Assistant Director - Operations Bodmin, England
National Trust
Full Time
Bodmin, England
64500 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the senior leadership team for the South West and lead our property teams across Cornwall. The role of Assistant Director Operations helps to shape our regional plan, lead delivery of our regional priorities and strategy, and manage our property portfolios.
What it's like to work here:The National Trust has a clear strategy and values that connect back to our founding purpose. We look after diverse and special places that make an important contribution to the region and the people who live here and visit. You’ll be leading and working alongside ambitious, talented and passionate people in a wide diversity of roles and specialisms in a matrix organisation.
The Assistant Director role acts as an important connector between national, regional and property colleagues, ideas and initiatives. Relationships are key to making things work. We work to restore landscapes and nature, create fabulous visitor experiences at our pay for enter properties and in the wider outdoors, reach out to more diverse audiences and help to tackle our climate crisis. Being able prioritise what’s most important to deliver the strategy and to cut through what can sometimes seem complex to deliver the things that really make a difference is important. Increasingly developing and working in wider partnerships is key to the way we work to deliver our strategy, and this include working beyond our own properties.
The National Trust is a charity. We work hard to generate funds from diverse activities to help us deliver our strategy and look after our places. Our leaders seek to make effective and efficient use of our charitable resources and to model appropriate leadership behaviours. We value diversity and are committed to being a truly inclusive organisation, with teams that reflect the diversity of our society. We strongly encourage and welcome a wide range of applicants across all identities and backgrounds.
What you'll be doing:This opportunity is a strategic and operational leadership role within a matrix and multidisciplinary organisation. We are looking for candidates who have a passion for providing inspirational experiences for our visitors, while delivering world class conservation across our natural and built heritage. You’ll be working in partnerships and with diverse stakeholders.
Working in collaboration with your colleagues on the regional leadership team, you’ll contribute to the development of the regional plan and its delivery, sponsoring and leading on specific strategic areas on behalf of the region. Reporting to our Regional Director as one seven Assistant Directors in the South West, you'll lead a team of General Managers who manage our Cornish properties.
You'll sponsor large-scale projects and manage external partnerships. Influential and inspirational, you’ll support and enable our places and people to succeed; making connections, removing barriers and providing support, direction and insight. You’ll live our organisational values to create an environment of ambition, collaboration and inclusion to enable successful delivery of our strategy and regional plan.
Please read our full role profile which is attached giving details about this exciting opportunity.
Who we're looking forOur cause and strategy excites and inspires you, and you want to help us deliver it.
You’ll be a team leader and team player who is ambitious in supporting the success of the organisation, your teams and colleagues in delivering our strategy. You’ll be passionate about history, landscape, nature and beauty, and the role of the National Trust in protecting and enabling access for broad audiences to these things. You'll be highly credible and able to display a strategic perspective that ensures you and your teams identify opportunities, priortise and deliver the right things in the right ways.
Brilliant people and operational leadership and management skills at a senior level with an inclusive and collaborative leadership approach An active interest in local communities and audiences with the ability to engage with them to understand their perspectives and needs. Understanding of what brilliant visitor experiences and service means, and holding teams to account for delivering it.
Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills, able to develop impactful working partnerships internally and externally. A creative approach to problem solving, ability to explore and develop new initiatives to achieve results. Commercially and financially astute, you’ll be able to balance commercial growth with conservation need. Experience managing and sponsoring large projects and project management principles. The ability to assess and manage risk, and to decide when and how to act to manage risk
Due to the breadth of the portfolio, and our region, regular travel is required for this role.
The packageSome Financial assistance may be available if someone was to relocate for this role.
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 properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Tax free childcare scheme
- Rental deposit loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Perks at work discounts i.e. 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 locations
- Independent financial advice
Requirements :Compliance.Eligibility to Work in the UK
Permanent f/t (37.5 hrs pw)
National Trust
www.nationaltrustjobs.org.uk
Swindon, United Kingdom
Tim Parker
$100 to $500 million (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1895
