These senior roles are integral to our Land & Property team which includes officers with varying degrees of experience who work on a wide variety of property related matters. Senior Land & Property Officers will be responsible for supervision and management of junior staff.

What We Offer You

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• A competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays.
• Membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements, currently attending the office at least three days a week.
• A clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities.
• A range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further.

How To Apply

Please upload your CV and complete a personal statement of no more than 500 words.

Read our guidance for further advice on completing your application.

If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact Annabel Phipps 0113 378 8305 annabel.phipps@leeds.gov.uk or Edward Rowland 0113 378 7674 edward.rowland@leeds.gov.uk. We will aim to interview suitable candidates within 4 weeks.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Please ensure you are eligible before applying.

Job Description

Job purpose

To co-ordinate and manage priority work streams and programmes within the Asset Management and Regeneration service with specific focus on the delivery of regeneration programmes for the city.

Responsibilities

The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the outcome for this post.

• To work as part of the property team and support the management of workloads in this area of work in order to deliver Value for Money services to customers in line with Council priorities ensuring that the work incorporates the council’s cultural values.
• To assist with the management and achievement of the service plan for your area so that it achieves its corporate and service objectives and outcomes.
• To coach and mentor staff within your area to assist in the achievement of the Organisational Strategy, Leeds Ambitions, and Council values and behaviours.
• To promote and deliver positive solutions to achieving equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of your service delivery focussing on equality of outcome.
• To support organisational development and continuous improvement by contributing to cross Council projects and supporting the Asset Management & Regeneration Management Team.
• To maintain effective consultation and communications with staff, service users, Councillors, trade unions, partners and other stakeholders.
• To work as part of the team for Leeds, in ways which are open, inclusive, responsive and accountable, to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external customers, other stakeholders and partners to achieve excellent outcomes for the citizens of Leeds.
• To work responsibly to ensure the safety of staff, service users and contractors in accordance with all statutory obligations and the council’s Health and Safety Policy.
• To work with elected members, service users, partners and community representatives in ways which support open, responsive and accountable government.
• To support the provision of a consultancy service to the Division on development and regeneration issues.
• To work responsibly to deliver workloads within approved budgets, to defined timescales achieving the required quality and following agreed procurement processes.
• To work flexibly as required to meet directorate and corporate priorities.

Qualifications

Degree qualification or equivalent experience and be a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Essential requirements

Candidates will only be shortlisted if they can demonstrate that they meet all the following essential requirements.

• A degree or degree level professional qualification.
• Understanding of local government / public sector and experience of achieving results in a politically sensitive environment.
• Understanding of public sector issues.
• An understanding of community issues.
• An understanding of the development process.
• Understanding of property development particularly in relation to physical regeneration.
• Understanding of Planning and Development Briefs.
• Understanding of project financing and the role of the private sector.
• Knowledge of the Council’s contract procedure rules and Standing Orders in respect of the development process.
• The knowledge of dealing with a variety of property transactions.
• To hold a relevant surveying qualification and to be a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Experience

• Senior experience managing and delivering a number of projects and initiatives in a service or operational area relevant to the area of service delivery in the remit of the post.
• Experience of working effectively with others to deliver cross sector or cross service projects.
• Experience of managing services to meet customer needs.
• Experience of co-ordinating physical development and regeneration initiatives through to implementation.
• Experience of taking a lead role in problem solving and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Experience of dealing with Member enquiries and issues.
• The experience of undertaking a wide variety of property transactions / negotiations at a high level and to provide an effective property service which can incorporate property work.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplined team / officers to deliver property related transactions using problem solving techniques and resolving conflict.
• Experience of collating, monitoring information and preparing and presenting reports on various property transactions.
• Experience of