Asset Surveyor

**Asset Surveyor - Grade PO4**

**INSIDE IR35**

**3 Month Contract**

**£23 Per hour Umbrella**

Join our innovative and dynamic team as an Asset Surveyor in a role that offers a unique opportunity to lead impactful projects without disclosing the specific employer. This is a Grade PO4 position with a competitive salary.

**Position Details**:

- ** Location**: Wirral
- ** Type**: Full-time
- ** Reporting To**: Manager Assets and Surveying
- ** Reference**: REG0147P

**Role Overview**:
As an Asset Surveyor working within a multi-disciplinary Asset Management Team, you will play a key role in delivering a broad asset management function. Your primary responsibility will be managing the recently expanded commercial portfolio, with a focus on town centre premises.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Manage the Council's commercial property portfolio, particularly town centre premises.
- Procure and maintain all contracts related to the management of commercial premises.
- Budget management for commercial premises.
- Provide advice and support in all estate management matters in town centre regeneration.
- Liaise with supply chain partners and instruct consultants and property agents for property matters.
- Offer professional advice to support the Council's Strategic Asset Management activities.
- Negotiate with tenants, individuals, companies, and professionals.
- Identify and prepare Committee and Delegated reports, taking ownership through decision-making.
- Represent the department and Asset Management section at property-related meetings.
- Instruct the Council's Legal team on detailed terms of property transactions.
- Provide a broad asset management function to meet the Council's strategic objectives.

**Role-Specific Knowledge, Experience, and Skills**:
**Qualifications**:

- Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
- Maintain RICS membership with required annual continuing professional development.

**Knowledge & Skills**:

- Collaborative work with other professional disciplines, Council groups, external agencies, and the community.
- Budget management (in excess of £5 million).
- Service performance monitoring and implementation of efficiency savings.
- Effective communication of advice to various stakeholders.
- Chairing high-level and complex meetings.
- Competence in providing interpretation, analysis, advice, and guidance on complex issues.
- Comprehensive knowledge of key asset legislation, policies, and emerging best practices.

**Experience**:

- Detailed experience in asset management across a wide range of property types within a complex customer-focused environment.
- Corporate working, collaboration across the authority and with external partners.
- Experience in acquisitions and disposals of assets to support regeneration initiatives.

**Desirable Knowledge, Experience, and Skills**:

- Practical understanding of RICS valuation global standards.
- Practical knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, and guidance, including RICS.
- Supervisory ability.
- Clear report writing and presentation on detailed property matters.
- Practical experience associated with a specific discipline.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplined team.
- Collection and analysis of complex information, considering and evaluating all relevant factors.
- Planning, coordinating, and delivering tasks and programs to meet targets.
- Operating with minimum supervision.
- Adherence to deadlines and effective workload prioritization.
- Good interpersonal, literacy, and numeracy skills.

**Additional Information**:

- Travel across the borough is required.
- Flexibility to work outside traditional hours, including weekends and evenings, adopting an agile working approach in response to business requirements.