Estates Officer

Salary: £33,600 per year

Estates Officer North

Permanent, Full Time 36 hour’s p/w

Home Based (ideally, Yorkshire area) Salary £33,600per annum.

25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays. Increasing with service.

A defined contributions pension plan with the Trust matching up to 6%.

Business travel costs reimbursed. Flexi time, Employee Assistance Programme, Life Assurance and Ongoing personal and professional development.

The Land Trust is seeking an Estates Officer for the North area covering Yorkshire to the Midlands to manage our existing and emerging sites. This involves close working with Land Trust colleagues, managing partners and external stakeholders. Focused primarily on residential developments, surrounding Public Open Space and large country parks, offering 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. Reporting to the Estate Manager Yorkshire but also work with Estate Managers in the North-East, North West and Midlands. It is envisaged that they will spend a day a week working on projects in each geographical with two days in the Midlands area although this will be subject to the demands of the sites.

Key responsibilities, to ensure that the partners responsible for our sites are delivering our charitable objectives. Work with the Fundraising Team and partners to ensure projects which are grant funded are delivered, 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 the role will be to lead and issue licences and permits using an established system.

Essential 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 from a large number of sites under own initiative. High level of tact, diplomacy and confidentiality. IT literate with proven skills in MS Office packages. Ability to balance a long-term vision with attention to detail to ensure that the vision can be successfully realised. Financial literacy, good budget management and control.

Other relevant information: The post will be home based therefore must have a stable internet connection. Frequent travel to Land Trust sites and Birchwood Office. 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. Due to the nature of the post a DBS search will be conducted upon appointment. The post holder must have a current valid UK driving licence.

The Land Trust are committed to the principle of equal opportunity in recruitment and employment and ensure that no eligible applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

For further information please visit the land trust website

Applicants should send a CV and covering letter