District Valuer Services Chartered Valuation Surveyor
- Employer
- Valuation Office Agency (VOA)
- Location
- Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness
- Salary
- £40,375 - £45,250
- Closing date
- 12 Aug 2021
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- Sector
- Land, Property
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Specialism
- Commercial Property, Valuation & Ratings
- Level
- Chartered Surveyor
- Business Type
- Public Sector
Job Details
Location
Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness
Summary
Do you have a passion for public and customer services and want to make a difference? If so, we would like to hear from you.
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is an executive agency of HMRC with around 3,600 people currently employed.
We require dedicated and knowledgeable RICS Chartered Surveyors to join the District Valuer Services (DVS) Team.
Job description
DVS Team
VOA DVS operates on a commercial basis, in competition with the private sector in all but our National Taxation business sector, providing a wide range of advice across all aspects of the public sector. The business is organised into 5 sectors:
National Taxation
Largely working as a provider of statutory valuations.
- We provide advice to HMRC on valuations and apportionments for Capital Gains tax, Inheritance tax, and Annual tax on enveloped dwellings. This includes the valuation of rural and agricultural property including forestry
- Determinations of value for Right to Buy in England - Responsibility as the appointed District Valuer to consider the representations from parties and make a valuation determination that will be adopted by the parties.
- Advice on capital valuations required by the Department for Work and Pensions to support the delivery of DWP Benefits.
- We also make decisions on appeals against the Community Infrastructure Levy, as the appointed statutory officer to consider the representations from parties and make a determination that will be adopted by the parties.
Transport
- We work with major infrastructure providers including Highways England, Transport for Scotland, Wales and HS2. We deal with all aspects of compulsory purchase and compensation
- We work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver infrastructure projects, from early scheme design to final settlement of compensation
- We advise in respect of all property types including agricultural, commercial, residential and development land
- We are involved in projects in all parts of the country
Health
- We provide Asset Valuations to a range of NHS Bodies for Financial reporting purposes
- We advise on Current Market Rent Assessments of GP Premises under the NHS Directions
- We deliver Primary Care Third Party Development advice to the NHS
- We undertake Value for Money recommendations to the NHS
- We give Acquisition and Disposal advice included NHS Estate Code compliance
- We advise on Landlord and Tenant – new leases, lease renewals, rent reviews
- Plus, a full range of general valuation advice to NHS clients
Local & Devolved Government
- We provide valuation advice to a variety of clients including Local Authorities and Devolved Government.We undertake a significant amount of red book valuation work across a number of sectors supporting our public sector colleagues in undertaking this work for acquisitions/disposals purposes.
- Planning Viability – This work relates to advising local planning authorities as to the ability of development schemes to be able to deliver s106/affordable housing contributions. As this area of work has grown over the last decade DVS has been at the forefront of the developments affecting our clients but also working with the RICS in terms of developing professional guidance.
- Asset Valuation work – a key area is the work we undertake for a variety of public sector bodies to support their financial accounts. This involves a wide range of property types from Commercial to Retail to Residential. Valuation methodologies include Investment, DRC and Comparable basis.
Central Government
- We provide valuations for financial accounting purposes to bodies such as Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, Department for Transport, Parliamentary Estate, DVSA & Government of Jersey.
- We give advice to Government Legal Department on bona vacantia
- We provide appraisals for Academy and Free Schools Valuations.
- Valuations for Housing Associations.
- Assistance to the Land Registry in connection with Indemnity Claims arising under Land Registration Act 2002.
You will be responsible for key client account management and supporting the future work pipeline via commercial tenders, agreeing terms for direct awards and building strong and trusted client relationships.
You will be fully supported with a clear learning and development plan and will receive structured support and training from our team of professional experts.
You will enjoy a responsible and varied role that includes regular property inspections and travel.
You will be responsible for supporting and developing our pipeline of trainee surveyors and supporting them through their APC and coaching peers in areas of particular technical skills/knowledge.
You may be undertaking a range of work in our business including but not limited to rural, forestry, agricultural and renewable energy valuations.
Responsibilities
Person Specification
Successful candidates will need the following technical expertise, skills and knowledge:
- Some of the work we undertake for clients often involves rural and agricultural property valuations. Therefore, a sound knowledge of rural and agricultural matters including experience of providing valuations of agricultural property and / or forestry is required
- Demonstrate that you can apply your professional expertise, appropriate legislation, case law and codes of practice to your decision making
- The ability to provide good quality valuation and property advice, that meets all current best practice and RICS standards
- A good understanding of rural and agricultural property. Demonstrate strong analytical and judgement skills by interpreting a range of evidence to reach sound conclusions and make effective decisions
- The ability to work as part of a team and to motivate and inspire others to deliver results, including sharing your professional knowledge to help develop others
- Great communication skills and be able to deal with a wide range of customers and stakeholders
- The ability to deliver work against milestones and act promptly to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands
- A personal and professional commitment to your ongoing development
Essential Requirements
- MRICS / FRICS in either Valuation, Real Estate or Rural pathway.
- Full driving licence.
- Willingness to travel, some overnight stays may be required.
- Willingness to be flexible on work areas
- The candidate must be eligible to join the RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS), criteria as determined by the RICS is as follows
Desirable Requirements
- Experience of tendering, pricing and general commercial awareness
- Experience of mentoring and developing others in property related matters
- Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers
Qualifications
- Full MRICS Qualification
- Eligible to join the RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS), criteria as determined by the RICS as per the following link
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- There will be a Technical element within the interview where you will be asked a series of questions to demonstrate your specific professional skills and knowledge related directly to the job role and context.
Benefits
We offer a range of flexible working options, a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days and goes up to 30 days after 5 years’ service and a pension scheme. Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 4 weeks at full pay.
The most popular parts of our reward package include:
- Pay – in the few years, we have increased both the minimum and maximum pay points for everyone in the VOA and implemented a new pay scale specifically for qualified surveyors.
- Pension - we make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 26% of their salary.
- Working hours and location flexibility – everyone in the VOA has some opportunity to work from home, and we support a full range of flexible working options including part time, part year, compressed hours and job shares.
- Family friendly policies – including four weeks of paid paternity leave
- Personal support – we offer extensive special leave to help balance your life and work commitments, a variety of non-financial rewards (including a Cycle to Work scheme of up to £4000) and we work with professional providers to provide occupational health and full mental and physical wellbeing services.
Download the Employee Value Proposition for full details of the benefits of being a VOA employee at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/valuation-office-agency/about/recruitment
For further information and details on how to apply, please click the 'Apply' button.
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