Rural Surveyor
- Employer
- The National Trust
- Location
- Winchester
- Salary
- £40,000 per annum
- Closing date
- 21 Aug 2022
- Reference
- IRC125250
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- Sector
- Land, Property, Construction
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Specialism
- Asset & Facilities Management, Environment, Estates Management
Job Details
Rural Surveyor
Salary:£40,000 per annum
Contract type: Fixed Term f/t (37.5 hrs pw for 24 mo)
Closing date: 21st August 2022
Address: Micheldever Hub, Warren Farm Barns, Winchester, SO21 3FL
Summary We’re seeking a Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor to work in our Estate Management Team covering the beautiful areas of Hampshire, Isle of Wight & South Downs. This is a fixed term role with a flexible scope on hours and place of work. We’d welcome interest from applicants seeking either full time or part time employment. We’re a dedicated property management team of estate managers, building surveyors, estate management officers and residential lettings officers.
As part of the Estate Management team, you'll bring a range of skills to ensure we safeguard and effectively manage our built assets and interests in land and build on the relationships we have with our tenants. You'll provide insightful advice, and considerate stakeholder management, and have forward thinking approaches to managing and conserving our land and buildings.
Check out our Surveyor Community on LinkedIn to find out more about our exciting projects.
If you’d like an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact Oliver Cooper at oliver.cooper@nationaltrust.org.uk
Interview date: 31st August 2022
Location: Micheldever Hub, Near Winchester
Salary: Circa £40,000
What it's like to work here Reporting to the Senior Estate Manager you’ll be working across a variety of beautiful estates including Hinton Ampner, Mottisfont Abbey, The Vyne, Petworth House as well as the countryside properties on the Isle of Wight, South Downs, and New Forest. This work will shape the future of the UK’s biggest private landowner.
We’re supportive of hybrid working; with time split between home, property offices and some time each week at our Micheldever Hub office, near Winchester. This is a 24 month, fixed-term role with flexibility of hours and place of work. Hours are negotiable.
What you'll be doing You'll be involved in supporting residential and commercial lettings; management of agricultural tenancies and Agri-environment schemes; woodland management; access rights and boundary disputes; work with restrictive covenants; valuations; and occasional acquisitions and disposals. Whilst working with our structured governance framework, we need you to be an effective and convincing champion of best practice.
Who we're looking for
- A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Experience of land use, agriculture, asset management, land management, environmental issues, conservation and sustainable development
- Influencing, consulting and negotiation skills
- Able to analyse, interpret and resolve rural surveying problems
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.
Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you – and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.
Benefits for working at the National Trust include:
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.
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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