Seven Resourcing are looking for a Senior Estates Manager to work on an interim basis initially for 6 Months with Gloucestershire County Council.
This role is paying £411 a day PAYE or £525 a day via an Umbrella company.
37 Hours a week
You will be required to attend the office on occasions and travel county-wide.
The Job-
* Provide comprehensive property advice to the Council’s Service Directorates and individual officers at all levels.
* Meet the requirements of the Council’s Corporate Asset Management Plans
* Achieve effective and pro-active management of the Council’s land and property interests.
* Maximizing the Council’s capital and revenue receipts by the provision of effective and proactive management of the Council’s land and buildings. This will include capital payments from land sales, annual rent increases on review, new rental income from lease grants, capital, or annual income from other forms of property agreements. This will relate to all types of property such as, offices, schools, depots, car parks, and surplus land.
* The acquisition of land and buildings to support a range of legislative or Council or Service Directorate plans or objectives.
* Provide support to the Strategic Property Manager (Estates) in developing and implementing relevant property related policies, strategies, and team plans.
* Provide professional property advice and recommendations to be relied upon by service directorates, council officers and Members of the Council on a wide range of property matters including sales, purchase, leases, licences, easements, valuations, land acquisition, cost estimates, boundary disputes, Landlord and Tenant.
* Ability to assimilate wide ranging areas of professional property knowledge and experience, pro-actively provide solutions to problems and weigh up alternatives will be an essential part of the advice and decision-making process.
* Provision of professional management of the Council’s property estate. This will require the ability to coordinate and direct between other officers of the Council, communication with tenants, problem, and dispute resolution with tenants, responding to queries and requests from members of the public and other organizations relating to the Council’s land holdings.
* Obtain negotiated agreement with equivalent professionals and private individuals/outside bodies relating to a wide range of property transactions to achieve decisions of the Council and meet the needs of its service directorates.
* To instruct/advise and consult with the Council’s solicitors on various forms of property related contractual documents relating to sale / purchase / letting of land etc and to prepare first drafts of certain types of documents e.g., licences/concessions etc. A high level of property related technical ability, interpretive and innovative problem-solving skill, together with professional knowledge is required to ensure the documentation meets the Council’s objective and the negotiated agreement.
* Represent the Council at meetings with outside bodies including Town and Parish Council’s, tenants, charities, schools, private individuals, corporate solicitors, and other professional advisers to negotiate advantageous property agreements on behalf of the Council
Applicant Requirement-
* Qualified and practicing member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with significant post qualification experience.
* Degree/ Diploma or other appropriate comparable qualification in a property related discipline/RICS accredited.
* Experience gained post qualification in either a public or private sector.
* Relevant property related statutes and professional standards including Landlord and Tenant Acts / Law of Property Acts / Town and Country Planning acts / RICS and International valuation standards.
* Understanding of a high-quality customer service and business partnering approach, in a large multidisciplinary organisation.
* Must have a drivers license.