Assistant Surveyor

Role Responsibility

Are you a driven and ambitious individual with a passion for property? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Real Estate Management Team and make a difference in Kent’s community?

Kent County Council (KCC) is seeking Assistant Surveyors to join our Infrastructure Real Estate team. As an Assistant Surveyor, you will provide support to Surveyors on a range of portfolio projects, ensuring all necessary actions are taken to maximise value, minimise operational costs/liabilities, and promote efficient use of assets.

You will be a self-motivated individual who wants to make a difference to the portfolios and assets your team are responsible for. These are solution focused roles that will be rewarding for the right individual who would like to deliver a better public estate for KCC and its residents as they develop their own career in the Surveying profession.

We have vacancies across both our Estates and Disposals & Investment team for Assistant Surveyors based in the County of Kent with access to beautiful countryside, coastal destinations, historic towns and villages.

What you'll do:

• Support the delivery of proactive property advice and guidance to KCC and its partners.
• Maximise value, minimise operational costs/liabilities, and promote efficient use of assets.
• Implement activity and operating policies to ensure that portfolios of land and property are managed effectively.
• Deliver a programme of property estate deliverables in accordance with KCC’s Strategic objectives, including Framing Kent’s Future
• Undertake your own and support specific projects, researching and providing advice and information on a range of issues.
• Ensuring value for money through driving externally procured property consultancy advice as necessary.

What you'll need:

• A Level 3 qualification or equivalent or relevant first level professional qualification
• Experience of working in a similar environment, with a range of occupied and unoccupied property
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written
• Ability to think laterally with a problem solving approach.
• Knowledge of working in a property environment with a portfolio
• Good ICT skills.

Remuneration:

Working for the Infrastructure Real Estate Team at KCC offers lots of benefits:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible and home working. Whilst you will be required to attend the office, meetings, and site visits, we operate flexible hours and support working from home by arrangement with your manager.
• Generous leave entitlement (29 days on appointment) and flexitime leave opportunity.
• An excellent local Government contributory pension scheme.
• Relocation assistance scheme (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Kent Rewards – A scheme where employees have opportunities to obtain goods and services at a discount.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we would welcome your application.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

For more information on the roles and working for KCC, please see: https://jobs.kent.gov.uk/were-recruiting/surveyors

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact:

Mark.Cheverton@kent.gov.uk

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.