Summary

We’re looking for Rural Asset Management Officers who can work as a key player in our let estate teams supporting the work on our let estate. You’ll provide a reliable technical support service to a team, ensuring you are the go-to person for helping our teams to navigate our systems and processes.

Our 16 let estate teams are made up of estate management and buildings professionals who manage our diverse let estate portfolio throughout Northern Ireland, Wales and England. They are involved in the full tenancy lifecycle for a range of land and property including residential, commercial and agricultural as well as ensuring ongoing maintenance and investment in them.

What it's like to work here

You’ll be based at one of the following locations, supporting a range of properties.

• Hughenden Manor, Bucks
• Polesden Lacey, Surrey
• Scotney Castle, Kent
• Micheldever Hub Office, Hampshire
• Bristol Hub
• Tisbury Hub, Wiltshire
• Killerton, Devon
• Lanhydrock, Cornwall

We’re open to exploring flexible working arrangements, but would expect you to be able to work from your office location approximately two days per week and for the remainder of the week you may need to travel to other sites your team looks after.

We are inviting applications for no more than two locations per applicant. Please outline very clearly in your cover letter which property you would like to be considered for. If you do not specify a location, we may not be able to shortlist your application.

What you'll be doing

You’ll provide key technical support for one of our 16 let estate teams. You’ll work with estates and building professionals who look after our vast and varied property portfolio to deliver our core and project work. You’ll support the implementation of new and existing systems, processes and information management and produce communications material to share successes and champion the work from within your team for a wide range of audiences.

You’ll be involved in delivering £30million p.a. worth of projects. This includes delivering a project to ensure all our let estate paper and digital records and managed in the most efficient way and working with your team to support other projects from concept through to handover

Who we're looking for

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

• Strong customer service skills – you’ll be liaising with our internal teams across departments, tenants, partners and external stakeholders
• The ability to maintain data, systems and processes to support the effective management of the let estate
• An understanding and awareness of the importance of governance processes
• The ability to gather, analyse, interpret and present Management Information to support decision making
• Confidence in using IT packages, and are happy to learn and explore new technology and systems and share knowledge with others
• The ability to work as part of a team to achieve the best results, demonstrating best practice and sharing ideas and thinking
• experience of small scale project delivery and working with contractors

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

Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.