Senior Estates Surveyor

Senior Estates Surveyor MRICS

Local Authority

£42,000 - £45,000

• You will be managing the Council’s land and property estate, negotiating leases, licenses, rent reviews, monitoring debt, securing and monitoring empty properties prove professional advice, support and guidance to Valuers and Assistant Valuers and ensure that performance objectives are achieved, teamwork is effective and technical work is carried out satisfactorily.
• In the role you will negotiate terms and charges with statutory authorities and other bodies for easements, wayleaves, licences and rights of way affecting land in the ownership of the council.
• You will be marketing and negotiating the sale or lease of council properties and organise projects and budget to achieve Council targets. You will also be purchasing property by agreement or under compulsory powers.
• Developing innovative solutions to technical issues, you will ensure that appropriate solutions are proposed and successfully implemented and consult on issues with wider implications whilst meeting service regulations and codes of practice.
• Responsibility will be yours to prepare and present reports, ensuring that they are completed on time and are a clear summary of any issues and implications and represent the Council as an advocate for the Council’s interest.
• This is a hybrid working role, with a mixture of working from home, office based working and attending site visits as required.

What We Need From You

• It is essential that you have a Degree in Estate management or equivalent and have Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, General Practice Division.
• You must have post qualification experience working in a commercial organisation or local authority.
• You will have relevant practical experience of planning and progressing work activities within general professional guidelines, demonstrating proven management acumen and motivating staff to achieve organisational objectives and successful technical outcomes.
• We require you to have effective IT skills and working knowledge of word processing, databases and spreadsheet packages, ideally, experience of MapInfo (although training will be given if needed)
• You will possess good communication and organisational skills and be able to meet commercial and contractual deadlines and able to persuade and influence others and deliver on project outcomes.
• It is desirable that you are a Registered Valuer and experience of Local Government practises and procedures.