Senior Estates Surveyor

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Senior Estates Surveyor, you will lead on key projects as a specialist contributor. Delivering technical, enforcement and regulation services, you will ensure we are achieving best value for all property transactions. Assisting the Valuation and Asset Management team, you will support them with all aspects of valuation and property management for council estate acquisitions, disposals, asset valuations, ratings and compensation matters. Additionally, you will provide advice and supervision to the Valuer and Assistant Valuer.

What You Will Be Doing

• Managing the council’s land and property estate, negotiating leases, licenses and rent reviews, monitoring debt and securing and monitoring empty properties.
• Providing professional advice, support and guidance to colleagues, ensuring that performance objectives are achieved, teamwork is effective and technical work is carried out satisfactorily.
• Negotiating terms and charges with statutory authorities and other bodies for easements, wayleaves, licences and rights of way affecting land in the ownership of the council.
• Marketing and negotiating the sale or lease of council properties, overseeing and organising projects to ensure they are within budget and achieve council targets.
• Consulting on issues with wider implications, ensuring all activity aligns with service regulations and codes of practice.
• Developing innovative solutions to technical issues and ensuring they are appropriately proposed and implemented successfully.
• Representing the council as an advocate, preparing and presenting reports, including a clear summary of any issues and implications.

What We Need From You

• Hold a degree in estate management or equivalent, alongside a membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors general practice division.
• Have post‑qualification experience working in a commercial organisation, ideally within a local authority.
• Possess practical experience of planning and progressing work activities within general professional guidelines, demonstrating proven management acumen and the ability to motivate staff to achieve organisational objectives and successful technical outcomes.
• Be able to meet commercial and contractual deadlines, with the skills to persuade and influence others and deliver on project outcomes.
• Desirable: be a registered valuer with experience of local government practices and procedures.

What You Need To Know

This is a hybrid role meaning that you can work remotely or in our offices. You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area, so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or an alternative means of travel.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro‑rata), employee wellbeing support and access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people makes us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers, and are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long‑term difference in work. Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces and houses. We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained. We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. We’re Making a Difference, Be Part of It!