Job Description

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Key Information
Job title: Estates Governance & Data Lead
Salary: Up to 90,000 (depending on skills & experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Contract details: Full Time
Location: Palestra, Southwark,
Application closing date: Friday 15th August @ 23:59
Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period, with a maximum of 50% of your time working from home. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Background
With 5,500+ acres - more than all 8 of London's Royal Parks combined - stretching across almost every borough, Transport for London (TfL) is one of London's largest landowners. Almost 70% of this land is covered by the transport network: roads, stations, track, and associated infrastructure.

• We have already taken several important steps to make more efficient, effective, and sustainable use of our land and property that doesn't make up the transport network, including:
• Rationalising our occupied office estate and creating attractive modern working environments
• Creating Places for London, to generate sustainable revenue
• Publishing a Corporate Environment Plan with clear ambitions around buildings decarbonisation, green infrastructure, and air quality

The TfL Land & Property Approach shows that we are committed to make best use of all of our land and property to deliver and optimise transport, financial, sustainability, colleague, and green outcomes for TfL.
Recruitment Insight Session - Monday 11th August @ 12:30
We are offering a group insight session for this role to give people who are interested a chance to learn more about it, including the team, our estate, and our vision and aspirations.
There will be a short presentation, with the opportunity to ask questions in an open forum. The venue will be Palestra, Southwark. We will offer a short tour of the building after the presentation.
If you would like to attend, please email who will book you in.
Job Purpose
This is an exciting role which will help to shape the relationship between the operating business and our Places for London colleagues, across one of the most interesting and largest estates in London.
Responsible for developing and maintaining great collaboration across the business and ensuring alignment with TFL's Strategic goals, the role will set standards, develop, refine and govern the processes and policies that are used to manage the function and its relationships and interfaces pan-TfL, with PFL and external entities.
This role will also define a robust data governance framework for the department and lead the data strategy management and reporting function in order to achieve and maintain long-term efficient usage of TfL's land and property.
Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent knowledge of good practice applied governance within a regulated business environment including an understanding of consents, approvals, finance & reporting.
• Knowledge of data and record management systems within a corporate environment, ideally related to real estate.

Desirable

• An understanding of the Estates and Property sectors, the services provided and the relationships required to underpin a successful Estate Planning function encompassing both internal and external facing commercial interests.

Skills
Essential

• Ability to act in a politically adept and commercially astute manner, to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, to resolve business conflicts as they occur and to persuasively influence complex and sensitive transactions.
• Commercial awareness to highlight and evaluate threats and opportunities inherent in diverse and complex contract arrangements.

Desirable

• Able to deliver results through collaboration across the business, consultative by nature and a team player, can work across different groups, influencing and promoting cohesiveness.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage people from diverse specialist areas from both a delivery and talent perspective. Engaging people to drive results and creating a safe, inclusive workplace.
• Ability to spot linkages and dependencies, joining up areas of overlapping work and ensuring the right knowledge is brought to projects.

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable experience of successful business case development, periodic and exceptional report management.
• Experience of building relationships with, and influencing, a range of people at all levels within and outside the organisation.

Desirable

• Demonstrable proven budget management experience including prioritising spend in a dynamic environment, risk management, whole life costing, prioritising spend and continuously improving Business efficiencies.
• Experience of creating, leading and owning a governance process in a complex public sector organisation.
• Proven experience of setting data strategy and standards.
• Previous experience of leading teams through the contract renewal process, including creating service specifications and tender evaluation is desirable.

Application Process
Pleased apply using your CV and answering the screening questions provided.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.
Benefits
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.