National Trust
7 months ago
The National Trust protects and cares for places so that people and nature can thrive. We look after hundreds of historic houses and buildings, close to a
million objects as well as vast areas of coastline, countryside, woodland and parks - for everyone’s benefit. This makes us the biggest conservation charity
in Europe.
The Trust has three Advisory Groups: Historic Environment, Natural Environment and Collections & Interpretation, each consist of a chair and 11-15 members who have varied skills, knowledge and experience. These groups have a key role advising senior leaders on strategy and supporting Trust staff to make fully informed decisions. The Trust welcomes the added value that this high-level advice from independent, external, and authoritative sources
provides.
We are looking to appoint **six new members** to the Historic Environment Advisory Group. We seek individuals who can work at a strategic level with Executive Directors and provide insightful and constructive advice in a collegiate and professional manner during meetings and are keen to get out to National Trust sites when required.
You will have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- **Planning and Major Infrastructure** - an expert across a range of major infrastructure sectors, and able to see through complexity to deliver pragmatic outcomes. You bring experience of Major Infrastructure Schemes, including end-to-end consenting processes via the 2008 Act or Hybrid Bills, and see the benefits that taking a strategic approach can bring.
- **Historic Buildings** - a champion for the design of new buildings in sensitive historic contexts, you bring a well-developed understanding of building and social history, and the relationships between buildings and their garden, landscape, or urban contexts. You hold a depth of technical knowledge on the repair, conservation, refurbishment, retrofit and adaptive reuse of a broad range of buildings and structures, including interrelated philosophical concerns.
- **Gardens and Parklands** - an expert in landscape design within the historic environment, you are driven by the strategic role that new and historic gardens and landscapes can play in delivering more public benefit to more people, whilst addressing the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.
- **Heritage at Landscape Scale** - an expert in managing and making the most of cultural heritage in living, working landscapes, you are driven by opportunities for the historic environment to deliver benefits for people and nature.
- **Heritage Led Regeneration** - an expert in the heritage-led regeneration of places, you bring a comprehensive understanding of development economics, processes, and viability.
**The roles require a commitment of up to six days a year and is for an initial term of three years with the potential for a further term of three years.
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