Land Acquisition Surveyor
On-months contract (Part time role only 3 days a week)
Rotherham
About the role
To support the property team, within Strategic Asset Management, providing professional property advice to the council on landlord and tenant, lease management, asset reviews and acquisition and disposal opportunities delivering outputs for the agreed strategies.
To be a key participant in asset optimisation as part of the ongoing asset rationalisation and review, developing relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, whilst building and shaping a professional property team.
Responsibilities
- Provide valuation, estates management and surveying advice to all departments and promote the corporate use of the property assets across the Council.
- Advise on all property issues and manage higher level projects at an appropriate a level.
- Provide supervision and support to projects for the negotiation of the acquisition and disposal of all types of land and property assets and interests.
- Undertake statutory valuations subject to the sign off and approval by an MRICS and Registered Status Valuer to support the Council's accountancy functions.
- Provide advice and produce reports for Council representatives and clients acting as the Councils representative. Liaise with other Departments/Sections in all aspects of valuation, estates management and surveying work.
- Deal with enquiries from all departments on valuation, estate management and surveying work.
- Provide technical and professional advice to the service and its customers
- Lead/facilitate other staff to ensure effective service delivery and delivery of projects, including training, planning and allocating work, checking work is done to time and quality and carrying out on-job training
- Carry out research, monitoring of data and reviews of local and national policy and best practice
- Monitor the performance of the service ensuring that performance and quality standards are maintained in line with the service's performance management framework and service and corporate plan objectives
- Produce action plans and work programmes and assist in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and marketing strategies
Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, regulatory and performance standards and best practice in this area
- Managing and developing people within a service delivery organisation, including carrying out performance and development reviews and recruitment and selection
- Delivering customer services in a fast paced and high volume working environment
- Experience of maintaining, developing and communicating with multiple and varied internal and external stakeholders
- Practical knowledge of financial procedures e.g. procurement/budget monitoring
If interested in the role, please contact me at moeez.muhammed@servicecare.org.uk
