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Assistant Rural Surveyor

Employer
The National Trust
Location
Swindon, Wiltshire
Salary
£27,191 pa
Closing date
20 Jan 2019
Reference
IRC73767

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Assistant Rural Surveyor

£27,191 pa

Fixed Term f/t (37.5 hrs pw for 27 mo)

Swindon

Ref: IRC73767

Summary

There’s no other employer like the National Trust. Unrivalled access to a variety of landscapes, a huge breadth of quality work - & experienced mentors to offer support - our Rural Estate Management training offers the first step on an exciting and diverse career path.

Focused on becoming a rural practice Chartered Surveyor, you’ll already have completed a RICS accredited degree or other exempting qualification and be ready to embark on the 2-year Assessment of Professional Competence. We offer a 27 - month training programme providing access to a wide range of experience in Estate Management - and fantastic support networks to prepare our Surveyors for their APC final assessment.

We have 5 training roles based in 3 locations – The Lakes, London & South East and the South West.

What it's like to work here

Working at the Trust offers variety; from dramatic coastline to breath-taking countryside, from working mills to manor houses, from pubs and churches to wildlife habitats, we look after an extraordinary variety of special places and spaces across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We care for around 255,000 hectares of land and over 700 miles of coastline; woodlands, nature reserves and parks and more than 350 houses and gardens.

What you'll be doing

This role will work with our Surveyors to provide colleagues, volunteers and tenants with the expertise needed to deliver and promote conservation of our land, alongside driving forward income generation for conservation. Our Estate Management professionals are at the heart of the delivery of the Trust’s Land, Outdoors and Nature Strategy.

A significant proportion of the role will be residential and agricultural let Estate Management, but with an element of commercial work, across a varied and challenging portfolio. From managing lettings to licensing activities, you’ll help colleagues to provide in-depth, up-to-the-minute advice and guidance and will build productive relationships with our tenants, drawing upon internal and external information to ensure that we’re providing the best service in the most effective way.

We currently have 5 training posts in the following locations.

•Grasmere, Lake District, LA22 9QZ

•Holnicote, West Somerset, TA24 8TJ

•Lanhydrock, Cornwall, PL30 4DE

•Micheldever, Hampshire, SO21 3FL

•Wisley, Surrey, GU23 6QL

Who we're looking for

Like everyone here, you love the outdoors and you’ll enjoy offering your expertise to help our people to get the best out of their land. You’ll also need to have the following:

•A degree in a relevant subject, you’ll be working towards RICS membership

•Practical knowledge of land use and residential property management, environmental issues, conservation and sustainable development

•Some experience of rural work, so you know the issues communities are facing and the challenges of living and working in the countryside

•An up-to-date understanding of what’s happening in the wider world of rural surveying (including relevant legislation)

•Strong negotiation skills - you will be able to work alongside our tenants and build good trusted relationships

The package

Benefits

Read about the benefits we offer to support you here

(https://www.nationaltrustjobs.org.uk/supporting-you/)

Benefits include flexible working whenever possible plus free parking at most locations. You’ll be entitled to discounts in high street stores and cinemas, National Trust shops and NT cafes, and have free entry to NT properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18).

Your health and wellbeing is important to us and is supported through generous annual leave and the option to buy additional days (minimum contract length applies), a cycle to work scheme, subsidised health cash plan and confidential access to a free support service 24 hours a day should you need it.

Your future financial health is helped by an employer matched - up to 10% of basic salary - contributory pension scheme and you can further your career with training and development tailored to you.

All of this and the opportunity to give something back to your community with up to 5 days of paid volunteering per year!

Closing date: 20 January 2019

For more information and to apply, please follow: https://careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_ga=2.51820321.925874428.1546944026-615010092.1546944026#/vacancy-detail/73767

Company

The National Trust has over 255,000 hectares of land, of which about 80% is farmed by tenants. We also have 4,133 rented cottages, 1,978 commercial tenancies, 1,806 agricultural tenancies, 1,014 way leaves and easements and an investment and operational property portfolio valued at £82.87m, of which £66.35m is specified as investment property.

The management of these tenancies and assets, together with the relationship with our tenants, underpins our £40m+ annual rental income and is absolutely essential to the delivery of our conservation work.

Build our future

Think you know what it means to work in building surveying at the National Trust? Think again. As the largest building conservation organisation in Europe, the Trust sets out to protect the nation’s heritage – and building surveying plays a vital role in that. Nick Dutton, brand new Lead Building Surveyor for the London South East region, shares his immense enthusiasm for the profession and reveals why the National Trust offers a unique opportunity to thrive, and further a career in building surveying.

One of the major strategic aims of the National Trust is to look after the places we love – and as building surveyors, individuals like Nick Dutton, are doing just that – demonstrating how vital the profession is to the cause of the entire organisation. The building surveying team deal with all issues concerning buildings, from compliance, day to day and cyclical repairs, all the way up to large building projects. This means that a career in building surveying at the National Trust offers incredible breadth and variety.

London South East is one of six regions in the National Trust, but contains around 25 percent of properties with 192 Grade 1 and Grade 2 star listed buildings, circa 890 let estate cottages, 32 registered parks and gardens, 178 ancient monuments and almost 3,000 hectares of land. It’s an incredibly important region and the largest community of building surveyors within the National Trust.

“The collection of buildings is both unique and diverse requiring special skills, care and attention – and most of all a love for buildings,” says Nick. “There are not many organisations or roles able to offer this level of variety – from the very small, to the very grand and everything in between. There’s no doubt that working in building surveying at the National Trust represents a truly unique opportunity.”

Making a difference

Since he was very young, Nick has been aware of the National Trust and he’s always had a desire to work for the organisation given the range of properties and their conservation ethos. “It’s a unique charity, preserving a great deal of the country’s heritage for the future.. Having worked in a number of building surveying roles both within consultancy and client side, it was the right time for a change. I’d reached the point in my career where I was ready to pursue my dreams, a career that really fulfilled me.”

Collaboration in conservation

Nick’s just two months into his role at the National Trust, but it lives up to everything he hoped it would be. In fact, it’s the ability to work with a group of people who share the same ethos and values as him, with a similar outlook on historic buildings that has really brought the role to life for him.

Nick’s role as Lead Building Surveyor is a new one for the National Trust that came about following an investment into the building surveying function within the organisation. As such, Nick and the other regional leads are working closely together to ensure the building surveying community is acting as one. They work at raising standards across the board, promoting collaborative working within the building surveying community, championing the conservation work undertaken by the Trust and role of building surveying, and acting as mentors and technical leads for their regions.

“I work in close collaboration with the other regional Lead Building Surveyors to ensure we’re working in a consistent fashion. We share ideas, knowledge and techniques across the regions, so that best practice is shared and achieved across the country. It’s a very collegiate vibe, which I’ve not experienced in this way before.”

For Nick, the best part of his role is promoting the skills of the building surveyors and championing the work of the National Trust to an internal and external audience. He’s reaching out to organisations and individuals who share the organisation’s aspirations, as well as those that don’t. Which can be challenging and exhilarating all at once. Whether it’s creating new collaborations, or joining forces with amenity societies and conservation charities there’s always a new challenge ahead. Being able to promote not just the vital work the National Trust does for the nation, but the building surveying profession as a whole, makes his job incredibly inspiring.

If you’d like to make a difference, and give back to conservation, join us and help us deliver our vision.

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