Estates Officer North

Salary: £15,288 pa (based on an FTE £30576)
Terms: Permanent, Part Time 18 hours p/w job share
Location: Home Based (ideally the Yorkshire area)

About the role

We are seeking a part-time Estates Officer North to work alongside our current Estates Officer, operating a job share and working closely with the Estates Managers to manage our existing and emerging sites. This post will involve close working with Land Trust colleagues, managing agents, partners and external stakeholders across the North of the country. Focused primarily on residential developments, surrounding Public Open Space and large country parks, the post offers exciting opportunities to shape communities and open space while providing customer service for the service charge payers and helping to integrate them into the existing communities.

The post holder will be line managed by the Estate Manager Yorkshire and Midlands but will also work with the Estate Managers North-East and North-West.

Key responsibilities will be to ensure that the partners responsible for our sites on a day-to-day basis are delivering our charitable objectives as efficiently as possible. The post holder will also work with the Fundraising Team and partners to ensure projects which are grant-funded are delivered; they will seek to identify and deliver commercial revenue-generating opportunities and work with the Communications team to ensure sites are promoted and marketed effectively. An important aspect of their role will be to lead and issue licences and permits using an established system.

DO YOU HAVE:

• Experience in setting up and running landscape management contracts
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to develop and manage relationships with partner organisations and contractors, engaging with local people in resolving issues and site management
• Experience in dealing with the public in a customer-facing role
• Confidence to manage competing priorities
• High level of tact, diplomacy and confidentiality
• IT literate with proven skills in using MS Office packages
• Ability to balance a long-term vision with attention to detail
• Financial awareness, good budget management and control

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• The post will be home-based, with frequent travel to the Land Trust Birchwood Office and other Land Trust sites as required.
• Incudes working outside with some evening, weekend and bank holiday working.
• This position requires the post holder to act flexibly and undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post as discussed with the Estates Manager.
• The post holder will need to have a current valid driving licence.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

• £30,570 pro rata to £15,288
• A salary sacrifice pension scheme, with LT matching employee contributions up to 6%
• Life Insurance (4 x salary)
• Flexitime
• 26.5 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays (pro rata). Rising to 31.5 days with service
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health Care Cashback scheme
• Training and Development support
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Business travel costs will be reimbursed
• Annual performance incentive plan

Full job description can here found here – Click here.

APPLICATIONS

Please email a CV and cover letter of no more than 800 words summarising your experience and explaining why we should consider you for this role to recruitment@thelandtrust.org.uk.

• Closing date for applications is midnight 23 March 2025.
• First Interviews will take place via MS Teams on Tuesday 1^st April 2025
• Second Interviews will take place in person on Tuesday 8^th April 2025

Please note, we are not accepting referrals from agencies currently.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

The Land Trust is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

The Land Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who has contact with its services and colleagues.