Position: Seven Sisters Country Park Manager
Location: Seven Sisters Country Park
Closing Date: 19 April 2026
Interview Date: 5 May 2026
Salary: £43,806 – £48,266
Hours: 37 hours per week
Type of post: Permanent
Sitting on the Eastern edge of the National Park, the South Downs National Park Authority owns the Seven Sisters Country Park. We are dedicated to ensuring nature conservation for generations to come.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Country Park Manager to lead on the operational delivery of the park, leading on landscape management, nature recovery and the day-to-day operations of this busy location, which includes our visitor facilities. Our aspirations are high, and the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of our key objectives whilst contributing to a commercially viable business.
Although your focus will be on managing the landscape and our Countryside Stewardship delivery, your remit will cover the whole country park. You will be responsible for leading all staff and volunteer teams, so experience of people management is essential, as is a strong knowledge of landscape management and delivering agri-environment schemes. You will also have experience of overseeing the day-to-day requirements of maintaining legally compliant buildings and facilities.
Working with both in-house and external partners, you must be able to communicate and build relationships with external stakeholders.
You must be a self-starter, flexible, committed and willing to “get stuck in” to solve issues across the whole site. The working pattern for this post includes regular weekend and bank holiday duty cover on a rota basis and working longer hours between April and October, with a shorter week for the remainder of the year.
SDNPA is an inclusive organisation, and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, faith and religion, disability and age.
We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) for disabled applicants.
SDNPA Enhanced Benefits
- Flexible working
- Local government pension scheme
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Heat Scheme
- Healthcare
- Access to Health and Wellbeing portal and webinars
- 27 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Professional development support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car sharing
- Use of pool cars
- Regular staff events / activities
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