Food & Farming Assistant

Role Overview

An opening has arisen for a Food & Farming Assistant to support a dynamic, exciting and busy Food & Farming Management & Consultancy team. The team provides core management and consultancy services in the rural, agricultural sectors across Scotland. With a unique and varied workload, the role requires someone proactive and who wishes to make a difference to the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day to day administrative support to the team in managing our Food & Farming Management client portfolios.
• Maintain management database with contract farming agreements and compliance data.
• Creating and maintaining electronic files and records in Dynamics CRM
• Arranging diary invites and facilitating meeting arrangements
• General administration, management meeting preparation and following up meeting actions
• Complete, circulate and track documents, licence agreements, sale of standing crop agreements and contract farming agreements.
• Input data for specific client subsidy applications through SGRPID including basic payment applications, agri environment, sheep and beef support applications and any other one-off grant schemes
• Preparation and submission of land maintenance, entitlement transfer, AECS capital claims and agricultural census forms
• Prepare financial budgets and cash flows, monitoring forecast against actual income and expenditure
• Preparation of annual contract farming management reports

Key Skills

• Agricultural Management experience (desirable but not essential)
• Subsidy knowledge and experience (desirable but not essential)
• Excellent IT skills using MS Office package especially Excel & Word
• Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Working within a team but able to take responsibility and undertake work on own initiative
• Strong attention to detail and able to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks. Financially literate – business and profit focussed

Team Overview

The Food & Farming team in Perth is a fast-paced department made up of 2 Directors, 1 Associate, 1 Consultant, 1 Graduate and a part-time admin support within a multi-disciplined office of 60 staff.
The role would suit someone able to work at a fast accurate pace, and is also able to provide an effective support role.

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