Rural Asset Management Officer - Ambleside

National Trust; Ambleside; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Free entry to NT places

Season ticket loan

EV car lease

Perks at work discounts

Holiday allowance

Flexible working

Employee assistance programme

Free parking

Job summary

National Trust in Cumbria seeks a Rural Asset Management Officer to support the let estate team with budget planning, records management, and project coordination. You will act as a go-to person for administrative systems, finance, and property management, enabling efficiencies and governance adherence across multiple offices.

You will contribute to the Future Farming Programme and oversee coordination of void residential refurbishments, ensuring paperwork and governance are in place while

Qualifications

• Must be capable of building effective working relationships across internal teams, tenants and external stakeholders.
• Able to maintain data, systems and processes for let estate management.
• Aware of governance processes and how to apply them.

Responsibilities

• Provide budget support and planning for the let estate team.
• Manage records and archives; support communications and project coordination.
• Support implementation of new or different ways of working and information management.
• Coordinate internal teams and governance for Future Farming Programme and related projects.

Skills

Relationship building

Data governance

Management information

IT literacy

Team collaboration

Small-scale project delivery

Contractor coordination

Tools

Finance systems

Property management systems

Office IT packages

Job description

We're looking for you to play a key role in one of our let estate teams. You'll provide project coordination to our buildings projects as well as reliable technical support services to the team, you'll ensure you're the go-to person for helping the team navigate our administrative systems and processes and help us continuously improve our ways of working. Our let estate teams are made up of estate management and buildings professionals who manage our diverse portfolio throughout Northern Ireland, Wales and England. They're involved in the full tenancy lifecycle for a range of land and property including residential, commercial and agriculture, ensuring ongoing maintenance and investment in them. This opportunity is based at the Grasmere Regional Hub near Ambleside but with opportunity to work from many other offices throughout Cumbria. We are happy to explore and agree a hybrid working arrangement, which strikes the right balance for you and the Trust. Please note, internally this role is known as Rural Asset Management Officer This is a fixed term contract due to end when the postholder returns to the role. At this point we cannot confirm exactly how long this contract will last, but it is unlikely to be more than 12 months #LI-DNI

What it's like to work here

You'll be working within a team of building and estate management professionals, playing a pivotal role in enabling them to deliver high quality estate management across our Cumbria and Lancashire portfolios. The management of our tenancies, assets and relationships with our tenants is essential to the delivery of our conservation work, this role plays a key part in this.

What you'll be doing

You'll provide key support for our let estate team, including budget support and planning, records and archives management, communications and project coordination. You'll be working with rural, buildings and lettings professionals to deliver our core business objectives and project work across our let land and property. You'll be a go to person in the team to help manage administrative systems and processes, including finance systems, property management systems, processes relating to legal processes such as covenants management, as well as supporting the implementation of new or different ways of working. You'll ensure we are maximising efficiencies from our existing systems, processes and information management. You will be the principle coordinating role for our Future Farming Programme, an ambitious multi million pound investment into our agricultural estate, delivering various projects throughout the region including farmhouse refurbishments, conservation of vernacular buildings and the erection of new farm buildings. You'll also be involved in supporting the delivery of our void residential refurbishment projects including helping to ensure all the relevant paperwork is in place, governance best practice is followed, as well as coordinating internal teams. There will also be continuous improvement projects that you'll deliver alongside the other Rural Asset Management Officers.

• The ability to build effective working relationships with internal teams across departments, tenants, partners and external stakeholders The ability to maintain data, systems and processes to support the effective management of the let estate
• An understanding and awareness of the importance of governance processes
• The ability to gather, analyse, interpret and present Management Information to support decision making
• The ability to use IT packages, learn and explore new technology and systems, and share knowledge with others
• The ability to work as part of a team, share ideas and contribute to effective ways of working
• Experience of small scale project delivery and working with contractors

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 (for roles that meet the salary criteria)
• 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