Estates Surveyor

The Role
Join our Property Team and be part of an innovative and exciting service focusing on targeting and delivering important local developments and ventures; driving revenue income growth and making lasting improvements to the borough. In your role as an Estate Surveyor within the Strategic Property Team, you will play a key part in the service, ensuring the Councils' property portfolios are future-proofed, opportunities are achieved to increase income and the estates are effectively managed to deliver the Councils' ambitions.

We are looking for a pro-active, high performing, self-motivated and organised individual who can efficiently manage their time, demonstrate initiative, and work under pressure. You will ideally have experience of dealing with a varied commercial and council operational property portfolio, undertaking negotiations and providing evidence-based valuation advice to support new lettings, with the ability to juggle priorities and manage a suite of varied property cases. The successful candidate will have strong all round communication skills to build positive working relationships within the organisation as well as with external partners, tenants, and other Council departments. The structure of local government could be changing over the next few years, and this may offer opportunities to work across a larger area. If you would like to join a team making a real difference at this exciting time, we'd love to hear from you.

About you
The ideal candidate will have an extensive working knowledge of valuation and property management, but applications are welcomed from anyone meeting the essential criteria in the person specification appended to the job description, including:

• Being a qualified Chartered Surveyor and eligible to register under the RICS Valuers Registration Scheme
• Knowledge of Valuation and Property Management, and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills

To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter via the 'Apply now' button