Manage infrastructure for a wildlife management area
Overview
This standard outlines the competencies required by individuals who are responsible for managing the infrastructure essential to the smooth running of a wildlife management area. It has been developed so that it can be applied to a variety of situations. This standard is aimed at those who work in game and wildlife conservation and who are responsible for managing the equipment, tools and vehicles, structures and surfaces for a wildlife management area.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
plan maintenance programmes for the wildlife management area
infrastructure, in accordance with your organisation's objectives
- manage the effective use of resources in maintaining the wildlife
management area infrastructure
- organise specialist services to support maintenance programmes
according to organisational requirements
- communicate the requirements of the maintenance programmes
to those involved in its implementation
- manage infrastructure maintenance programmes to ensure they
are effectively completed, using planned systems of work
- confirm that working methods maintain health and safety and are
consistent with relevant legislation, codes of practice and
organisational requirements
- communicate work requirements to people and teams involved in
their implementation in a way that promotes understanding
- monitor the quality of work to confirm that required standards
have been achieved
- manage any deviations from planned work activities in ways that
are prompt and consistent with organisational and relevant legal
requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the value of effective infrastructure maintenance programmes
- how to introduce efficiencies and improvements in sustainability,
where appropriate
- the resource requirements associated with infrastructure
maintenance programmes for a wildlife management area, for
example people, equipment, materials, finance
- the importance of managing and monitoring resource usage and
dealing with resource shortages
- the maintenance requirements for vehicles and equipment,
firearms, game handling facilities, site structures, surfaces and
access points relevant to the wildlife management area
- how climate, geographical factors (soils, topography), land
designations impact on activities
- how to evaluate the quality of work carried out against the
infrastructure maintenance programme
- the importance of managing variations in expected work
outcomes
- why deviations from planned work activities can impact on the
infrastructure maintenance programme
- when specialist services should be used to support infrastructure
maintenance programmes
- the effective methods of communicating with internal and external
stakeholders
- the role of relevant legislation, national policies, codes of practice,
sector guidance and organisational requirements that support the
management of infrastructure for a wildlife management area
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Designations could include:
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National Park
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
Special Areas of Conservation (SACs)
Special Protection Areas (SPAs),
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
World Heritage Site (WHS)
Archaeological site
National Trust
Nitrogen Vulnerable Zone (NVZ)
Drinking Water Safeguard Zones
Scheduled Monuments (SMs)
Listed Buildings (LBs)
Registered Parks and Gardens (RPGs)
Registered Battlefields (RBs)
Sites identified on the Historic Environment Record (HER).
Sector guidance could include:
The Code of Good Shooting Practice
Deer Initiative Best Practice Guides
Scottish Natural Heritage Best Practice Guides
Wildlife management area
Any area of land used for the provision of game-shooting activities