Countryside Portfolio Leader

Countryside Portfolio Leader

About the Role

This is a rare opportunity to lead our countryside team and help deliver our vision for the nature and climate crisis. As a Countryside Portfolio Leader, 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.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the General Manager, you will play a strategic role in the future of the portfolio. Leading your countryside team and working closely with the Property Operations Manager, 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. You will work 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.

What We're Looking For

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

•a strong understanding of nature conservation, common land, and public land management/land use change.
•project and budget management skills.
•ability to lead a diverse team.
•ability to demonstrate where you've delivered change and results.
•effective negotiating, influencing and communication skills.
•strong partnership working and the ability to demonstrate resilience.
•outstanding service, engagement, and people skills.
•a desire to make a difference, show initiative, and work towards a sustainable future.

The Benefits

The National Trust has the motto 'For everyone, for ever' at its heart. We're working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It's important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we're for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too. As a Countryside Portfolio Leader, you will be part of this inclusive culture and will have access to a range of benefits, including a substantial pension scheme, free entry to National Trust places, and a rental deposit loan scheme.

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