The Farming Community Network are looking for a new Regional Director for Wales - if you know someone who fits the bill, give them a shout.
Following the retirement of the previous incumbent, FCN is seeking a new Regional Director for Wales.
FCN (The Farming Community Network) is a national, multi-denominational Christian charity providing practical and pastoral support to farming families facing difficulties in the farm business or in the home, which are causing them stress and anxiety. Available across England and Wales, FCN operates telephone and e-mail Helplines between the hours of 7am and 11pm every day of the year. Callers can then be referred on to one of around 400 Volunteers working in 33 groups across England and Wales. The Volunteers walk alongside farming families for as long as they are needed. The service is free of charge and is completely confidential.
Volunteers are supported by a national staff team which ensures that FCN operates legally, professionally and with due care for clients, Volunteers and Staff whilst being adequately funded and promoted, thereby ensuring that FCN is available wherever and whenever its support is needed in the farming community.
FCN also has a responsibility to represent the work of local Volunteers and the problems of FCN’s clients at the national level within government, other organisations and in the media. This requires a professional, flexible and competent Staff team which is, at the same time, tuned in to the practical and pastoral realities of life as a local Volunteer.
The primary role of the Regional Director for Wales is to recruit, encourage, develop and support the Volunteer network as they go about their mission to support the Welsh farming community. He / she also acts as the focus for delivering FCN national strategy across the Principality and for liaising with the Welsh Government and other local stakeholders on behalf of FCN. Good interpersonal skills are essential and experience of working with and managing Volunteers would be a distinct advantage. Dual language capability (Welsh / English) would be a very helpful asset. The role is permanent, part time - 17.5 hrs a week.
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact FCN’s Chief Executive Charles Smith – email: