IRC170892 - Collections & House Manager, National Trust

This is a permanent, part-time role at 22.5 hours per week.

What it's like to work here

The teams in the Cotswolds are a collaborative team with a large group of areas across the area, most of which are outdoors. The property group includes multiple offices to work on and your colleagues will be based at different places

Lodge Park is a unique 17th century deer coursing grandstand, occasionally open to the public and housing a fine collection of historic family furniture and paintings.

The Sherborne collection store holds further family belongings as well as a significant assemblage of archaeology.

Across the wider portfolio buildings and outdoor sites are home to small collections of furniture, building fabric, archaeology and literature which need your care.

What you'll be doing

You'll work with the leadership team to ensure operational efficiency, championing conservation and cultural heritage, working flexibly with other departments to achieve shared goals.

You'll lead on, and be responsible for, the delivery of the care for the collections across our properties, support the opening of Lodge Park, the care and management of our collections store, manage and support research requests, provide a consistently excellent experience for visitors and achieve outstanding standards in conservation, presentation and compliance.

Leading by example, you'll instill a culture of excellent and inclusive service, engaging all kinds of people with conservation, interpretation and the values of the Trust.

You will be based on site in one of our many beautiful offices, favouring Sherborne & Lodge Park as your base, with occasional weekend working.

You'll have overall responsibility for house and collections care volunteers, developing their skills and providing an indoor volunteering experience for them that's as flexible and inclusive as possible.