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New Leadership for Shared Assets

Shared Assets
Remote working (UK-based)

Posted: 17 Aug 2026

Deadline: 14 Sep 2026

Compensation: £51,750 pro rata (£43,125 0.8 FTE)

Living Wage employer

Paid Permanent Remote working

Job description

Shared Assets needs new leadership for its next era. We have a pipeline of committed work, and a real opportunity ahead of us. What we need now is the right person, or people, to step in and deliver that work, and, just as importantly, to lead and reshape the organisation.

We are looking for a strategic and collaborative leader who is passionate about changing the UK land system. 

Who we’re looking for

We're not looking for a fixed set of qualifications so much as a particular kind of person, or combination of people. We're looking for:

• Strategic vision for Shared Assets and for the wider UK land system

• A genuine desire to lead

• Experience running small organisations, including financial and cashflow management

• Desire to design the organisation, creating healthy working practices and building the right kind of team

• Strength in network-building, business development/fundraising and relationship management

• Boundary-spanning capability, credibility in a lot of different rooms, from grassroots groups to funders, to local authorities, landowners and policymakers

• Knowledge and experience relevant to land justice in the UK, including a track record of working with communities and/or of shaping policy and research

• Comfort with the emergent, unfinished nature of small organisations

• The ability to hold and navigate tension and conflict

• Good facilitation and space holding

Overall, you will need to be ready to draw on your experience and step into the role of a leader/s for the organisation. We know you will require support to understand the organisation as it stands, and we plan to provide you with the right information and tools.

This is not a conventional recruitment process, and we're not looking to fill a conventional role. We want to hear your vision for what Shared Assets could be, and how you (alone, or with others) might lead it there.

Find out more on our website, and read the Recruitment Pack to find out more

If you have questions about the role or the process, please email them to jobs@sharedassets.org.uk. We’ll keep a running record of questions received and our answers here.  

Application information

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