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Do you enjoy spending time in beautiful green and cultural places and seeing the positive impact they can have on people’s lives? Are you a natural people person who loves to listen, to meet and talk, bringing people together to help solve problems and realise opportunities? Do you love to work with communities, helping to give people a voice and a genuine seat at the table? If so, then helping the largest conservation charity in Europe, The National Trust, to find new ways of connecting with people living in towns and cities through the leadership of 4 of our London properties, could be the perfect next step in your career.

Based at Morden Hall Park, a park at the heart of the community, the General Manager will also take the lead for 575 Wandsworth Road, an extraordinary home and work of art, Sutton House a place constantly reflecting and adapting to the changing world around it and Rainham Hall, a proud and prominent resource at the heart of its community.

Salary Range: £43,200 - £50,000 dependent on experience. Please note that the salary includes an additional London weighting of £2,690 per annum

What it's like to work here

We’re a large charity, blessed to have the support of over 11,000 staff and nearly 40,000 volunteers, all of whom help to look after some of the most beautiful places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This means there is always someone on hand to help achieve our ambitious strategy to address unequal access to nature, beauty and history.

Supported by national and regional specialists the General Manager is a leadership role, with the autonomy and independence to adapt our national strategy into local plans that respond to the local environment and context, all helping to ensure that we care for places of historic interest and natural beauty for ever.

With our origins over 125 years ago, we know we have a traditional identity but we’re working hard to diversify as we develop and grow our vital inclusion work. The properties you’ll be looking after are amongst the most dynamic and play a vital and leading role in helping us to achieve the ambition of being for everyone. Sitting within our broader group of London and urban properties you will help us to reach an ever more diverse audience.

What you'll be doing

This job is first and foremost about people with a large proportion of your time spent supporting your teams in their work and in building and maintaining the multiple internal and external stakeholder relationships that support and benefit from the properties.

In addition, you will oversee the development and delivery of the property business plan, setting an exciting and ambitious vision for the future and translating that into project delivery, sustainable finances and fundraising plans, all of which helps to ensure that your properties are well cared for and maintained to the highest standards of conservation possible.

Who we're looking for

This role will suit you if you love working with people and recognise the importance of listening, being inquisitive and valuing the diversity of thought that comes from working in partnership with communities.

The successful candidate will be an experienced leader, comfortable managing visitor operations and the associated risks. With experience of developing external relationships, managing and/or overseeing projects and with a good grasp of cost management and financial planning you are a natural multi-tasker.

You will need to be resilient and have a strong sense of purpose, it isn’t all tea and cake. Happy to work independently and as part of a team as the situation suits, someone who is flexible and willing to learn will thrive.

Our charitable purpose is to promote and preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty for the benefit of the nation. Whilst we don’t necessarily need someone who is a deep expert it is important to have an empathy and interest in helping to share our beautiful and interesting places with the nation.

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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