Are you someone who loves bringing people together to help solve problems and realise opportunities? Do you value working with local and wider communities through developing mutually beneficial long-term relationships?
We’re looking for a Community and Volunteering Manager to join our team at Wallington.
Wallington holds national significance, with enormous potential to make land use changes at a landscape scale, directly responding to the crisis in nature and climate change. You'll be a critical component to the success of this, with a unique opportunity to influence and co create the plan, bringing people and nature, right at the heart of our work. We foresee significant opportunities to build our volunteer community developing a diverse and flexible offer with our stakeholders whilst working collaboratively to strengthen our partnerships, delivering our shared ambitions together. collaboratively to identify and resource.
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week, your working pattern would cover some regular weekend working and bank holidays
Salary: £32,995pa
Contract: 2 year fixed term
Interviews: 19th July - - we would prefer to conduct face to face interviews, however we can accommodate virtual interviews for those who would like to apply but live outside of the area and would relocate for this role.
If you have any questions about this role please contact: Sally.Richards@nationaltrust.org.uk
Welcoming over 250,000 visitors a year, Wallington is a special place to many families and a key player in the North East attractions. Located 35 minutes north of Newcastle, this stunning rural estate covers 20 square miles and remains the largest agricultural estate ever left to the National Trust. Wallington is home to 15 tenant farming families with a further 75 residential tenants. Cambo is the estate village with an active village hall and local school. Further close communities include Scots Gap, Kirkwhelpington and Middleton whilst the towns of Morpeth and Rothbury are within a 20 minute drive.
Reporting directly to the General Manager, you'll work as part of the Wallington Leadership team, working collaboratively in developing and delivering Wallington’s strategic plan to ensure people are at the heart of our work. You'll lead on delivering our ambition to be an inclusive and accessible place to visit, volunteer and work.
The starting point for the role will be to focus on cultivating meaningful relationships with our local community. It is vital that we listen to our partners and stakeholders to better understand the part we can play in supporting their needs while also fulfilling our ambition and developing opportunities as part of the long-term development of Wallington.
You'll lead the offer for the existing 120 active volunteers within the visitor hub and take the leadership team on a journey embedding a more diverse, inclusive volunteer offer, supporting all aspects of our work, across the 7-day week. As we embark on a landscape scale project, “Wilder Wallington”, transforming land for people and nature to thrive you will lead on our engagement and involvement of stakeholders to restore nature and increase access.
You'll bring a proven track record of passion, experience and learning from other projects you have facilitated and led. We would especially love to hear from people with the following skills/experience:
* Understanding of good practice in volunteering, volunteer management, community engagement, participation, and partnership working.
* Understanding of innovation in volunteering and different approaches to participation.
* Practical and successful experience in developing and implementing innovative approaches to volunteering.
* Strong knowledge of relevant legislative requirements relating to the role – including the legal distinctiveness of volunteering.
* Able to build effective and collaborative relationships with property leadership peers and their teams, and partners.
* Able to maintain existing, and develop new relationships with community groups and external stakeholders.