Rural Surveyor - Ambleside
- Employer
- The National Trust
- Location
- Ambleside, Cumbria
- Salary
- 42,000 pa
- Closing date
- 4 Mar 2025
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Job Details
Summary
We’re looking for a Rural Surveyor to help us manage our diverse let estate portfolio across Cumbria and North Lancashire. Supporting the Estate Manager, you’ll mainly be looking after the South Lakes and the Central and East Lakes estates. Joining our team, you’ll take on interesting rural surveying work that’ll help us to deliver sustainable land and property management, for everyone, for ever.
This role looks after some rural properties, some with very limited access via public transport. You'll be required to travel to different locations across the portfolio, sometimes at short notice, please keep this in mind when applying.
Salary - 42,000 per annum
What it's like to work here
You’ll be part of a very busy and highly professional team consisting of Estate Managers, Rural Surveyors, Building Surveyors and Supervisors, and Lettings and Estate Management Officers.
Working together and with our tenants, the team manages our let estate asset that underpin our national rental income which is essential to the delivery of our conservation work. You’ll have an interesting variety of wok in amazing locations, no two days are the same. You’ll support day to day operations, deliver projects and offer advice within your team and beyond.
One of our biggest priorities is to create a resilient, natural environment for people and nature. We have ambitious plans to create a resilient, natural environment for people and nature and you’ll play a key part in making this happen.
As this role covers Cumbria and North Lancashire, your contractual place of work will be the nearest National Trust consultancy office to your home within the region. Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We’ll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 40–60% of your working week.
What you'll be doing
Working within our structured governance framework, you’ll be a champion of best practice. You’ll provide insightful advice, considerate relationship management and forward thinking in managing and conserving our land and buildings. You’ll be involved in delivering a range of work, including residential and commercial lease negotiations, management of agricultural tenancies and agri-environment schemes, woodland management, access rights and boundary disputes, work with restrictive covenants and occasional acquisitions and disposals.
You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached. You don't need to have all the knowledge, skills and experience listed in the role profile; this is just to provide a full picture of what’s possible in this role.
Who we're looking for
- A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Knowledge of land use, agriculture, asset and land management
- Working knowledge and experience in environmental issues, conservation, sustainable development and approaches to regenerative farming
- Verbal and written communication skills including influencing and negotiation
- Proven ability to analyse, interpret and resolve rural surveying problems using technical knowledge and implementing workable solutions
- Demonstratable consulting skills - listening, building trust and acting to deliver a high-quality service
- A team player who enjoys working in a collaborative environment
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.
Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
Rental deposit loan scheme
Season ticket loan
EV car lease scheme
Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
Flexible working whenever possible
Employee assistance programme
Free parking at most Trust places
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Company
The National Trust is committed to promoting and preserving those places of natural beauty and historic interest for which it has the privilege to be responsible for the benefit of the nation, for everyone for ever.
The Trust is proud of what has been achieved over the last 126 years and is determined to maintain those high standards of conservation, stewardship and curatorial care for which it has been recognised throughout the world.
Its achievements have enabled the general public and the Trust’s members and visitors to enjoy and appreciate the countryside, coastline, gardens, historic buildings and collections, all of which encapsulate so much of the history of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a duty to tell that history in a complete, balanced and accurate way, and without judgement.
The National Trust continues as a guardian of the past, and for the future, to uphold its duty to maintain and enhance what has been entrusted to its care.
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