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Principal Property Surveyor - Commercial Property

Posting date:	09 July 2024
Salary:	£25.66 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 August 2024
Location:	CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1BY
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Cambridge 5251619

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Interim Principal Property Surveyor - Commercial Property

Reference no: Cambridge 5251619

Pay rate: up to £25.66 per hour PAYE depending on experience

Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 6-7 months

City: CAMBRIDGE

Hybrid working

Pro-actively manage and undertake general asset management and valuations of the Council’s land and property holdings, including the commercial investment and corporate portfolios. Drive the performance of the Council’s commercial investment portfolio to maximise income, capital, redevelopment and investment opportunities. Ensure that the Council’s commercial investment portfolio is well managed, maintained and competitive in the market.

Key Responsibilities:

Day-to-day estate management of the Council’s commercial land and property portfolio including developing, reviewing and implementing asset management plans and marketing strategies for properties within the commercial portfolio.
Provision of general practice surveying property advice to Directors, Councillors and other Council departments as required.
Undertaking professional work in connection with the management of the Council’s commercial and corporate portfolio including negotiating new lettings, lease renewals, rent reviews, lease restructuring, deeds of variation and dilapidation claims. Ensure that reviews and renewals are dealt with in a timely manner and in accordance with the performance standards/requirements.
Acquisition and disposal of land and property as required or in accordance with asset management plans including negotiations in respect of compulsory purchase and compensation claims.
Ensure that the commercial property portfolio is properly repaired and maintained in accordance with contractual commitments and good asset management. To liaise with Estates & Facilities to ensure that they have all properties within the portfolio included in relevant corporate contracts managed by them in relation to repair, maintenance, statutory servicing and compliance testing required and advised as necessary by Estates & Facilities.
Oversee inspection, survey and preparation of reports, valuations and plans of Council houses and flats under the 1985 Housing Right-to-Buy provisions, including appeals submissions to the DV and Equity Share transactions as may be required.
Carrying out valuations and appraisals of the Council’s commercial and corporate portfolios and on behalf of other Council Departments as required.
Attend and present reports at Committee and other meetings as may be required related to this role. Deputise for the Chief Property Surveyor when required or in their absence.
Maintaining and keeping updated property and valuation records as required, reflecting professional best practice, and specifically maintaining the Council’s property management database and case management system up to date at all times.
Contribute to the establishment, review and implementation of procedures and performance standards for the Council’s property portfolio including property performance, condition and customer satisfaction. Monitoring and reporting in accordance with these procedures and performance standards as required.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

Cognate Degree/Diploma (or Post Graduate Diploma) recognised by RICS and current MRICS qualification or comparable
Other qualifications which may be of use to the section eg: in management, valuations, mapping software, marketing, business studies, planning - desirable
Hold a current driving licence or ability to travel between sites

Knowledge:

Knowledge of estate management and valuation procedures and performance standards - desirable
Knowledge of Cambridge - desirable
Some knowledge of project working - desirable

Experience:

Post qualification work experience with a professional firm of surveyors or Local Authority property department or company property department
Experience of: asset/development management; property investment; feasibility, valuation, acquisition and disposals; managing industrial, office, retail and long leasehold properties; compiling computer reports from databases - desirable
Supervisory experience - desirable
Use of property management databases/software and standard PC applications

Skills & Abilities:

Good verbal and written skills, numerate and use of Microsoft Word and Excel. Spreadsheet capability and familiar with property management databases
Problem solving skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to organise and prioritise workloads
Ability to manage and develop staff

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Job Ref: Cambridge 5251619


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.