Estates Surveyor

What will you be doing?

As an Estate Surveyor, you will play a vital role in managing the Council’s diverse property portfolio, ensuring effective estate management and compliance with best practices. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing a caseload of estate management tasks, including rent reviews, lease negotiations, assignments, licenses, wayleaves, and easements, from negotiation through to completion.
• Conducting site visits to inspect properties for lease compliance, resolve boundary disputes, verify ownership, and take measurements in line with RICS Code of Measurement Practice.
• Maintaining business rates and utility data, supporting estate reviews, and contributing to projects.
• Providing technical advice on landlord and tenant matters, supporting payment monitoring, engaging with tenants on payment solutions
• Keeping up to date with case law and industry developments to ensure best practices in estate management.
• Assisting with the annual asset valuation programme, maintaining accurate records, and supporting site visits when needed.
• Preparing sites for letting, liaising with external advisors, requesting fee proposals
• Supporting the Council’s Carbon Neutral 2030 target by identifying and reviewing properties for potential environmental improvements.
• Collaborating with internal teams and external consultants, including legal, facilities, and agents, ensuring compliance with all regulatory processes and fostering strong relationships.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to apply your estate management expertise in a dynamic public sector environment, contributing to the efficient and sustainable management of a high-value property portfolio.

About you

We’re looking for a proactive Estate Surveyor with the skills and knowledge to support effective property management. 

The ideal candidate will have:

• A good standard of education with continuing professional development in property or surveying.
• Trainee RICS Membership or willingness to train towards accreditation.
• Experience in property inspections, landlord and tenant matters, and knowledge of VOA, lease renewals, rent reviews, lettings, and licences.
• Strong report writing and IT skills, with the ability to manage competing demands and tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting information and writing business cases.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Ability to work flexibly, both independently and as part of a team, with awareness of public sector property and equal opportunities.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career in estate management while contributing to a high-value public sector portfolio.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

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.

About us

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

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.

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.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

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