Service Charge Estates Manager

Permanent, Full Time 36 hour’s p/w, Working from home – UK based.

Salary £38k to £45k
• A defined contributions pension plan, with the Trust matching employee contributions up to 6%
• Life Insurance (4 x salary)
• Options for Flexi time and Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays (pro rata). Rising to 30 days with service
• Option to buy additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Care Cash back scheme
• Training and Development support
• Enhanced Family leave and sickness support
• Business travel costs will be reimbursed

The Land Trust is in an exciting period of development, with a growing number of sites coming under management and has recently restructured the Estates Team and has appointed two ‘Heads of Estates’ to cover the North and South of the UK. This will help us to deliver an ambitious, community focused, programme of growth and delivery.

To support the continued growth within the portfolio, the Land Trust are now seeking to appoint a Service Charge Estates Manager.

The Service Charge Estates Manager will work closely with the Head of Estates South to manage our existing and emerging service charge sites across the portfolio and throughout England. This exciting post will involve close working with Land Trust colleagues, contractors, residents, partners, and external stakeholders across the country.

You will have:
• Relevant professional qualification
• A minimum of 5 years experience in public open space management
• Experience of setting up and efficiently and proactively running landscape management contracts
• Excellent levels of customer service including with residents and developer clients
• Skills and experience in promoting commercial opportunities, negotiating and documenting land transactions
• Ability to manage colleagues successfully
• Ability to think laterally and to ensure that the good and professional management of sites also delivers quality environmental, health and other community benefits (charitable outcomes)
• Skills in developing, implementing and monitoring management agreements, management plans and management contracts, and other essential mechanisms in site management
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to develop and manage relationships with partner organisations and contractors, and to engage with local people in resolving issues and engaging them effectively in site management
• IT literate with proven skills in using MS Office packages
• Ability and confidence to work on own initiative, as well as part of a team, and to resolve problems as they arise, remaining calm under pressure
• High level of tact, diplomacy and confidentiality
• Confidence to manage competing priorities under own initiative
• Ability to balance a long-term vision with attention to detail to ensure that the vision can be successfully realised

Other relevant information:
• The post is home based, with frequent travel to other Land Trust offices and sites
• Incudes working outside with some evening, weekend and bank holiday working
• You will be required to travel by car and public transport as necessary to fulfil the role effectively. Note some sites are remote and not accessible by public transport
• You will need to have a current valid driving licence

Full job description can be found – here.

APPLICATIONS

For full information please visit our current vacancy page: www.thelandtrust.org.uk.

Applicants should send a CV and covering letter to: recruitment@thelandtrust.org.uk.

Closing date for applications: 27 November 2024.
Interviews will take place: 29 November 2024- Location TBC.