Senior Estates Surveyor

West Northamptonshire Council; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking council as a Senior Estates Surveyor, where you'll manage a diverse property portfolio and provide strategic advice to enhance community outcomes. This role offers the chance to work on complex projects, mentor junior staff, and contribute to the Council's vision of creating a vibrant community. With a focus on best practices in property strategy and management, you'll play a key role in maximizing revenue and minimizing costs. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to make a real impact in local governance and community development.

Qualifications

• Experience in property management and estate surveying.
• Strong negotiation and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse property portfolio and deliver property management activities.
• Provide professional advice to clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Legal Knowledge

Technical Advice

Education

RICS Accreditation

Degree in Surveying or Related Field

Job description

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About the role

West Northamptonshire Council is currently seeking to appoint a Senior Estates Surveyor into its Property Strategy and Estates team. As a member of the team, the Senior Estates Surveyor will have the opportunity to work on an extremely varied and diverse property portfolio. The role will include the delivery of high-profile property management activities including lease renewals, rent reviews, title disputes etc which have a significant degree of legal complexity as well asset disposals and acquisitions, working.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at West Northamptonshire Council. You will support the Councils objectives of shaping a Property Strategy and Estates function that will be an example of best practice, and one that will deliver the best outcomes for the residents of the West Northamptonshire.

What will you be doing?

In the role of Senior Estates Surveyor, you will have the opportunity to work on an extremely varied case load, covering a diverse property portfolio. Reporting to the Estates Manager or the Property Strategy and Major Transactions Manager (as appropriate), you will deliver a programme of Landlord and Tenant activities, including lease renewals and rent reviews as well as asset disposals and acquisitions to meet the Council's best value obligations.

You will also be involved in the day-to-day management of the Councils extensive commercial investment portfolio which includes office, retail, and industrial properties across West Northamptonshire. You will support the wider estates team to deliver service objectives, seeking to minimise outgoings and maximise revenue income.

You will deliver high quality professional and technical advice to internal and external clients, and stakeholders, and support the Council's transformation and property rationalisation agenda.

You will be a mentor to junior members of the team, providing technical advice and guidance and support the Council's Graduate Estate Surveyor(s) to become professional members of the RICS. You may also be required to line manage members of the Team as and when necessary.

About you

You'll bring with you a wealth of experience which will enable you to ensure the efficient and cost-effective running of opera tional, income producing and strategic sites and individual assets to minimise outgoings and maximise income. Your strong negotiation skills will aid the acquisition and disposal of property, rights, and licences, including compensation claims, as directed. You'll provide invaluable estates support on legal and contract issues.

Excellent project management skills are essential as you'll manage complex projects on behalf of the Council and other stakeholders and will plan, identify, and anticipate challenges and obstacles within those projects and work with stakeholders.

Your strong communication skills will enable you to represent the team as an interface between Tenants and the Council on operational property matters, and to represent the interests of key stakeholders and to provide good quality professional advice on estate management and valuation matters, and to advise colleagues on professional and technical issues.

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council .

About us

At West Northants Council, it's about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is 'to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive'. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us .

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