Senior Estates Surveyor

Starting salary is £41,496 (Level One) rising to £43,516 (Level Two) on the first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period (pro rata for part time workers).

Welcome to Nottingham

Nottingham is a high profile, diverse, exciting city - a great place to live and work with a rich heritage and vibrant culture including leading arts venues and world class universities and sporting venues. As one of the UK’s Core Cities, Nottingham plays a vital role in the regional and national economy. We are currently working with our neighbouring councils and the Government on a billion pound devolution deal to bring new powers and funding to the East Mildands. Home to the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change, we’ve made a commitment to becoming the UK’s first carbon neutral city by 2028. We’ve developed one of the best low carbon public transport networks in the country and we’re leading the way in reimagining the future of city centres with an ambitious vision for the Broad Marsh redevelopment, a scheme of international significance.

But we are also a council on a major improvement journey. Through our Together for Nottingham Plan, we are transforming the way the council works to ensure we are providing excellent Best Value services to the people of Nottingham.

The Council has a significant and varied property portfolio consisting of commercial, operation and investment assets valued at over £1bn. The Property function plays a key role in delivering our income aspirations, leads on strategies linked to its operational portfolio, and supports significant regeneration projects. As part of the Council’s transformation journey we are also in the process of implementing the Corporate Landlord model to ensure more effective and efficient management of our estate.

As an employer, we want to give you the opportunity to be part of our journey. We’re building a solid future, ensuring our citizens, businesses, investors and visitors can enjoy a flourishing, prosperous city. We have a great workforce here at Nottingham, but we need more talented, ambitious people to join us to help deliver our objectives in the Strategic Asset Plan.

What we’re looking for

When you join us in this role you’ll be a member of the team providing the delivery of holistic asset and property management activities. Supporting our Principal Surveyors in driving the Council’s commercial asset priorities to improve the performance of our property portfolio, your work will include providing professional property advice and expertise to colleagues and supporting the Council’s property disposal, acquisition and asset valuation programme and wider regeneration ambitions.

Other responsibilities will include undertaking estate management duties and dealing with day-to-day estate management issues with respect to an identified portfolio of Council assets. These duties will involve the recovery of arrears, undertaking inspections, tenant liaison and ensuring tenant compliance, asset management, and negotiation with occupiers, purchasers and developers. You’ll also identify revenue and capital generating opportunities, and engage in the planning, delivery and review of the commercial portfolio.

What you’ll bring to the role

An MRICS with relevant post-qualification experience, you will have drive, motivation and be ready to deliver against challenging objectives while working to develop a culture of collaboration. With the confidence and ability to put forward ideas for change, you will have worked successfully in partnership across different sectors and be capable of identifying problems and working to create solutions.

It's essential that you understand the equality, diversity and inclusion challenges faced by our workforce and the people of the city, and in addition to knowledge of the law and the valuation practices required in managing a mixed property portfolio, you’ll have experience of delivering multi-disciplinary property projects. Resilient, diplomatic and calm under pressure, you’ll have a good working knowledge of valuation, estate management and negotiation and the ability to analyse property issues, identify solutions and recommend appropriate action.

What we can give you

As one of our region’s leading employers, we place high value on investing in our people, and in addition to a number of support, training and development programmes, offer a wide range of rewards and benefits. As well as your pay, pensions, holiday entitlement and flexible ways of working to help you achieve a good work life balance, you can choose from a variety of other employee benefits.

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference. We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes. We have always been open to flexible working and the COVID-19 pandemic provided us with some new options to work in a completely different way. We welcome a conversation about flexible working at the point of interview.

Applicants should submit their CV and covering letter as one document outlining how their current skills, knowledge and experience meets the criteria outlined above. Applicants should remove any personal details from their CV and Covering Letter (including their name), as part of our commitment to remove the risk of unconscious bias. The application process will capture your personal details (including your name) and these details will only be made visible to recruiting managers once the shortlisting stage has been completed

For more information, please view the Job Description and Person Specification.

For informal enquiries please contact Steve Sprason,  Email: steve.sprason@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Useful information for Applicants Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions information, which includes advice on pay, annual leave and hours of working, and our Total Rewards Package, which includes information on some of the great benefits when working for Nottingham City Council. This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, as detailed in the job description and person specification, is an essential requirement for the role. 

  Nottingham City Council are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we are striving to have a reflective workforce of the citizens we serve. As a result of our commitment, we anonymise all applications to remove the risk of unconscious bias. The application process will capture your personal details (including your name) and these details will only be made visible to recruiting managers once the shortlisting stage has been completed. If you have any technical issues completing your application form please contact https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home