Description
This is a new role in the organisation, created to bring greater strategic and operational oversight to the Estates function – working across the Council’s commercial property portfolio and the corporate estate.
A strategic asset review is already underway, and you will have the opportunity to develop this work into a fully developed asset management strategy that maximises the use of council properties and sites in terms of commercial return and establishing a more efficient and modern council estate.
You’ll bring clear and focused leadership to a small team, shaping a more systematic approach to estate management and ensuring that active performance management creates opportunity for progression and builds capacity and expertise from within. Current and accurate data will be a vital tool in demonstrating and reporting on impact. Commercial awareness and financial rigour will be fundamental to maximising returns from our property portfolio – but you should also be attuned to the social and community benefits that will be key to decision-making around how we use our assets.
It’s essential that you can work with your peers across the Council too – identifying how your team’s work can support and influence in other areas such as regeneration, commercial opportunities and other revenue collection services.
We expect that you hold a relevant professional qualification (RICS) and that you already have experience of strategic oversight of a commercial portfolio, alongside people and resource management responsibilities.
Salary: GBP 91,977 - 95,592 per year