Countryside Manager

Location: Branscombe, Branscombe, Seaton, EX12 3DB

Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Reference/IRC: IRC150256

Closing Date: 14/04/2024

Salary: £38,961 per annum

Are you a charismatic, committed, and enthusiastic leader with a proven track-record in countryside management? Do you enjoy working as part of an upbeat and dedicated team?

This a rare opportunity to take a leading permanent role in a beautiful part of the country, renowned for its wildlife. You will work as part of the portfolio’s leadership team alongside senior property colleagues, leading and inspiring your team, as well as our many portfolio staff and volunteers together with wider collaborators and partner organisations, in how they can play their part in restoring a beautiful, healthy and natural environment.

What you'll be doing

Leading your countryside team and working closely with the Property Operations Manager, A la Ronde, you will set and deliver plans to protect and enhance the conservation of our properties. You will be responsible for planning and the operational day-to-day delivery for land, outdoors and nature on our properties. You will work alongside key staff from other properties and professional advisors across the region to help shape and deliver our exciting nature conservation strategy to 2025 and beyond. Working with a wide variety of external collaborators in delivering your work and you will enable a broad range of visitors to have outstanding and inspirational experiences through the quality of our welcome and the effectiveness of our conservation work. You will be able to multi-task and juggle lots of competing priorities and delegate effectively.

Who we’re looking for:

• Countryside Management skills alongside knowledge and experience of working on the coast.
• Motivating and inspiring a staff team and a volunteering community
• Balancing conservation, access, presentation, and engagement
• Influencing and negotiating and forming key relationships with collaborators
• Project delivery experience
• Supporting visitor engagement programmes & marketing & communications in the outdoors
• Overseeing compliance & coordination of and liaising with contractors

   
Apply: IRC150256 - Countryside Manager (nationaltrust.org.uk)