31735 - Assistant Deed Technician, Estates Technical Team
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,096 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | Fixed Term Up to 31 March 2026 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 31735 |
Summary
We’re fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns, including compressed hours.
As a Deed Technician in Estates, you’ll be part of a small team working on the Digitising Estates Legal documents and Deeds, helping bring it to completion and building on previous years of the project.
The focus of the work is reviewing, cataloguing and preparing Deed Packets for scanning by an external third party. This requires an understanding of the different types of documents stored within a Deed Packet and following an agreed process on how they will be recorded and prepared.
Our Deeds are important legal and often unique documents requiring careful handling, and an attention to detail to be able to resolve and match documents to our register, accurately recording key details to support their digitisation.
This role also requires good customer service with Estates Surveyors and Project Support Officers to retrieve and send digital or original copies of the Deeds whilst they are being processed.
The ideal candidate will need to have a god basic understanding of legal documents, organisation and customer service skills, the ability to problem solve as an individual or part of a team, maintain a high level of attention to detail and information recording.
Being part of our Team, you’ll need to be a self-starter keen to join a group of team players who have a desire to improve how we deliver our work and make a difference to improve the environment.
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 and National Services directorate. You can read more about the directorate in the Additional Information pack.
The Estates service extends to 160 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
This role focuses on supporting the Deeds Digitisation Project and supporting Estates around the Deeds documents. You’ll be expected to:
• Balance workloads to ensure tasks are achieved to deadline.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships, including internal team members.
• Have excellent attention to detail and recording of information.
• Have an aptitude for overcoming differences in process and documents.
• Be able to communicate well and effectively to different audiences, delivering requested information in an accurate and timely manner.
• Have strong organisational skills to assist with workstream plans and schedules.
• Ability to work with discretion when processing sensitive information and understanding of appropriate data management practices.
As a Deed Technician in Estates, you’ll be part of a small team working on the Digitising Estates Legal documents and Deeds, helping bring it to completion and building on previous years of the project.
The focus of the work is reviewing, cataloguing and preparing Deed Packets for scanning by an external third party. This requires an understanding of the different types of documents stored within a Deed Packet and following an agreed process on how they will be recorded and prepared.
Our Deeds are important legal and often unique documents requiring careful handling, and an attention to detail to be able to resolve and match documents to our register, accurately recording key details to support their digitisation.
This role also requires good customer service with Estates Surveyors and Project Support Officers to retrieve and send digital or original copies of the Deeds whilst they are being processed.
The ideal candidate will need to have a god basic understanding of legal documents, organisation and customer service skills, the ability to problem solve as an individual or part of a team, maintain a high level of attention to detail and information recording.
Being part of our Team, you’ll need to be a self-starter keen to join a group of team players who have a desire to improve how we deliver our work and make a difference to improve the environment.
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 and National Services directorate. You can read more about the directorate in the Additional Information pack.
The Estates service extends to 160 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
This role focuses on supporting the Deeds Digitisation Project and supporting Estates around the Deeds documents. You’ll be expected to:
• Balance workloads to ensure tasks are achieved to deadline.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships, including internal team members.
• Have excellent attention to detail and recording of information.
• Have an aptitude for overcoming differences in process and documents.
• Be able to communicate well and effectively to different audiences, delivering requested information in an accurate and timely manner.
• Have strong organisational skills to assist with workstream plans and schedules.
• Ability to work with discretion when processing sensitive information and understanding of appropriate data management practices.