Rural Surveyor

Salary: £49,450 - £52,050

Contract: Permanent

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

Based: The Lodge, Littlemore, Oxford. 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
• Providing support to the Land Management and Facilities teams in regard to the management of nature reserves, offices, visitors centres and let property
• Project managing 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.
• 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

For all your hard work you can expect a great rewards package in return. In addition to being part of a friendly, skilled and knowledgeable team, passionate about making a difference, when you work for us, you’ll also receive

• 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 - access to our EAP, providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access prescription service, a variety of discounts
• 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

How to apply

For full details, please read the job description and T&Cs below. To apply, please follow the application link.

The closing time and date for applications is 11.59pm on Monday, 9^th of December 2024. Interviews will take place on Wednesday, 22^nd of January 2025.

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 recruitment@bbowt.org.uk 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