Dio- Estates Surveyor

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 263907**Salary**:

- £33,830- Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% and additional benefits**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Strategy & Plans (Estate Strategy) - Optimisation**Type of role**:

- Estates
- Planning
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- Andover, SP11 8HJ; Donnington, TF2 8JT; Rosyth, KY11 2XHAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe

**About DIO**

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**Job description**:
We are seeking a motivated and suitably experienced property and/or project professional, who enjoys working closely within a team, sharing skills, knowledge and successes for the overall portfolio, with a passion to be appropriately stretched and challenged with a wide range of responsibilities.

Are you keen to support Front Line Commands (FLCs) by advising on their estate strategy; undertaking studies, surveys, research and work on a mix of property types and military capabilities, in support of wider DIO and MOD projects and operational objectives?

If so, this is the job for you

**Benefits Include**:

- Opportunity to attend Government and industry led CPD events;
- Access to a diverse community of property professionals across government for sharing knowledge and ideas; and
- A comprehensive career framework to support your career journey.

The post may require some travel. Some sites are difficult to access via public transport and therefore, a driving licence would be desirable.

**Person specification**:
**Main Responsibilities**:

- Monitoring of supplier performance and the production of progress reports for assigned projects.
- Liaison and support to the Programme Manager and Project Delivery Managers on projects within their areas. Undertaking regular analysis and reporting of the programme markers and financial forecasting for projects assigned.
- Supporting Estate change programmes, achieved through understanding Defence outputs and objectives.
- Work to achieve coherence across Defence and estate planning through collaborative working and analysing the dependencies between strategic estate and other initiatives.
- To ensure all estate studies are provided to the right quality, cost and within the specified timeframe.
- Assist with leading on project delivery of estate reports and plans and ensuring integration with overall estate strategies and relevant programmes.
- To support, understand and advise the FLCs on property/infrastructure related requirements and obligations in the development of infrastructure solutions.
- Provide advice on the potential planning, valuation and other project and property management issues that would need to be considered in weighing up estate options and recommending solutions.
- Support the commercial function in the tendering, evaluation of and negotiation of Tenders, Contract Changes and Compensation Events.
- Manage estate data gathering and analysis to inform work with DIO colleagues, customers, and consultants.
- Conduct data analysis outputs to be utilised for future estate planning and delivery activities.

**Additional Duties**:

- Responsible for assurance in relation to contracted out delivery of IO outputs and advice.
- Responsible for accurate storage of all relevant data, reports and records.
- Performance management and continuous improvement.

**Desirable Experience & Skills**
- Experience in project management.
- Experience of strategic surveying planning, estate management, policy issues or programme management.
- Membership or willingness to obtain membership of an appropriate professional body such as RICs, CIOB or CIBA.
- Experience of working in a complex environment.
- Recent construction based/ Military project experience
- UK Driving Licence.
- UK Passport

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Government Property Profession Career Framework - Strategic Asset - Management / Intelligent Client Function - Property Data Management

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