Summary As Assistant Director for Operations, this is a wonderful opportunity to jointly lead the delivery of our new 10-year national strategy: People and nature thriving through our teams and places in the London and South East region. In this varied senior leadership role, you’ll lead teams working across landscapes, gardens, historic houses and inspiring coastline throughout Kent and East Sussex, making connections and working in partnership to inspire, welcome and engage current and future generations. The salary range for this role is £67,236 to £72,000 depending on skills, knowledge and experience. What it's like to work here Reporting to the Regional Director, you'll be a part of the regional leadership team, working together to bring the National Trust’s strategy to life. This role covers Kent and East Sussex within our London and South East Region and your contractual place of work will be the National Trust office at Scotney Castle. Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We’ll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 40–60% of your working week. For more information about what it's like to work here, please read the attached candidate pack. What you'll be doing First and foremost, you're a senior leader. You’ll lead a team of general managers who look after a wide variety of National Trust places, from historic houses and gardens to landscapes and coastline. You’ll support, inspire, coach and mentor your team, helping them to make the best of the places in their care, and to give a great experience and welcome to everyone who visits as well as developing partnerships and community connections. You won't just be working with your team, but with colleagues and specialists from across the Trust. You’ll be building and developing positive relationships and partnerships to help the Trust do more throughout the region. You'll lead operations across your area, working to fulfil the Trust’s strategy, and finding new ways to inspire more people. You’ll be leading large and varied projects, working with specialists from all areas of the Trust. The Trust was founded on the belief that nature, beauty and history are for everyone, so you’ll be championing our priority of making the Trust an inclusive place to work, volunteer and visit finding new ways to make sure everyone has access and feels welcome. Who we're looking for We’d love to hear from you: are an exceptional inclusive leader with a proven record of developing people and teams in a multi-site geographically dispersed environment are a skilled and inspiring communicator, with demonstrable experience in developing strategy and delivering complex projects have high self-awareness and are a collaborative team player who operates effectively within a broader leadership team and matrix-management organisation have outstanding stakeholder management, with the ability to foster valuable partnerships at a senior level with external agencies, funders and partner organisations are an analytical problem solver with a track record of making balanced and reasoned decisions under conflicting pressures are able to be a credible advocate and with an understanding of growing support within the culture, heritage, or environmental sectors The package 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 places for you, a guest and your children (under 18) •Rental deposit loan scheme •Season ticket loan •EV car lease scheme •Perks at work discounts such as 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 Trust places Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.