Landshare Manager - part-time, 21 hrs per week, initially 6 months FTC

• JHCL_CIC_Application_Form_2025

Please complete the attached application form and return it by email to mch3472@gmail.com or post it to Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare, 3B Holly Close, Farnborough GU14 0ED.

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Jealott's Hill Community Landshare

Our Project:

Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare is a successful and well-established, award-winning community project based in Warfield, Bracknell Forest. Our focus is on peoples’ wellbeing, gardening and the outdoor environment.

We are brilliantly supported by a dedicated and passionate team of volunteers who, led by the Landshare Manager, utilise their gardening and other practical creative skills to plant and maintain our 6-acre site. Sharing their knowledge, they grow vegetables, fruit and flowers, tend our large orchard, help run events and grow plants to sell, alongside creating items for our pop-up shop.
Our primary aim is to provide support and empowerment for a diverse group of volunteers from the community in East Berkshire including those with autism, learning and physical disabilities and those seeking to improve their mental and physical health by connecting with nature. The beneficiaries include individuals in addiction recovery, with dementia, and offenders on community service, as well as ordinary citizens looking for horticultural and outdoor environmental activity. All are volunteers and come to us for many reasons including loneliness and isolation and find that by working and sharing together community engagement is enhanced, gardening and other skills learnt, and lives transformed.

For further information about the work and aims of JHCL CIC see: www.jealottshilllandshare.org.uk

The Role:

• Reporting to the Directors you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the Landshare, including the cultivation, maintenance and use of all areas of the site, a variety of facilities and tools.
• Working with the Directors you will ensure that the Landshare presents a safe, welcoming opportunity for all visitors and volunteers.
• With the Directors you will lead on liaising with the local community, recruiting and supporting volunteers, marketing our services and managing those on site.
• Our part time Horticutural Assistant will report to you.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a confident, experienced manager with an interest in both gardens and people. You will be able to make a meaningful impact by fostering well-being through gardening and other outdoor activities.

Main Duties:

• To coordinate and motivate a diverse group of volunteers, facilitating their growth, knowledge and development as appropriate.
• To manage and support the Horticultural Assistant alongside the volunteer Gardening Co-ordinator.
• To optimise the safe use of the Landshare by varied groups and agencies on an ad-hoc and sessional basis, negotiating contracts and funding for such.
• To work closely with the Directors on both day-to-day and strategic matters.
• To act as an ambassador for the Landshare with external organisations and at events.
• To liaise with the Treasurer and designated administrative volunteers on the financial and administrative tasks associated with the day to day running of the Landshare, including record keeping and local small scale fund-raising.
• To be fully involved in communication and to contribute to making a positive and up to date social media profile for the Landshare.
• To report monthly to the Director’s meeting.
• To be the Landshare’s primary contact with the Landowner Syngenta.
• To take overall responsibility for running Events.
• To provide practical guidance and hands on support, when required, to get tasks done.
• To cover for the Horticultural Assistant in their absence.

Preferred Person Specification:

It is hoped that candidates will be able to demonstrate some skill and ability in the majority of these areas, which may have been gained in a voluntary or work capacity.

• Experience of community project management and development also safe and effective event management.
• Experience of managing volunteers and the ability to motivate and encourage and support those with a range of backgrounds and abilities, delegating responsibilities as appropriate.
• Experience of working with people with vulnerabilities and disabilities.
• Patience, understanding, empathy and the ability to work with a wide range of people in a collaborative way treating everyone with respect and maintaining confidentiality.
• Strong communication, organisational, and collaborative skills.
• Proficiency in administrative tasks, a variety of IT software tools, social media and basic book-keeping.
• Understanding of health and safety and legislative requirements.
• Coaching and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of the health and social care system and experience of collaboration with health and social care professionals.
• Some experience and knowledge of horticulture and cultivation, with at least basic DIY skills.
• Common sense, pragmatism and a willingness to use your initiative and work independently within the aims of the Landshare.
• Creativity and the ability to ‘think outside the box’.
• Experience of working flexibly - multi-tasking and good time management.
• Comfortable with working out of doors in all weathers.
• Live local to the Landshare.
• First Aid trained (or willing to undergo training).
• Be willing to undertake an enhanced disclosure check

Terms and Conditions:

• Part-time, 21 hours per week, initially for a six-month term.
• Flexible hours to meet the project’s requirements: on site Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and one Saturday morning per month.
• Salary - £20 per hour.
• Free on-site parking
• PPE provided.

The position is offered on a salaried fixed term contract or on a self-employed basis.

Your application:

If you have any questions regarding the role please contact – Director - Nicole Jeffries, 07955 642 159.

Please complete the attached application form and return it by email to mch3472@gmail.com or post it to Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare, 3B Holly Close, Farnborough GU14 0ED.

Closing date for applications: 8am Monday 20th October 2025.

Interviews: Friday 24th October 2025