Asset Review Manager

Posted 22 Mar 2024

Cambridge County Council

Huntingdon (Business or Strategic Mgmt.)


Job Type:permanentDuration:
Category:Business or Strategic Mgmt.Recruiter Reference:Ref/55525/3991
URL for Applications:Apply HereSalary:£48210 - £51545

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for an asset review manager to lead the development and implementation of a property asset management strategy across the organisation.  

The successful candidate can expect a salary in the region of £45,000, for someone of the right experience, with annual performance reviews. You will benefit from generous annual holidays, an excellent pension scheme, assistance with cost of relocation of up to £4,000 (subject to qualifying criteria), family friendly policies and plenty of opportunities for training and career progression. The role will offer the flexibility to have a balance between home working and our new offices in Alconbury. 

For an informal discussion about the role contact Sara Anderson, Strategic Asset Manager, at sara.anderson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

  • Flexible working
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package
  • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
  • A comprehensive pension scheme.
  • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
  • Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
  • An employee recognition scheme
What will you be doing?

The Council property portfolio, valued at almost £1 bn, contains over 1000 property assets. The focus of the portfolio is to deliver a diverse range of first-class services for the people of Cambridgeshire, aligning the Council’s property assets with the strategic aims and objectives of the Council.  

You will work closely with property colleagues but also senior officers, elected Members and front-line service managers. You will need to be able to build strong and productive working relationships, facilitating and influencing to achieve the best outcomes. There will also be collaborative work with partner organisations.     

 In more detail your work will include: 

  • Delivering a new Asset Management Strategy  

  • Carrying out a review of the Council’ s property portfolio in line with the strategy and produce a property asset management plan 

  • Carrying out option appraisals, feasibility studies and service-based reviews 

  • Acting as property lead on collaborative internal and external projects.  

Please see full Job Description and Personal Specification for more details.

About you

You should have degree level education in a relevant property related discipline, experience in the property industry, and ideally experience of estate management with an interest in emerging issues such as Net Zero. 

Please see full Job Description and Personal Specification for more details.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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