Countryside Manager

Job description

Lead an experienced team of passionate countryside Rangers caring for some of the National Trust’s most important landscapes and habitats, and set the bar high for working – and delivering – with partner organisations to deliver the best for nature, people and to combat climate change. In this role you’ll work closely with your team and our partners to implement conservation projects and managing our estate of some 65,000 acres – including areas of significance to our members and supporters like Cwm Idwal, Hafod y Llan and down to Cregennan.

We’ve a wonderfully diverse estate in the Snowdonia portfolio, and includes gems like Y Parc on the Great Orme and Dinas Oleu – the Trust’s very first property gifted in 1895 down at Barmouth. Our teams are driven to ensure we achieve the best we can at our properties, and you’ll be a key person in this equation, fuelled by the qualities and potential to do more. This role is about being involved at a planning and partnership level, supporting the teams delivering on the ground, and as such it provides a great opportunity to create new experiences for people to enjoy our places, and to drive how our natural environment gets the helping hand it so urgently needs.

Feeding into the Property and Estate Plans, and then delivering on our estate and working with partners, the Countryside Manager is a pivotal link between what we say we want to do – and what we get up to on the ground with our Ranger teams and contractors. From planning, to building relationships with partners including the Snowdonia National Park, Natural Resources Wales, RSPB, Councils, communities and our farming tenants, and to funding applications and working up business cases – the role is challenging and demands a clear, calculating mind, whilst also being naturally great with people.

If you work well in teams, and have extensive experience of managing people and finances – you are part of the way there. But you also have to be passionate and driven about conservation – wanting to make that difference in our natural environment; you also want to make sure that our supporters can help and enjoy these areas, and appreciate what we do to provide the experiences they love. You’ll be a key figure-head in one of the most important countryside properties across the whole of the National Trust, this has to excite you and drive you to achieving amazing results across our estates.

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

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