National Trust

Ranger

Location: Standen

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time

Reference/IRC: IRC145643

Closing Date: 03-Dec-2023

Salary: £23,556 per annum pro rata

Working in some of the nation’s most stunning places and spaces, come rain or shine, your love of the outdoors will inspire others as you strive to ensure that landscapes are beautifully presented and continue to take our visitors’ breath away.

Interviews will be held on the 16th December.

Standen is an arts and crafts family home set in a beautiful hillside garden. The strong arts and crafts offering includes varied exhibitions, a contemporary arts programme and collaborations with local artists. This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive team in an ever-growing location. Standen is jam-packed with borders providing lots of ideas for visitors’ gardens at home.

With your endless passion for our work, you’ll help with the protection and care of habitats, wildlife, property and machinery, and your passion will inspire other to love this beautiful place as much as you do. We want you to engage with visitors, making time to talk to them, not rushing away to the next task.

You’ll make sure that, at every twist and turn of these fantastic landscapes, we’re delivering outstanding outdoors experiences and excellent conservation work. You’ll share our common goal with customers and build relationships in the local community, proudly representing the National Trust.

You’ll also share and promote the work that we do here, ensuring special places like these are here to be both protected and enjoyed by everyone for ever. This will see you responding to queries and explaining the value of the work being undertaken. After all, your passion and dedication could fire the imagination that makes a visitor become a supporter for the rest of their life.

In this role, you’ll work some weekends, bank holiday and evenings and being on-call.

You’ll need to;

• Demonstrate a passion for nature, heritage and the outdoors through engagement with other members of staff, volunteers and visitors.
• Lead volunteers in delivering practical conservation work to protect and enhance the conservation status of the property
• Be an excellent team player
• Experience in a land, access and conservation management
• Be able to work safely, with risk assessments and compliance with safety procedures
• Competence with machinery and equipment as well as having the relevant certificates required
• A full UK driving licence

   
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Closing Date: 03/12/2023  Location: Standen