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AN ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCE OF £4,750 IS OFFERED FOR THIS ROLE, INCREASING THE SALARY TO £46,367 PRO RATA. Please read the Additional Information pack for details about this allowance payment and role.
If you’re part of the Environment Agency, you’re part of the solution. Working with us means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of national importance. We’re based across England, and our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries and conservation.
As an Estates Surveyor, you’ll be involved in a wide variety of surveying work, providing professional property expertise across all aspects of our business. Applying your skills as a surveyor, you’ll work collaboratively within project teams helping to deliver a nationwide £5.4 billion programme of capital flood defence work that will protect 336,000 properties. You’ll be involved at all stages of project delivery from feasibility through to completion. Your expertise will also be applied to the management of a diverse land and property portfolio, including commercial and rural property management, valuation and dealing with landlord and tenant issues.
As a confident negotiator, you’ll represent our interests with a broad customer and client base. With an up-to-date knowledge of current legislation and best practice, you’ll provide strong technical guidance and support to other members of your team. We’ll also support you to develop both personally and professionally.
Responding to incidents is an important part of what we do, and with this in mind you’ll have an incident role and should be ready to make yourself available to respond or provide business continuity support.
The team
The Estates Team sits within the larger Corporate & National Services directorate. You can read more about the directorate in the Additional Information pack.
The Estates service extends to 130 people, offering professional support for Environment Agency land, property, compensation and valuation matters. We are core to the delivery of the Agency's £5.2 billion capital programme to better protect 336,000 homes.
Experience/skills required
Please read the Additional Information pack for the full essential and desirable criteria required for this role. Below states the qualifications/memberships and experience required:
• You will hold one of the following qualifications/memberships:
o you'll be a fellow of the CAAV (FAAV)
o qualified as a chartered surveyor (MRICS/FRICS) ideally in Land and Resources, Commercial or Rural. However, we would consider other pathways, if you feel the pathway you have followed would be suitable for this role. Please note. We will accept your application if you have submitted your APC and expect to pass within the next three months.
• full and valid driving licence
• experience of estate management, acquisition and disposal work in the urban and/or rural environment and experience within land rights acquisition
• be able to demonstrate that you can draw on your knowledge and experience to advise on a range of property matter and projects