Area Asset Risk Valuer - UK Wide

Nationwide and The Mortgage Works Property Risk department are seeking to expand their existing expert Valuation team strategically throughout the UK (excluding Northern Ireland as currently at capacity in the region). As an Area Asset Risk Valuer you will be the eyes and ears of Nationwide/ The Mortgage Works Property Risk team in your region. Ideally you will have broad current experience working in the region as a residential Valuer. No two days are ever the same but you should expect to spend around half of your working week undertaking inspections and valuations for both Nationwide and The Mortgage Works brands covering the owner occupier and buy to let markets. The rest of your time will be split between new build/ first on site appraisals, assisting our internal risk and property teams with local technical advice, special projects and building your reputation as the go to expert in your local market.

This role is based within Nationwide’s Property Risk department who are responsible for the valuation and risk assessment of every property taken into mortgage with Nationwide, The Mortgage Works and our heritage brands. Whilst part of the broader department covering everything from panel management, pvqs, new build exposure, property data, policy and guidance to name but a few specialities of the teams, you will be a member of a close knit UK wide Chartered Surveyor/ Valuer team, reporting into our Eastern and Western region Senior Risk Managers.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected. For this job you'll be located at our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be in Bournemouth.

What you’ll be doing: This is a hybrid role with the autonomy to manage your own patch and diary. Around half of your time will be taken up by inspections and valuations chosen by you to maximise the lenders risk governance of the region and with a broad coverage of the main property types, risks and opportunities within the region. Your risk function days away from inspections will be spent undertaking first on site appraisals across the region and setting exposure limits for those sites on an individual basis as well as assisting the central teams with any local valuation/ risk queries. You will build, retain, maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders (Panel Firms, Agents, Brokers, Developers etc) and assist managing 3rd party relationships, deal with and take ownership of complaints, appeals, queries, requests for specialist advice from inception through to resolution.

Other areas that you may be asked to get involved with include valuation/ lending decision disparities, portfolio assessments and special projects dependent on your own surveying knowledge/ background and areas of specific interest. Through your work in the local marketplace, help identify process and policy improvements to enable Nationwide to do more, safe lending and assist with training of existing and new staff.

About you: The candidate must be FRICS/MRICS/Assoc RICS qualified and a RICS Registered Valuer (VRS). We will not accept applications from candidates without these qualifications. The candidate must be skilled in the residential valuation sector with proven post qualification experience. All candidates must be based in their valuation patch as daily travel to appointments in the region is an essential element of the role. An inquisitive mindset is key – the ability and drive to delve beneath the surface to understand what is really happening in the local market. A desire to change the residential valuation process for the better and to modernise the industry. A right first time mentality and customer first outlook.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

The extras you’ll get: There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different: Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank. As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

What to do next: If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us. We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.