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Joining the Milton Keynes City Council's Property Team as an Estates Surveyor is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a modern, vibrant city with a reputation for innovation.
Milton Keynes is a special and unique city with parks and lakes within a few minutes’ walk of people’s homes, and a distinctive grid road system and city centre. Our older towns, villages and residential areas each have their own character and sense of community.
As a member of our dynamic team, you'll be at the forefront of managing and developing our city's diverse property portfolio and delivering our refreshed Corporate Property Strategy.
You’ll be collaborating with passionate professionals, driving efficiencies in our estate and ensuring our portfolio is fit for purpose and tenure, as well contributing to the wellbeing of our communities.
You’ll lead the Commercial and Development Business Unit which is responsible for all landlord and tenant transactions across the commercial estate, identifying development potential and levering best value from a range of leased assets.
Additionally, this post will offer a high-quality property management service to external clients, including Milton Keynes Development Partnership.
Main Responsibility
- Directly responsible for income generation across the Councils property portfolio including overseeing debt management and collection of arrears including court attendance.
- Responsible for managing a revenue budget in excess of £2M and capital spend of up to £15M.
- Ensure that all services are carried out in accordance with best practice and industry standards and health and safety legislation.
- Resolve complex property casework where interpretation, judgement and discretion are involved, delivering the best strategic outcomes for MKCC.
- Lead, advise, and direct property related programmes and/or projects, ensuring compliance with MKCC’s Contract Procedure Rules and the agreed project management approach.
- Actively seek out and implement service and systems improvements in line with best practice and financial objectives, including opportunities to deliver savings in support of MKCC operational objectives.
- Take responsibility for the performance of the Commercial and Development team.
- Assist and deputise for the Assistant Director of Property as required and assist in delivering the overall service objectives to a range of clients and to support the decision-making process.
The Ideal Candidate
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with an appropriate qualification or membership of a professional body such as RICS.
- Extensive demonstrable experience and knowledge of directing and managing property services.
- Proven excellent organisational skills with attention to detail, able to prioritise and effectively meet multiple, simultaneous deadlines.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking taking account of and identifying a range of longer-term issues opportunities and contingences.
- Ability to build excellent customer and team relationships, demonstrating a professional aptitude building confidence and trust.
- Excellent influencing, negotiating, advocacy skills, including the ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Able to lead others; motivate, enable, and inspire others to succeed utilising appropriate interpersonal styles, including leading by example.
- Demonstrable experience of managing budgets and income generation.
- For this role you are required to have a full UK driving licence and provide evidence of your vehicle insurance with business cover and use of a vehicle. If you are successful, you will be required to supply evidence of your licence prior to starting the role.
Package Description
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:
- Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years. In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
- Excellent pension – everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
- A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support and a childcare subsidy.
- Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
- Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.
Our roles are either designated ‘site based’ or ‘home based’. ‘Site based’ roles can include up to two days a week working from home whilst ‘home based’ roles are based at home four days a week. Of course, managers designate which category roles are in based on the needs of the service and the circumstances.
About The Organisation
Milton Keynes City Council is a large, modern and financially stable employer with around 2,500 people working across our eight areas. Together we provide local residents and businesses with a wide range of important round-the-clock services and aim to make our city a better place to live.
We work hard because of the demands placed on us, like protecting children from harm or preventing homelessness. However, working for the city is always rewarding and everyone has the opportunity to make a real difference.
We’re very proud of our diversity and are committed to having a workforce that reflects the community we serve. Whatever your background, you will be welcome here if you share our values of being dedicated, respectful and collaborative.
We offer great training and support and because of the size and scale of the organisation there are always new opportunities to explore when it’s time for a new role.
If you’d like to know more about how we do things and what matters to us, take a look at our short booklet What makes us Milton Keynes City Council.
