Corporate Landlord Officer

**Grow your career and transform our Borough.**

Strategic Property Services are now recruiting for a Corporate Landlord Officer. We are looking for an experienced proactive person to join and enhance our team of hardworking, passionate and friendly staff.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to support how Enfield Council manages its operational estate efficiently via implementation of an effective asset management compliance strategy and corporate landlord approach.

**The role**

We are looking for an experienced Property Officer who will support and carry out as appropriate, Corporate Landlord and compliance responsibilities within the Operational Property portfolio, ensuring safe occupied space, optimising the Council’s operational property assets to meet corporate objectives and support excellent front-line services.

This role will be key to the successful implementation of the Corporate Landlord policy and approach and will, support and monitor non-technical statutory compliance across the estate, working collaboratively with colleagues in CMFM and developing tools to achieve this. Reporting to the Corporate Landlord Manager, you will implement the Corporate Landlord Policy across the operational portfolio to ensure the operational estate is fully compliant with all relevant legislation and operating effectively in line with the Council’s Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP). Leading the development and management of a vacant property strategy, this role will also assist with managing the operational assets, ensuring compliance with legal agreements and minimizing exposure to risk.

**The team**

Strategic Property Services is a growing team of public sector property professionals, who are passionate about optimising Enfield Council's property assets to create community dividends. We have created an ambitious new Strategic Asset Management Plan for Enfield, which will deliver on the Council's broadest corporate objectives, including economic growth, diversity, sustainability, well-being and new homes.

We manage all 1,100 of Enfield's non-housing assets, from our own operational accommodation, to industrial estates, retail assets and farms in the Green Belt, with a current income of £8M p/a from our investment estate. We act as the Council's Corporate Landlord, responsible for ensuring strategic property planning and compliance across the portfolio. We undertake all aspects of property asset management, from leases and licenses, to disposals, acquisitions, development deals and joint ventures.

We are the custodians of all Enfield's Property Information and operate the Council's Asset Management System. We are also growing the Council's capacity and capability in Geographical Information Systems (mapped data). Our aim is to have a comprehensive and qualified property team, to provide Enfield Council with an exemplar professional property service.

The Operational Property team acts as the Corporate Landlord for the Council and ensures the strategy is fully embedded across the whole operational portfolio to deliver fit-for-purpose space that is efficient, value for money, and environmentally sustainable. You will support the Council’s transformative ‘Build the Change’ programme which focuses on the consolidation and rationalisation of the corporate office estate portfolio. You will be working with the programme’s other workstreams of FM, construction, HR, IT, and communications, and their respective external consultants.

**The requirements**

You will be an experienced Property Officer with previous property experience and ideally public sector experience. Experience in working in a busy dynamic team providing the ‘tool’ to all Council staff who rely on Property related data ensuring compliance with all Council policies, procedures and legislation.

You should demonstrate good problem-solving skills and have experience of working with a variety of client groups collaboratively within a Property environment and will work with the whole of Strategic Property Services, manage our assets efficiently and safely, working within deadlines, and budget whilst responding positively to changing/competing demands.

The role plays a key part in building relationships with internal staff as well working with external providers of professional services within the operational property team and some fixed-term team members to support upcoming projects. The office is based in Enfield Town and regular travel around the Borough will be required along with the flexibility to work from home.

**Why it's great to work for Enfield Council**

A career in local government presents an unrivalled opportunity to make a positive difference for the communities we serve. We also offer:

- Flexible approach to working hours patterns, ideal for people with caring responsibilities.
- Ability to work remotely as well as in the office or on site.
- Annual upward salary increments within the stated salary scale
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