Head Of Service - Property & Assets

This is a Full Time, Permanent position. This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the region’s most diverse and strategically important property portfolios at Hull City Council. As Head of Estates, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the city’s land and property assets, driving investment, regeneration, income growth and public value. Working at the heart of the Property and Assets Service, you will influence major decisions, lead a high-performing team, and help deliver transformative outcomes for Hull’s residents, businesses and communities.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

The post holder is the Head of Service and professional lead for the management of the Council’s commercial land and property portfolio, managed workspace centres and development sites. They are responsible for the wide range of professional services delivery in respect of land and property, and all associated business reporting, legislative compliance, resourcing, and programme management that relate to the Council’s commercial property portfolio together with defined responsibilities that are required for the role.

The postholder is responsible for the professional teams that deliver the services across the role which includes all professionals and management functions, and provide a comprehensive and effective service to enable it to efficiently and effectively manage a commercial portfolio of land and property, and a property asset disposals programme, and 3 managed workspace centres in line with targets in the Council’s medium term financial plan, and promoting the decarbonisation and enhancing the biodiversity of the Council’s commercial land and property portfolio.

The postholder will also be responsible for managing the team that delivers major investment projects in partnership with anchor institutions and investors including Yorkshire Energy Park Freeport site and the MKM Stadium/Hull City and with the voluntary and community sector in relation to community asset transfers and strategic land asset purchases. The postholder will influence and derive maximum outcomes from policy and to ensure the service adds value to the regeneration, economic development, operation, and environment, of the City through effective and efficient delivery of strategic land and property advice and interventions. To deputise for the Director/Assistant Director of the service.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Strategy – Leads on the development and implementation of strategic plans across operational portfolios, property advice, professional estates, portfolio management and asset management services, valuation and property consultancy and statutory obligations in relation to the Council’s commercial portfolio, managed workspace centres and development land. Ensures a co-ordinated management function through the integrated operation of the service, considering income, expenditure, and value of land and property assets, service and budgetary planning.
• Customer Focus - Strong engagement with the property sector across the city to ensure delivery of programmes of work and significant projects in a timely manner whilst balancing environmental, social and community aspirations. Highly visible in the Council’s domain, speaking about land and property matters in Hull.
• Performance Management - Develops, reviews and manages a performance management framework to ensure effectiveness, to monitor and evaluate service delivery and to demonstrate outcomes and continual improvements.
• Leadership – This role is part of the senior management team and provides building and design related professional advice to the Chief Executive, Councillors and senior executive staff as needed.
• Statutory Obligations - Responsible for ensuring the Legal, Health and Safety and Statutory Compliance requirements of Hull City Council within the Building and Design services are fully met.
• Emergency Management and Response - In fulfilment of its statutory requirements under the Civil Contingencies Act, the Council operates an out of hours emergency response rota of which this post is part.

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.