Are you an inspiring senior leader who thrives in complex, multi-disciplinary environments? If so, this opportunity might be for you. As Assistant Director, you’ll jointly lead our Specialist Delivery Team across the London & South East region, be part of our Regional Leadership Team, and work in collaboration with our national teams to play a pivotal part in delivering our People and nature thriving strategy ( Our strategy to 2035 | National Trust). You’ll lead a team of specialists including Building Surveyors, Nature Specialists and Project Managers. The salary range for this role is £67,236 - £74,724 depending on skills knowledge and experience. What it's like to work here Reporting to the Regional Director, you will focus on the conservation and development of places in the National Trust’s care, as well as exploring partnerships and opportunities to help enable more people to benefit from nature and culture. You will join a supportive, ambitious and collaborative leadership team who are passionate about making a real difference for people and places. As this role covers the London & South East region, your contractual place of work will be the nearest National Trust office to your home. 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. What you'll be doing You’ll provide leadership to a multidisciplinary team of experts with a variety of specialisms who work together to make things happen. You’ll be actively involved in their areas of expertise, leading them in person and remotely, as you take forward our regional strategy and ensure we deliver for audiences on strategic priorities and projects, securing finances, generating revenue and awareness for the National Trust’s work. You’ll lead the way in developing our strategic approach to all we do. You’ll empower your team as well as lead them: inspiring, coaching, mentoring, supporting and motivating them to help each person thrive in their role. You’ll be future thinking, planning the resources, skills and partners we need to deliver our strategy in the long-term. You’ll take a lead role in championing conservation across the region and play an active role in shaping and influencing our approach to conservation nationally. You’ll lead project and programme planning and delivery across the region and sponsor and champion projects, ensuring they consistently meet high standards and realise benefits. You’ll also lead and influence national work. You’ll build relationships with external funders and partners, managing partnerships and successful collaborations. Who we're looking for Criteria for all other applicants: an exceptional senior leader who can show evidence of developing people and teams in a multi-site environment and matrix organisation experienced in planning and delivering for public benefit and in growing support through fundraising strategies a skilled and inspiring communicator, used to developing strategy and running complex projects highly collaborative, and able to work effectively within a broader leadership team outstanding at managing client relationships and cultivating valuable partnerships at a senior level with external agencies, funders and partner organisations an analytical problem solver, with experience of making balanced and reasoned decisions under conflicting pressures a leader for inclusion, who creates an inclusive culture