Senior Options Appraisal Surveyor

Senior Options Appraisal Surveyor

Birmingham, B37 7YN (Hybrid)

£44,606 - £50,518

Basis: Full Time

Work pattern: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week

Type: Permanent

This is a great opportunity for you to join one of the UKs most trusted social housing providers.

You will be joining them at an exciting time as we have just undertaken a large programme of home condition surveys which will inform their 30 year plan. They have also been awarded grant funding to retrofit over 2,200 properties over the next two years.

As Senior Options Surveyor working alongside the Head of Assets and Sustainability reporting to the Data Manager you will be responsible for developing the Options Appraisal programme and the setting of targets for poorly performing stock.

As well as a generous benefits package, we enable all Citizens to achieve the best possible balance between work and personal life and provide opportunities for everyone to reach their full potential.

In housing you can make a real difference, the role of Senior Options Appraisal Surveyor will involve:

• Coordinating all activities to maintain, update and verify the Asset Performance Evaluation (APE) model to ensure they can review all assets appropriately, using existing data,

• Managing the stock condition surveying workstream and creating flexible capacity to deliver stock condition surveys at scale (internally or externally sourced).

• Assisting with the collection, validation, and analysis of stock condition data necessary to implement their asset management strategy.

• Leading in the appraisal of assets to provide recommendations and solutions for future use, considering retain, refurbish, re-purpose and release of assets in the portfolio.

• Critically analysing assets to support the Business and Asset Management Strategies,

• Monitoring the performance of the decision outcomes, including lessons learnt.

• Reviewing housing and property-related data, including reactive and planned budgets, void information as well as other financial and nonfinancial performance measures to assess their stock.

• Utilising tools to provide Net Present Value (NPV) calculations and ability to model scenarios, identify poor performing assets and develop options for investment / divestment.

• Knowledge of various income streams / product types, including social rent, Care & Support including a basic knowledge of grant related income to be able to make appropriate re-p recommendations, including development opportunities.

• Preparing and delivering reports on outcomes from stock appraisals to a variety of stakeholders including the Senior Leadership Team, Executive Leadership Team and Board.

• Building great relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external, promoting collaborative and positive working processes and a culture of customer service excellence.

As Senior Options Appraisal Surveyor we need you to have:

• HND in Construction and Property or a building topic-based Degree or other property focussed industry recognised qualification or experience in a related area.

• Excellent understanding of scheme / property appraisal techniques.

• Excellent data analysis skills, used to exporting and manipulating information, preparing, and issuing reports to SLT, ELT and Board

• Experience of taking a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed, and reported and where appropriated, escalated.

• Ability to respond constructively to conflicting demands and pressures, and changes in priority or interruptions from colleagues, stakeholder and customers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of and commitment to good customer care and customer focused service delivery

• Full UK driving licence to enable you to travel across areas where Citizen operates.

Their people are everything and they offer:

• Opportunities for salary progression, which is directly linked to performance reviews

• Live work better scheme which actively encourages work-life balance

• Annual leave starts at 25 days per year, increasing with length of service

• Enhanced family leave

• Company Pension they match up to 10%

• If part of the pension scheme you are entitled to Life cover (three times your annual salary)

• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)

• EAP a 24/7 service which gives free, confidential advice and support on a range of issues including telephone counselling

• Medicash scheme -which includes GP Access, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!

• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)

• Recognition through our Employee Excellence Awards

• Representation opportunities on our Staff Consultative Forum

• Access to their Wellbeing platform

• Employee Excellence Awards (winners receive extra days annual leave that year)

• Occupational Health

• They believe everyone has something to give and encourage everyone to be the best they can be to reach their full potential with extensive learning and development opportunities and Study Leave

This post is subject to a Basic DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

Closing date: 12th January 2024

Interview date: To be arranged

Please note they will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time. They reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.