Rural Surveyor

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent wildlife conservation charity in the UK seeks a Rural Surveyor to support land management and conservation projects. The role involves overseeing land acquisitions, ensuring legal compliance, and assisting with project management. The ideal candidate will be a chartered surveyor with extensive experience in estate management and negotiation skills. This position offers a competitive salary of £51,750 – £53,091 per annum, with the option for hybrid working.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity policies

Salary exchange pension

Learning & Development Programme

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Chartered member of RICS Rural or equivalent.
• Experience in estate management, land acquisition, and valuation.
• Project management expertise in rural settings.

Responsibilities

• Oversee land acquisitions and disposals, ensuring legal compliance.
• Negotiate access with utility companies and manage nature reserves.
• Assist with investment in BBOWT’s built estate.

Skills

Chartered member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS Rural)

Extensive post-qualification knowledge of estate management

Communication and negotiation skills

Current UK valid car driving licence

Education

Chartered Surveyor qualification

Job description

Rural Surveyor

Salary: £51,750 - £53,091 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week. Significant flexibility in working pattern

Based: BBOWT Offices. Hybrid working is available

The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust has a vision for “more nature everywhere, for everyone”. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. This includes you being comfortable bringing your whole self to work, and us co‑working with the diverse communities we serve to ensure we are meeting everyone’s needs.

The Rural Surveyor will help nature recover by supporting our nature reserve, facilities and wider countryside teams deliver land management and projects whilst ensuring that the charities’ future is secure in regard to its legal and contractual obligations.

You will be working closely with the Land Management and Ecology Director, reserves managers and other managers across the organisation with site visits to our 85 nature reserves, offices and visitor centres as required.

What you’ll be doing

• Overseeing acquisitions and disposals of land and property | Leading on compliance, the negotiation of leases, landlord consents and other obligations
• Leading on negotiating access with third parties such as utility companies.
• Providing support to the Land Management and Facilities teams in regard to the management of nature reserves, offices, visitors centres and let property
• Assisting with investment and development in BBOWT’s built estate
• Ensuring all legal documents, rents, leases and wayleave are embedded in a well organised estate terrier system

What we’re looking for

• Chartered member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS Rural) or another equivalent professional organisation (FAAV or similar).
• Extensive post‑qualification knowledge and experience of estate management, land and property acquisition, valuation and disposal work in the rural environment.
• In‑depth knowledge and experience of project management with the ability to lead multifunctional project teams especially in regard to buildings, property and construction.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills both verbally and in writing
• Current UK valid car driving licence and ability to travel widely across the three counties

Benefits and rewards

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, wellbeing days, urgent personal business leave and generous occupational sick pay
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and family‑friendly policies
• Flexible working to achieve work‑life balance
• Salary exchange pension with generous employer contribution
• Learning & Development Programme for all
• Wellbeing initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders, YuLife benefit package
• Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme
• Membership to BBOWT’s, and The Wildlife Trusts’, Staff Network Groups for social interaction, peer support, mentoring and personal development

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The closing time and date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 1st February 2026.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits these bring. We want every candidate to have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this, we know that some candidates will benefit from reasonable adjustments. Contact us on [e-mail] if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the recruitment process, including completing your application.

When applying for the role you can expect to answer a few questions online relating to the skills required and what you would be doing in the role. Your responses will be anonymised, randomised, and scored by a panel of reviewers.

We don't use an application form, or CVs - your answers to our situational based questions will be scored against a review guide and scores from these will decide which candidates go through to the interview stage. See here to find out why we do this.

Whilst we appreciate ChatGPT and other AI platforms can answer these questions, we know what they have to say (and generally the answer they generate isn't great). We want to hear your perspective written in your own words. If it is clear that any of your answers are not your own work, we reserve the right to reject your application on that basis.

You’ll also be asked for information about your background, anything you feel comfortable sharing will be anonymised and will not be shared as part of the selection process, it will only be used to help us understand how we are performing against our equal opportunities metrics. All candidates will receive feedback on their application.

We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people from visible ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities (including those who are neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ community, those from lower socio‑economic backgrounds, and younger people. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, The Lodge, 1 Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxford Oxon OX4 4XT

Registered Charity No. 204330 www.bbowt.org.uk