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Iris Recruitment; New Earswick; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is seeking a Senior Surveyor to provide technical leadership across our Property Services team, ensuring homes are safe, well maintained and compliant with statutory requirements. You will lead on complex property issues, focusing on damp, disrepair and housing hazards, while ensuring evidence-based decisions withstand scrutiny.

This is an influential, on-site role requiring at least three days a week on site and travel between sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the identification, diagnosis and resolution of complex property condition issues, with a focus on damp and mould, disrepair, housing hazards and statutory compliance.
• Provide professional oversight and technical direction to the surveying function, ensuring decisions are evidence-based and robust for legal/regulatory scrutiny.
• Support quality assurance and continuous service improvement and manage complaints, litigation and regulatory enquiries as required.

Job description

Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

*Please note that we do not currently offer any Tier 2 sponsorship*

About the role

Here at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we’re seeking a Senior Surveyor to provide technical leadership across our Property Services team, ensuring our homes are safe, well maintained and compliant with statutory and organisational requirements.

You’ll lead on the identification, diagnosis and resolution of complex property condition issues, with a particular focus on damp and mould, disrepair, housing hazards and statutory compliance, including the requirements of Awaab’s Law. You’ll ensure high-risk cases, particularly those involving vulnerable residents, are identified, prioritised and resolved promptly and effectively.

Providing professional oversight and technical direction to the surveying function, you’ll ensure decisions are evidence-based, consistent and robust enough to withstand legal, regulatory and external scrutiny. You’ll also provide technical expertise in relation to complaints, litigation and regulatory enquiries, while supporting quality assurance and continuous service improvement.

This is an influential role where your technical expertise, professional judgement and commitment to resident safety will directly contribute to improving the quality of our homes and the experience of our residents.

JRHT strives to be a housing association that is sustainable and engaging, providing high quality and continuously improving services and decent affordable homes in well managed communities prioritising those in greatest need.

Additional Information

We are a values driven organisation and our values drive our behaviours. We’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and we hope others will do the same. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace, where all colleagues can be themselves.

Due to the duties of this role, there is a requirement to be on site for at least three days a week and travel between sites is a requirement of the role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty.

As part of our commitment to equity and specifically anti-racism, we operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

Closing date for applications is 25th September 2026

Interviews will take place on w/c 5th October 2026

Please note that we will be shortlisting and interviewing on an on-going basis and reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received.