Summary

Here's your chance to use your skills and experience as a Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor to help shape and deliver the future of one of our pioneering and precious estate in the Yorkshire Dales, as well as being part of the team supporting Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, a World Heritage Site.

As Estate Manager to these properties, you'll work closely with the General Managers and their team, as well as a wide range of conservation and heritage professionals.

What it's like to work here

Land use and the rural landscape is a rising central focus within the National Trust and you'll be instrumental in implementing our ambitions, leading negotiations with our tenants and other stakeholders to deliver the modern, progressive land management approach we need to achieve our strategic aims. Our Yorkshire Dales estate includes areas of national and international nature conservation importance and although there has been pioneering work already done, there is a huge amount on untapped potential.   

We need someone with the ability to apply conservation expertise, agricultural knowledge, technical skills and to work collaboratively with tenants and colleagues to deliver innovative, client focussed and entrepreneurial estate management and realise the potential of this outstanding Estate.

What you'll be doing

The variety this role brings is what makes it so challenging and exciting. In space of a few days you could be part of a team of specialists mapping out ways we’ll make our landscapes more resilient to change and then out on site discussing with a tenant farmer how to implement land management change in a way which leads to a sustainable way forward for both Trust and tenant. Or you could be working with consultants on a major maintenance or renovation project for an historic estate building, or reviewing and prioritising the work programme of the Let Estate Buildings Surveyor who will report to you. Whatever you do, you’ll be doing it alongside amazing people who share your passion for the stunning places looked after by the UK’s biggest private landowner.

You’ll work in collaboration with a large and varied group of internal and external stakeholders, so we are looking for someone who enjoys and is able to use both their technical and personal skills in order to build strong and lasting relationships. 

Who we're looking for

We’d love to hear from you, if you have the following skills and experience:             

• In-depth knowledge of land use, agriculture, asset management, land management, environmental issues, conservation and sustainable development and understand how that translates to National Trust Strategy
• A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors,
• The ability to lead a team focused on delivering excellent results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to deliver results and KPIs both personally and through a team
• Strong project management skills
• Strong demonstrable consulting skills of listening, building trust and acting to deliver a high quality service

The package

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.

Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you – and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.

Benefits for working at the National Trust include:

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Free parking at most locations

• Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary