Land Assembly & GIS Specialist

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

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.