Rural Valuer

**Role Overview**

**Team Overview**

Savills culture is one of trust and respect, teamwork and collaboration. Our teams and our clients benefit when we work together, listening to and learning from each other. Above all, we value the motivation of our people. This is evidenced by our wellbeingoffer, our capability to facilitate flexible working and our support to enjoy a healthy work life balance.

This team has a flexible approach so please discuss what this might look like for your role in your discussions and interview.

We are a fast paced and friendly team, the core group in York being made up of 1 Directors, 1 AD, 1 associate, a graduate and administrator who work closely with other valuers within the region providing advice predominately to private clients. We work closelywith colleagues in agency, forestry, energy and rural management to provide consultancy advice.

With over 80 rural professional staff working across 30 UK offices, Savills can claim one of the largest professional teams in the UK. Savills Professional Services provide advice on valuation, landlord and tenant, expert witness and CPO, covering propertyassets of any scale, from large country estates to small farms, country houses and other rural properties, as well as high value residential assets in the main cities. The team has a deep knowledge base and is able to provide a clearly defined long-term careerstructure and excellent training opportunities for the right person. Our clients include rural estates, farmers, corporate/public bodies, rural property investors and private individuals.

We are flexible as to location, though the role will be mainly supported from York. The York office is a multi-disciplinary rural and residential office providing specialist services including rural management, forestry, energy, planning, development, buildingsurveying, residential and rural valuation and more.

The Rural, Energy & Projects team and the region is very well supported by a wide knowledge base, resources and research within the national and international Savills network.

**Key Responsibilities of the Role**
- Working with a team valuing rural land and property, including farms, estates, residential property and other mixed use rural property assets
- Professional consultancy work, including compulsory purchase and general negotiation over property rights
- Working with clients on areas of contentious landlord and tenant work on agricultural property, including rent review and landlord/tenant buyouts
- Assisting in the delivery of expert witness reports
- Assisting the development of the professional business through networking internally and externally
- An interest in identifying and developing new business opportunities
- To help promote and deliver the firm’s compliance procedures and standards
- To support team members in career development via training (to ensure high skill levels both technically & behaviourally), coaching, mentoring and the promotion and succession/talent processes

In addition to the tasks described above, the job holder may be required to carry out other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

**Skills, Knowledge and Experience**

**Technical experience:

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- Member of RICS
- Competent and skilled with Microsoft Office, including Excel; training will be provided in respect of internal systems
- Ability to use varied methods of valuation
- Capacity to analyse and present statistical information
- Clear written and verbal communication style
- Driving licence and own car essential

**Skills and Knowledge**
- Manage time effectively, prioritising tasks to ensure deadlines are met
- Delivers efficiency in addition to effectiveness
- Diplomatic and confident with a positive outlook
- Presentable and approachable and ability to engage with a variety of audiences
- Ability to work in a clear and logical fashion, with good organisational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent relationship builder to generate business
- Focussed: commits to challenging goals and delivers consistently against these
- Cost management: financial and commercial acumen with excellent planning, budgeting and operational reporting skills
- Continuous improvement: delivers efficiency in addition to effectiveness
- Self-starter, who relishes challenges and strives for the best
- Strong team player: builds relationships and consults with others, quickly establishes trust and credibility
- Confident with a positive outlook
- Ethical with strong integrity
- Someone who has innate curiosity and is eager to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible

**Assessment applicants can expect during selection**
- 2 stage interview
- Personality Profile
- Skills Testing (eg excel, word)