Senior Specialist Surveyor

Location: Flexible within South-Central Wales

Grade & Salary: 8, £45,739 rising to £50,516 over three years

Post number: 200901

Type of contract: Permanent

Work pattern: Full time - 37 hours, flexible working available

Closing date: 13 June 2022

Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose

You will be working with the Specialist Surveyor and Technical Support Surveyor, as part of the South-Central Land Management team, within the Land and Assets team in South Wales Operations. The Land Management team helps ensure the land we manage is safe and welcoming, so everyone can enjoy visiting the Welsh Government Woodland Estate. 

You will be supporting and informing the varied work of the South-Central Operations team in this unique and busy part of Wales. The work ranges through all aspects of forestry operations and land management to flood and water asset management, negotiating environmental land agreements, leading on land acquisitions, supporting delivery of commercial agreements, managing lease and access agreements, overseeing community management agreements and all aspects of proactive land stewardship.

You need to be enthusiastic, forward thinking, pragmatic and practical with outstanding interpersonal skills. You will be an excellent communicator and be able to work closely with multiple customers, partners and stakeholders to embed SMNR and delivery of wellbeing outcomes in a diverse area of Wales.

You will provide a high-level, expert professional, role within South Central Wales. This includes being responsible for (directly and by the advice given) ensuring NRW manages the significant financial, legal, operational, and reputational risks arising from the management of land and assets in South Central area.

The role is mainly hybrid working based with regular site visits within South-Central Wales.

Qualifications and Skills

• Full Chartered Surveyor membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. (RICS) RICS Registered Valuer or a willingness to become one. Substantial relevant experience in the field and ability to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and personal and professional credibility and a commitment to continuing professional development. Excellent people management, financial management, leadership and influencing skills. Able to manage complex Projects and Programmes of work. Proven ability to manage financial, legal, operational and reputational risk around the post holder’s area of work and identify risks to the business. In-depth knowledge in land and property management to enable the provision of objective advice to others on specialist issues. Confidence and the ability to discuss policy and legal land stewardship issues with a range of audiences. Excellent inter-personal and influencing skills and the ability to develop and maintain good relationships and networks with a range of individuals and at all levels. Excellent negotiating skills employed to achieve the best outcome for NRW. Expertise in identifying areas for cost reduction and increasing income.

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