Qualified Surveyor - Estate Management

Carter Jonas LLP; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

Flexible benefits

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Carter Jonas LLP’s Rural team seeks an experienced Qualified Surveyor to support a growing portfolio of private clients and rural estates across East Anglia. You will provide strategic estate management and professional consultancy to maximise income, capital value and long-term objectives.

You will work across diverse rural assets, advise on estate strategy, diversification, and opportunities in renewable energy, environmental markets and natural capital.

Qualifications

• MRICS qualified with rural estate management experience.
• Experience advising private clients and rural estates.
• Commercially aware with diversification, development, renewable energy or environmental projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of rural estates and private landholdings across East Anglia, providing strategic estate management and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Develop and implement estate strategies to enhance income and maximise long-term capital value.
• Identify and deliver diversification opportunities including renewable energy schemes and environmental projects.
• Provide high-level management advice, coordinating with estate management surveyors, consultants and agents to deliver client outcomes.
• Lead and support rural planning and development projects from concept through consent and delivery.
• Collaborate with Partners and Rural division colleagues to secure new instructions and drive business development.
• Work with Planning, Energy, Infrastructure and Residential teams to maximise value for clients.
• Contribute to developing specialist expertise and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Keep up to date with agricultural, environmental, planning and property legislation for informed client advice.

Skills

MRICS

Estate management

Client relationships

Project delivery

Education

MRICS chartered surveyor

Job description

Our Rural team is looking to recruit an experienced and ambitious Qualified Surveyor to support a growing portfolio of private clients and rural estates across East Anglia.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a market-leading team, providing strategic estate management and professional consultancy services that help clients maximise income, enhance capital value and achieve their long-term objectives. Working across a diverse range of rural assets, you will advise on estate strategy, diversification, development opportunities and emerging areas such as renewable energy, natural capital and environmental markets.

The role offers significant scope for professional development, with the opportunity to work alongside specialists across the business and develop expertise in areas such as energy, rural planning, estate diversification and sustainable land use. You will play an important role in maintaining exceptional client relationships, delivering high-quality advice and supporting the continued growth of the Rural division.

Main Tasks

• Manage a portfolio of rural estates and private client landholdings, primarily across East Anglia, providing strategic estate management advice and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Develop and implement estate strategies that enhance income generation, improve operational performance and maximise long-term capital value.
• Identify, evaluate and deliver diversification opportunities, including renewable energy schemes, environmental and natural capital projects, leisure, tourism and other rural enterprise initiatives.
• Provide high-level management advice, coordinating with estate management surveyors, consultants, agents and other professional advisers to deliver effective outcomes for clients.
• Lead and support rural planning and development projects from initial concept through to consent, implementation and ongoing management.
• Work closely with Partners and colleagues across the Rural division to support business development activity and secure new instructions.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Planning & Development, Energy, Infrastructure and Residential teams to identify and deliver opportunities that maximise value for clients.
• Contribute to the development of specialist expertise within the team and support knowledge sharing across the wider business.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of agricultural, environmental, planning and property legislation, ensuring clients receive informed and commercially focused advice.

What will it take to be successful?

You will be MRICS qualified, with experience in rural estate management and professional consultancy.

Commercially aware and client-focused, you'll have the ability to identify opportunities that enhance estate performance and long-term value, alongside experience of diversification, development, renewable energy or environmental projects.

Strong communication, relationship management and project delivery skills are essential, as is a collaborative approach and a genuine interest in helping clients navigate the evolving rural sector.

We offer a highly competitive rewards package including group pension, flexible benefits, referral schemes and generous annual leave.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to driving diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Learning and development is important to us; we encourage everyone to continue developing to optimise their performance and fulfil their potential. We have an agile flexible working policy; many of our team work flexibly, we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you. We enjoy what we do, and we do it well, which is why 80% of our business comes from repeat clients.

About us:

Since 1855, Carter Jonas has grown to be one of the largest and most respected property consultancies in the UK with a network of 34 offices across England and Wales, employing more than 1,000 partners and employees.

Our tailored service and Simply Better Advice have enabled us to forge lasting, intelligent and trusting partnerships with our clients. These long-standing relationships are our most important and most closely protected asset. From private landowners to local authorities, pension funds to farmers – our universe of client experience is among the most varied in UK property.

We employ the very best people. We are a place where people want to work, and our culture is both collaborative and business minded. We have experts in every field who deliver long term advice that enhances our clients’ future prosperity.

Ahead of the curve, we are pioneering in the use of technology within the property industry, making Carter Jonas a hugely exciting place to work.

Our values:

• Approachable – We treat every relationship with respect, integrity, and warmth
• Effective – We do what we say we will, we do it well and we are accountable
• Ambitious – We are ambitious for our clients and for our firm

We look to recruit individuals who represent our core values, but who can also demonstrate the six Carter Jonas competencies that are the foundation of our career pathways. These competencies will aide their personal development in the business, and comprise of:

• Communication - Ensures effective, clear, and relevant communications in support of business objectives
• People - Demonstrates leadership in conduct and effectively manages and develops people to optimise performance through others
• Business Development & Client Care - Ensures effective communication to facilitate excellent client care and collaboration and pursuing opportunities for increased business and profit mindful of the Firm’s heritage and values
• Use of Technology - Modern, Agile, Digital Employee
• Teamwork - Recognises the importance of working with others, to collaborate and co-operate to achieve business
• Personal Effectiveness & Productivity- Engage, promote, and adhere to compliance requirements including all internal processes and procedures which manage risk and enhance productivity.