Job Description

This role is your opportunity to lead, manage and control the estates management function across all investment property across the city of Salford. You can take your leadership career to the next level by helping to bring our vision of 'A fairer, greener and healthier Salford' into reality

Make your mark on the future of Salford

Salford has much to celebrate as a city from new homes and employment opportunities to its vibrant cultural scene. Yet there is still huge potential to build on past successes and find new and innovative ways to improve residents' lives.


Crucially, the city is on a journey of economic transformation, empowered by the Council and our key partners. We want you to be a driving force behind the Council's performance by ensuring we get optimal use of our property portfolio and achieve key financial targets.

The role

We want you to lead, develop and deliver a first-class, Council-wide property management service delivering an effective and responsive service for the Council's investment estate. To succeed in the role, you will:

Lead and manage the property management and property information teams, to deliver an effective and responsive service for the Council's investment Estate, which is legally compliant and efficient, and maximises returns. To plan, develop, lead and deliver activities and services to facilitate effective business operations; develop and maintain assets and deliver customer needs. To manage and control the estates management function across all investment property on behalf of the Council, ensuring effective business relationships are established and maintained with customers, partners, contractors and other third parties. Maintain and ensure that Council's investment property trades as a profitable business unit, clearly focused against customer need and contributing added value to the Council. Lead high performing teams that provide a first-class service across the council's property estate, with clear, ambitious and structured development plans to ensure ongoing improvement in capability. Alongside the Head of Strategic Asset Management develop and deliver Business Plans which establishes a firm basis for sustained growth and profitability. Put into place appropriate methods for benchmarking performance against relevant industry comparators, identify and deliver "best practice" (where appropriate) and lead the creation of a business culture driven by performance against objectives and targets that provides for proper financial management and the objective measurement of post activity audit and evaluation. Lead and deliver a first-class estates management service across the council linked to clearly identified customer needs which is capable, in time, of competing successfully in the open market for the supply of property-related services. Lead the performance management of the investment/strategic assets to ensure that key financial targets are met and that service partners deliver against challenging SLAs and KPIs. To lead, motivate and develop all employees within the team, ensuring a flexible and efficient approach to the management, delivery and administration of estates services is maintained, ensuring that the team are fully conversant with their statutory responsibilities. Manage and control the non-operational property estate to ensure that it is fit for purpose and meets the needs of the council. Responsible for overseeing the delivery of the Asset valuation programme. Ensuring we have accurate property intelligence for budgeting, monitoring and forecasting purposes. Implement strategic asset management initiatives to enhance property values through refurbishments, redevelopment, lease negotiations, and CAPEX projects.

About you

RICS qualified or equivalent, with relevant experience as a senior level property surveyor. Key influencer in leading and managing a successful property management, or similar, property/estates service. Able to motivate, engage and develop people to deliver shared outcomes. Excellent communicator skills at all levels, both internally and with our external customers and contractors. Strategic thinker when identifying and delivering solutions and outcomes. An effective stakeholder manager and collaborator with colleagues and external partners. Optimistic and ambitious for Salford, its people and the transformation of public services. A role model for our leadership behaviours and values: Pride, Passion, People, Personal responsibility.

What we offer

Best Place to Work 2024

Salford City Council was crowned the 'Best Place to Work' at the prestigious Local Government Chronicle Workforce Awards in November 2024.


The award-winning presentation "This is our Salford!" beautifully encapsulated the pride, passion and personality that the people who work for the council have in their DNA which drives them to serve and support our communities, delivering a wide variety of services to the residents of Salford.

Additional Benefits

The competitive salary and benefits package reflects the importance of the role. Offering flexible hybrid working and being part of a supportive senior leadership team you will have the opportunity to thrive in this influential role. In addition, we put a strong focus on leadership development from internal Masterclasses and eLearning to external accreditations and qualifications.

Qualifications

You will be expected to be technically qualified to degree level and be professionally qualified from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors or equivalent with an extensive practical application of knowledge post professional qualification.


If you would like to discuss or have any questions, please contact joanne.ivison@salford.gov.uk

Please apply with your CV and supporting statement demonstrating how you meet key requirements of the role and what you personally bring. Please refer to the role profile to create your supporting statement.

We will not be accepting candidates who require a sponsorship for this position.

Want to know more about Salford?

As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this.


Find out about our city as a place to live, work & grow, and learn more about the amazing work we are doing. You'll also find out about the wealth of benefits we have to offer you here!

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ervice commitment

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