Shape the future of our property portfolio and make a lasting impact on communities across North Northamptonshire.

We are looking for a motivated and knowledgeable Property Estate Surveyor to join our Asset Management team. You will play a key role in managing and enhancing the Council's commercial investment portfolio, ensuring income generation, protecting asset value and supporting the effective use of our property assets. Working closely with the Principal Surveyor and wider Asset Management team, you will deliver a varied caseload of professional estate management work, providing expert landlord and tenant advice while building strong relationships with tenants, colleagues and external partners. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a qualified surveyor, or someone working towards professional qualification, to further develop their career within a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering value for its communities.

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

As a Commercial Property Estate Surveyor you will be responsible for:

• Managing a varied portfolio of commercial property and estate management matters.
• Undertaking rent reviews, lease renewals and licence negotiations using appropriate valuation methodologies.
• Managing lease assignments, easements, wayleaves and other landlord and tenant transactions through to completion.
• Providing technical advice and guidance on commercial leasehold matters and estate management best practice.
• Supporting asset valuation programmes through the maintenance and provision of property information and site inspections.
• Liaising with tenants, agents, solicitors, valuers and other professional advisers to achieve successful outcomes.
• Assisting with the preparation of sites for marketing and coordinating external valuation and agency instructions.
• Contributing to reports, briefing notes and recommendations to support decision-making across the Council.
• Supporting trainee surveyors and sharing professional knowledge across the team.
• Working collaboratively with internal departments and external stakeholders to deliver corporate and property objectives.
• Supporting initiatives that contribute towards the Council's Carbon Neutral 2030 ambitions.

The requirements for this role are outlined in the attached person specification and will be part of any selection process.  Your application supporting statement must clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable requirements for this role as outlined in the person specification.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (or equivalent experience) with evidence of continuing professional development in property, surveying, or a similar discipline
• Property inspection including basic building pathology Landlord and Tenant experience including lease renewals, rent reviews, assignments, VOA awareness, lettings, licences to alter, assignment and changes of use, purchase and sale of land and property.

  Knowledge and understanding of effective, efficient, and economic use of property and accommodation.

• Demonstrable ability to write clear, concise, and accurate reports, letters, and emails appropriate to the audience.

• Evidence of IT literacy including a sound knowledge of tasks, systems, databases etc.

• Proven ability to manage a range of conflicting work demands and pressures.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders (internal and external), across all levels; and write clear and concise management reports.

• Diplomacy – managing different understandings / expectations.

• Presenting information to a range of audiences

• Developing articulate and evidenced based arguments

• Developing high quality documents i.e. business cases, management reports etc

• Proven experience working within a total team environment

• A driving licence and use of a vehicle

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.  

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)