Job Overview

Apply on employer's website We have a unique opportunity for someone who is passionate about great conservation. As the House Steward, you'll play an important part of the house team. Variety is the order of the working day; you'll be involved in everything from general housekeeping and preparing the house for special events, to providing tours to our visitors. This is initially a fixed term position until 30th November 2018. What it's like to work here Lamb House is the Georgian home of writers Henry James and E.F. Benson, who depicted the property in the Mapp and Lucia stories. A strong team spirit and collaborative working environment is key to the success of Lamb House and the team are looking for flexible, creative people to join them. What you'll be doing You'll be responsible for the daily opening of the house, ensuring appropriate resources are in place to be able to provide a consistently excellent service for our visitors. Working with a team of Conservation Assistants, you'll supervise the team responsible for implementing conservation routines, preventive conservation and annual deep cleaning programme within the house to ensure excellent standards of care, delivering strategies to improve conservation. You'll collect and record information during housekeeping cleaning routines to inform our understanding of the house and the collection, and use preventive conservation techniques to improve how we conserve, interpret and present the property. You'll enjoy telling visitors about our fascinating history, sharing tales from the past as well as your personal experience of working here. Who we're looking for We'd love to hear from you if you: Are inspired by all things Heritage and Conservation Have good working knowledge of collections care and preventive conservation with an awareness of Museum Accreditation standards Have an impressive eye for even the smallest of details and are comfortable working from height to help keep the house well-presented at all times Have knowledge of Health & Safety and emergency procedures. And you'll need to demonstrate the following experience on your CV/application; Being able to support volunteers to perform at their best Have excellent people skills and are a good team player, enabling strong relationships to be built and maintained Have some knowledge and experience of managing budgets and finance The package Looking after you Health cash plan - from as little as £2.81 per month for you and your dependents Pension contribution match up to 10% EAP and proactive Health and Wellbeing Discounted gym membership Looking after your career Grow your career through professional training courses across the Trust Develop your skills with an internal secondment Pay review linked to values and behaviours, commitment to progression Income protection due to illness Unique to Us Work in some of the most beautiful, iconic and unique locations in the UK Free entry to NT properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18) 20% off in our retail and catering outlets Discount up to 35% off a National Trust holiday cottage booking

Key Requirements

Active Team Player People Skills Health & Safety Eye for detail Passion for heritage and conservation