Welcome
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a world-famous scientific organisation, leading visitor attraction and UNESCO World Heritage Site, internationally respected for its outstanding living collection of plants and its world-class herbarium. Set in 330 acres, the Kew Gardens site is a beautiful place to work, and employs committed staff who are working to achieve Kew’s mission to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth. RBG Kew has a second UK site at Wakehurst, West Sussex. The estates consist of over 380 buildings and structures, 40 plus listed buildings, which are used for visitors, scientific research, storage of national collections and administration. In 2020 RBG Kew published its ambitious new corporate strategy laying out its strategic priorities to 2030 to tackle the twin global challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. The Manifesto for Change is supported by Kew’s Sustainability Strategy – Climate Positive by 2030. The Director of Estates provides leadership for all aspects of our built estate. Reporting to the Director of Resources, it is an exciting time to be joining Kew in this capacity with the opportunity to make a real and lasting difference. We have recently insourced our Estates function, and are making significant investment in our built estate through ongoing maintenance and capital infrastructure projects to deal with many years of under investment. We look forward to discussing your plans on how we can continue to transform our sites both at Kew Gardens and at Wakehurst.
Richard Deverell
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