Chartered Surveyor - National Taxation – South East

Valuation Office Agency (VOA); London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector property valuation agency is seeking a Chartered Surveyor in National Taxation to lead on high-profile valuation casework. The ideal candidate will have full MRICS or FRICS qualifications, strong leadership abilities, and exceptional negotiation skills. This role requires a full UK driving licence and entails regular travel across the South East region. Competitive salary of £57,363 plus significant pension contributions and flexible working options are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous leave allowance starting at 25 days

Civil Service Pension with average employer contribution of 28.97%

Qualifications

• Advanced technical surveying knowledge and understanding of legislation relating to taxation values.
• Strong leadership skills and capability to influence stakeholders.
• Full UK driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and support to the national tax team.
• Undertake high-profile valuation casework within the National Taxation sector.
• Manage complex cases effectively and improve customer satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Technical surveying knowledge

Communication skills

Risk management

Education

Full MRICS or FRICS qualification

Job description

Location

Birmingham, Cambridge, Canary Wharf, Colchester, Croydon, Eastbourne, Folkestone, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, Wembley.

Please note: The successful candidate will be responsible for the South East region, which includes Southampton, Bournemouth and Folkestone. Therefore, regular travel to these and other locations across the region will be required. The frequency of travel will vary dependent upon business needs.

About the job

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. As one of the largest employers of surveyors in the country, our work is vital to the collection of over £60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales.

We champion the values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation. We are committed to providing a collaborative and supportive working environment that encourages every colleague to contribute, grow and excel together. With opportunities to drive your own development and growth, we empower our colleagues to succeed by ensuring support at every step of their career journey.

Job description

Chartered Surveyor - National Taxation – Role Overview

Our Chartered Surveyor – National Taxation role sits within the National Taxation team of the VOA’s District Valuation Services (DVS).

The National Taxation team provide valuations and advice for National Taxation (NT) purposes on behalf of HMRC, Community Infrastructure Levy, Right to Buy and DWP Benefits.

DVS is the business stream tasked with providing a range of statutory and non-statutory functions. These are:

• Provision of advice on valuations and apportionments for national taxation purposes.
• Provision of valuations and property advice for Other Public Bodies (OPBs) to support their implementation of a wide range of regulatory and legislative functions.
• The delivery of government policies and estate strategies in situations where there is a property requirement related to the exercising of a public function and or public money is involved.
• This majority of the work is untied and undertaken on a contractual ‘earned funding’ full cost recovery charging basis. Some is fix funded.

This is a technical surveying and leadership role providing an excellent opportunity to lead on high profile and complex casework for all property types. The role holder will work within a fast-paced team to meet increased client requirements, providing leadership, guidance, and valuation advice to clients and supporting valuers within DVS primarily on a regional (but also on occasion, national) basis.

Chartered Surveyor - National Taxation – Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to the national tax team, primarily on a regional (but also on occasion, national) basis.
• Support the DVS management team working closely with Team Leaders and the Sector Head to ensure a diverse workforce with the ability to transfer skills across the sector in pursuit of delivering agreed quality and budgetary targets.
• Undertaking complex and high-profile valuation casework within the National Taxation sector, including HMRC and DWP valuations to support the administration of Benefits, Right to Buy and Community Infrastructure Levy.
• Supporting the management of NT’s Initial Appraisal Unit and the delivery of HMRC’s initial appraisals.
• Providing support to London geographical area in regard to Trade related valuations and Development Appraisals.
• Liaising with a broad range of specialists on technical and policy issues.
• Reviewing high profile or complex valuations. Identifying risks and issues, making recommendations on action to be taken and ensuring quality assurance and timeliness standards are adhered to.
• Providing detailed technical guidance, training, and mentoring to DVS caseworkers on a regional and national basis.
• Ensuring an awareness of the wider political, economic, social, technical, environmental, and legislative agendas that impact DVS and the National Taxation Sector.
• Reporting to stakeholders up to and including Ministerial level where necessary.
• Effective risk management of National Taxation casework to support timeliness and realise tax yield where this is properly due.
• Improving customer satisfaction and improving the taxpayer experience.
• Ability to act as an expert witness, appearance before arbitrators or submission of evidence to independent experts and Lands Tribunals where required.
• Support the sharing of skills and best practice across team and encourage innovation.

Person specification

We are seeking a candidate with advanced technical surveying knowledge and a strong understanding of relevant legislation, case law relating to valuation for taxation purposes.

The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills with the ability to build strong, credible relationships and can engage with, and influence, stakeholders at all levels. The role holder will also possess exceptional negotiation skills in complex and challenging valuation cases, applying technical expertise and capability.

Essential Requirements

• Full MRICS or FRICS qualification.
• You must be a Registered Valuer through RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS), criteria as determined by the RICS is as follows: https://www.rics.org/globalassets/rics-website/media/upholding-professional-standards/regulation/rules-for-registration-of-schemes_2020.pdf
• An extensive valuation knowledge and legislative knowledge which you proactively keep up-to-date and use to provide advice and guidance to your team.
• Strong leadership skills, encouraging innovation and sharing of best practice.
• The ability to coach, support and provide feedback to individuals in order to improve their performance and achieve their potential.
• Experience of delivering projects or services to high quality standards using effective prioritisation skills to manage competing demands.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build credible relationships and influence a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent horizon scanning skills, applying problem-solving techniques, sound technical and professional judgement, to mitigate risks.
• A full UK driving licence is required and a willingness to travel is essential as you will be covering a wide geographical area (South East) for inspection and management purposes. The successful candidate will be expected on occasions to travel to other VOA locations including London in connection with their role, which may include overnight stays.

Licences

Full UK Driving Licence

Qualifications

Full MRICS or FRICS qualification is essential.

Memberships

You must be a Registered Valuer through RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS), criteria as determined by the RICS is as follows: https://www.rics.org/globalassets/rics-website/media/upholding-professional-standards/regulation/rules-for-registration-of-schemes_2020.pdf

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be asked technical questions at interview to assess your professional knowledge and experience.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,363, Valuation Office Agency contributes £16,618 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• We offer a range of flexible working options, a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days (increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.) and aCivil Service Pensionwith an average employer contribution of 28.97%.

  • Learning and development tailored to your role.
  • An environment with flexible working options.
  • Family friendly policies including 26 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.
  • Employee Assistance Programme offering comprehensive wellbeing support.
  • To learn more about the extensive benefits we can offer you as a VOA employee please download our Benefits Booklet:VOA_benefits_booklet.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

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