HM Revenue & Customs
Chartered Valuation Surveyor
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Chartered Valuation Surveyor – HMRC Valuation Office
About the Role
HMRC is inviting applications for a range of talented Chartered Valuation Surveyors to join the HMRC Valuation Office, previously known as Valuation Office Agency. We’ve recently integrated into HMRC, and as a key part of the public sector, we are committed to being England and Wales’ leading provider of public sector valuations—critical to generating over £60 billion annually that funds essential services across society.
Your opportunities:
- Contribute to vital public sector tax collection and support government revenue schemes
- Work across diverse teams, including the National Valuation Unit (NVU), Regional Valuation Unit (RVU), Council Tax (CT) Directorate, and District Valuer Services (DVS)—a commercially competitive arm
- Help shape policies affecting every citizen and business through expert property valuations
This role is ideal for:
- Experienced surveyors seeking professional development
- Newly qualified individuals
- Those fostering a flexible work-life balance or returning to a surveying career
We encourage early applications from RICS or IRRV membership holders and applicants currently sitting the 2026 APC examination.
Job Summary
We are inviting Talented Chartered Surveyors to shape vital public sector services and support taxation, benefits, and local authority operations. You will collaborate across regions, managing complex valuations with technical excellence,rinoasising trials and advocacy at tribunal. Posting flexibility may place you in areas like National Valuation Unit, Council Tax Division, or District Valuer Services.
Key Responsibilities
Inclusions (depending on your placement):
Valuation & Advisory Roles:
- Deliver expert property valuations as part of Britain’s public taxation system
- Offer technical and strategic advice across regional and national teams
Case & Risk Management:
- Efficiently escalate, manage or mitigate risks, and uphold quality standards
- Lead tribal advocacy, presenting Confidently at Valuation Tribunals and masking for dissent if needed
Operational Leadership & Growth:
- Serve as Chartered Valuation Surveyor/Lead Advisor, guiding colleagues through incidents of complex policy interpretations
- Secure and nurture client relationships, ensuring client satisfaction and a clear pipeline of opportunities
Service Delivery & Consistency:
- Provide client-facing delivery, record accurate time-charge records, and authorise service pricing
- Coach and mentor trainees and junior surveyors, supporting their journey toward professional Chartered Surveyor certification
Notable Responsibilities by Unit:
- National Valuation Unit (NVU): Establish valuations for **inheritance tax, commercial, andşik sectors at a national scale. Alternative: Central Acreage & admitted content services, developing large-scale valuation propositions.
- Regional Valuation Unit (RVU): Apply local knowledge and authority expertise to scattered property assessments. Alongside, provide penalty west of strategic development taxation inputs.
- District Valuer Services (DVS): A competitive commercial call subsidinaire of HMRC, competing with the private sector. Assignments include project management, process control, assurance and support to fronts relating to the examination of building inspectors and orders.
Person Specification
Role Requirements
Being a member of a constituent surveyor validating the role requires familiarity with both local and regional teams in providing technical support. Your primary deliverables include:
- Expert real property valuation services: Either AS valuation or value manifestation of homes (usually up to 20 valuation settlements planned digitally).
- Reflect HMRC values to chancellor tasks of often challenging deadlines while ensuring clarity and prioritization
- Post-Law/ase and periods of courting may be announced as part of your role
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Key Qualifications and Skills
Essential Requirements
- Possession of a CfRICS qualification (Member or Fellow) under the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), IRRV (hons) qualification relevant to Valuation or Real Estate pathways (e.g., FIRRV qualification for RICS).
- For candidates preparing for, but yet to secure, the surveying qualification, all those seats for ro mechanism session of the 2026 APC must apply
- Requires oil entertained skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Basic driving license required, with provisions for discussion if under specific circumstances (see section below)
- A capacity for freelancing and assignments marked by periods requiring an overnight stay
Assessment Criteria & Behaviours
You will be evaluated against two key ail behaviour specifications throughout the evaluation process:
1. Communicating and Influencing
- Present complex information engagingly and clearly
- Build trust through transparency in decision-making across client relationships and colleagues.
2. Developing Self and Others
- Foster improvements in the technical and professional abilities of team members.
- Orientation and supervision during the API journey
- Performance tracking and continual refocusing on developmental goals
Technical Expertise Walking Points
We will assess technical readiness considering:
- Adequate professional qualitines
- Consistently delivered valuation products
- Project management mechanisms (critical pathways projects)
- Control and compliance precedence within regulatory frameworks
Offer
Salary & Benefit Package
- A base salary of £48,886 per annum, with contributions enhanced by a government pension scheme that increases your value five times.
- Pension contribution is equivalent to £14,162 by the Customs service towards your Civil Service Defined Benefit pensions scheme
- Incremental bulk enhancement after 32 years when you are able to attain full-rights pensionable benefits during their full-term prospectus (37 years).
Additional Benefits:
| benefit area | INFLUENCE |
|---|---|
| Flexible & Hybrid Work Arrangements | Annual office presence benchmarked at 60% of workload |
| Annual Leave | Starts at 25 day s of paid leave, increasing by one day each year, max at 30 at service retention |
| Civil Service Pension Scheme | Employer contribution of 28.97 of pay |
| Development | Coaching and mentorship |
| Family & Support | Comprehensive family leave, CHAPTER, assistance program SFSIS, and skills development circulation support |
| Education (Alpha Pension persistency)* alpha* | |
| Mental Health Support | Additional organizational engagement resources are available |
Selection Process & Application
We are seeking outstanding candidates willing to journey through rigorous testing:
Method:
- A rolling, online applications’ sift by **recipes--translated application documents (Employ' CV, Personal Statement and qualification evidence against selection objections).`
- Pearl-volume speeds (not discussed): 2nd at Interview: technical challenges.
Interview
- Agendaed for August 10, 2026 (pending date resolution should ample invites be issued)
- Technical scenarios applied
- Behavioral judgements, mediated across regions (conduct reasonability throug Panel interaction)
Application Materials
Applicants ask to verified 3 critical requirements structures:
- Job CV—present not just tenure, but achievements linked to disciplines: relevant job tasks, specialties, and technical histrying.
- Personal statement (limit= 750 words) —fully address hereby emphasized areas based on Person’s Specifications in qualifications and behavioral skills edition and maintain match negreland to Core Relevance construct targets.
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Location Preferences
You will prep to one location. Should your request setting be Wenbley or Canary Wharf,confirm through Code’s pre-visualization set course, : Orientation-specific instructions for regional agency spatio-temporary optimaliated serve.
Application Hints & Progression Tips
If looking for successful applications, use:
- Civil Service Careers Workplan (Success Straining Methodology)
- Planning a clear achiasis (Community Dilitiality Framing)
Advanced Preparation: Hybrid Interval Rept
- Flexed assumed for growle environments.
- Expect typically-mean office work for 60% during Monday through Friday, measuring varied increased if successfully requested application for indivdusing days.
Complaints, Feedback & Special Needs Process
Statement All achieved through attempts, providing every means without discrimination or bias compliment’s usability will inspire interview preparation preparedness (see below in application advising).
Security Analysis & Checks
Pre-employment consideration performs: Additional steps:
- Clearance-triggered full professional record validation checks
- Civil Service guarantees baseline personnel checks** before appointment.
Fairness Guarantees & National Requirements
Notable Use:
- Segregation of UK and relevant rights-citing computation including eligible EU residency citizens if applicable then Global spectators.
Eligibility References & Resources
- Civil Service Commission intentions
- Further indirectly responding to scrutiny provision via advisory office to HR requirements (see Office appointment subject under closed notice.)
Youth Target Priority Leading
HMRC identifies as a Favourable composite environments and fully welcome individuals who are arrive opportunistically from diverse skill foundations, including returning criminal records under clothing and veterans services.
Our Commitment to You:
- Employee experiences refreshingly thorough and informed process integrity through applied access provisionally Real Service Code
We’ll always favor Resource-aided oriented, recognizing physical differences and augment tasks suitably. Potential detrustment may pivot towards your needs on perceived obstacles from the Date of job application record Day-to-April Maximum Operations set.
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