Land Assembly Assistant

High Speed Two (HS2); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits fund (15% on top of

Pensionable salary

Job summary

High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd in Birmingham is seeking a Land and Property professional to lead land assembly, coordinate PSCs and ensure notices for acquisition and surveys are prepared and signed off.

You will manage day-to-day PSC activities with a budget around £2m per Area, using data and GIS tools to maintain accuracy and support delivery, while promoting inclusion across all workstreams.

Qualifications

• Data management skills, including land referencing data recording, analysis and assurance.
• Ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders and agree requirements.
• Ability to analyse and manipulate data within a Geographical Information System and digital mapping environment.
• Project management skills, to ensure deliverables are provided within agreed time, cost and quality criteria.

Responsibilities

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Lead workshops with Area Teams, Enabling Works Contractors (EWC)/Main Works Civils Contractors (MWCC), Land Referencing Consultants (PSC), Acquisitions and Independent Land Advisor (ILA) to ensure final land acquisition boundary and land requirements are prepared and signed off
• Verify existence of undertakings and assurances in relation to advance notice of compulsory purchase and entry within the allocated contract
• Manage the day to day activities and deliveries from the PSCs with annual budget of c. £2m per Area
• Assure referencing data provided by PSCs to support acquisition by compulsory purchase powers, possession, handback or access for surveys;
• Prepare possession and acquisition notices for approval by Land Assembly, Legal and by the ILA;
• Approve notices for entry to land for survey purposes;
• Manage daily progress trackers, escalating any deliverables which have been delayed to the contractors;
• Lead collaborative working with PSC to improve efficiency of process’
• Maintain a register of all notices prepared, served and returned, for the contract area

Skills

Data management

Stakeholder coordination

GIS analysis

Project management

Tools

Excel

GIS

Database reporting

Job description

Salary - Base salary: £26,900 pa to c.£31,600pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15 % which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

If you are a graduate in Geography, Geospatial Science, Mapping Sciences, or a related spatial discipline, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the role:

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Lead workshops with Area Teams, Enabling Works Contractors (EWC)/Main Works Civils Contractors (MWCC), Land Referencing Consultants (PSC), Acquisitions and Independent Land Advisor (ILA) to ensure final land acquisition boundary and land requirements are prepared and signed off
• Verify existence of undertakings and assurances in relation to advance notice of compulsory purchase and entry within the allocated contract
• Manage the day to day activities and deliveries from the PSCs with annual budget of c. £2m per Area
• Assure referencing data provided by PSCs to support acquisition by compulsory purchase powers, possession, handback or access for surveys;
• Prepare possession and acquisition notices for approval by Land Assembly, Legal and by the ILA;
• Approve notices for entry to land for survey purposes;
• Manage daily progress trackers, escalating any deliverables which have been delayed to the contractors;
• Lead collaborative working with PSC to improve efficiency of process’
• Maintain a register of all notices prepared, served and returned, for the contract area

About You:

Skills:

• Data management skills, including land referencing data recording, analysis and assurance;
• Ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders and agree requirements;
• Ability to analyse and manipulate data within a Geographical Information System and digital mapping environment;
• Project management skills, to ensure deliverables are provided within agreed time, cost and quality criteria.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of land referencing;
• Understanding of land assembly activities and compulsory purchase;
• Understanding of compulsory purchase powers;
• Knowledge of Registration of title (Land Registry).

Type of Experience:

• Experience of land referencing and assembly;
• Experience of compiling and analysing data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools;
• Experience of operating within a project/programme environment.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

Job Info

• Job Identification 260462
• Job Category Land and Property
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 2 Snowhill, Birmingham, B4 6GA, GB
• Permanent or Fixed Term Contract Permanent