United Kingdom