Estate Manager - West Region; covering Midlands area

Estate Manager - West Region (covering the Midlands area)

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Estate Manager – West Region (covering the Midlands area)

Location:

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Salary: £49,820 p.a. / 36 hours per week / Permanent
Job type:
Permanent

Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage. Heritage lives in places and people, memories and stories, artefacts and traditions. It can connect us all to the past, and to each other. It can make us happier, strengthen every community, and help shape society for the better. Everybody should be able to enjoy the benefits it brings.

That’s why, as a charity, we care for over a million objects and hundreds of historic sites in every part of England, from international icons to local treasures. And it’s why we open them up, share their stories and find new ways for everybody to enjoy, learn, play and create.

We are looking for an Estate Manager to join our team. The role is full time, you will be on a permanent contract and will be working 36 hours per week.

This unique role brings together building and nature conservation, people and project management to provide a holistic estates management service to the Territory. The role will lead on some of the more complex planned maintenance and gives the opportunity to innovate and shape the way we work.

We offer flexible working arrangements where the role allows. This is a full‑time, home‑based role that will mainly cover our sites in the Midlands area but, on occasions, will be required to provide support to some of our SW sites too. Depending on where you are based there may be an opportunity to hot‑desk at one of our local sites.

In this role, you will lead a team of up to 4 people – working across Building Conservation, Landscape Management and M+E services – to deliver a maintenance programme of cyclical works and small projects, with a budget of circa £2m.

Your main objective will be to ensure that our sites remain safe, accessible and operational for our visitors. You will have a strong Health & Safety ethos and lead your team to ensure Statutory Compliance and Safety Critical Reporting are diligently undertaken across your territory. You will also have a unique and exciting opportunity to influence, innovate and deliver carbon reduction, improved nature conservation and champion Sustainable Conservation.

• Salary from £49,820, depending on skills and experience.
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pro‑rata, rising to 28 days after 3 years.
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%.
• Flexible hours.
• The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector.
• Subscriptions to professional bodies.
• Free access to all English Heritage sites for you and up to six friends and family members.
• 25% discount in our shops and cafés.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave.
• Options to buy additional leave.
• An inclusive working atmosphere where everyone is supported from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs.
• Opportunities to attend select live music and history events.

The Estates Management team has a strong leadership ambition. You will be working with the Senior Estate Manager to empower, develop, inspire and enable your team to be the very best they can be, collaborating closely with colleagues across the charity. You will also mentor and support your team in the effective management and administration of a suite of maintenance contracts to achieve agreed levels of conservation, maintenance and site presentation.

In addition to great leadership and a passion for the work undertaken by English Heritage, we also need your experience in project and programme management to deliver work on budget, to time and of the right quality for the sites in our care, helping to secure them for future generations.

We strive to be an inclusive employer and are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England’s heritage.

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