DIO – Assistant Head of Estates – Land Management Services
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £59,690 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | PO1 3NH, PL2 2BG, GU15 4PQ, SP11 8HJ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406635 |
Summary
Main Responsibilities
The Assistant Head of Estates role will lead, oversee and manage a wide range of programmes and services alongside the provision of subject matter expert advice and communications with all key stakeholders.
The work is extremely varied and wide ranging, but key activities for the role include:
Provision of professional property advice.
Leading, delivering and programme management for the delivery of agreed Estate’s programme.
Lead Estates stakeholder engagement activities with local authorities and other key stakeholders and customers.
Horizon scanning, relationship building and policy alignment with related initiatives across MOD & government.
Leading on the professional development of property professionals within the region and being accountable for ensuring policy, strategy and operating procedures are consistently applied across the whole estate within the region.
Location
The role will be based from either the Sandhurst, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Andover office and the successful candidate will be expected to regularly attend their chosen office location and will involve weekly attendance to the office for face-to-face meetings and collaboration. The role will involve regular travel to sites within their region and occasionally UK wide for meetings and/or site inspections. Please confirm your location on your application form.
If travelling outside your base location for duty reasons, you will have access to flights, hire cars, rail tickets and overnight accommodation. You can also claim 45 pence per mile should you choose to use your own vehicle for business travel.
Travel may be required to carry out site visits where you may go on MOD Establishments, residential estates, building sites, agricultural land, training areas and firing ranges etc.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
DIO Business Area – Estates
The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha). This is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas.
Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) supporting infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safeguard, and dispose of Defence real estate. Our unique customer knowledge and insight of the Defence Estate enables our in-house team of property professionals to provide in-depth advice to our Military customers.
The Teams
Land Management Services (LMS) are an in-house consultancy team providing a full range of surveying and estate management services to the MOD. These include lettings, acquisition of leases, lease management, Landlord & Tenant (MOD both as Landlord - lettings & Tenant - hirings), rent reviews, lease renewals/expiries and general property related advice to protect MOD interests. LMS also undertake a wide range of stakeholder engagement with local authorities, other government departments and special interest groups as well as providing support and subject matter expert (SME) advice for parliamentary business.
The Assistant Head of Estates role will lead, oversee and manage a wide range of programmes and services alongside the provision of subject matter expert advice and communications with all key stakeholders.
The work is extremely varied and wide ranging, but key activities for the role include:
Provision of professional property advice.
Leading, delivering and programme management for the delivery of agreed Estate’s programme.
Lead Estates stakeholder engagement activities with local authorities and other key stakeholders and customers.
Horizon scanning, relationship building and policy alignment with related initiatives across MOD & government.
Leading on the professional development of property professionals within the region and being accountable for ensuring policy, strategy and operating procedures are consistently applied across the whole estate within the region.
Location
The role will be based from either the Sandhurst, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Andover office and the successful candidate will be expected to regularly attend their chosen office location and will involve weekly attendance to the office for face-to-face meetings and collaboration. The role will involve regular travel to sites within their region and occasionally UK wide for meetings and/or site inspections. Please confirm your location on your application form.
If travelling outside your base location for duty reasons, you will have access to flights, hire cars, rail tickets and overnight accommodation. You can also claim 45 pence per mile should you choose to use your own vehicle for business travel.
Travel may be required to carry out site visits where you may go on MOD Establishments, residential estates, building sites, agricultural land, training areas and firing ranges etc.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
DIO Business Area – Estates
The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha). This is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas.
Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) supporting infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safeguard, and dispose of Defence real estate. Our unique customer knowledge and insight of the Defence Estate enables our in-house team of property professionals to provide in-depth advice to our Military customers.
The Teams
Land Management Services (LMS) are an in-house consultancy team providing a full range of surveying and estate management services to the MOD. These include lettings, acquisition of leases, lease management, Landlord & Tenant (MOD both as Landlord - lettings & Tenant - hirings), rent reviews, lease renewals/expiries and general property related advice to protect MOD interests. LMS also undertake a wide range of stakeholder engagement with local authorities, other government departments and special interest groups as well as providing support and subject matter expert (SME) advice for parliamentary business.