Asset Planning Coordinator

Are you ready to make a difference in the future of property management and investment planning? Torus is seeking a skilled Asset Planning Coordinator to join our Asset Management team. Based in Warrington, you will play a pivotal role in managing the risks associated with the condition, configuration, and use of our properties, ensuring that our land and buildings are safe and sustainable for years to come.

Reporting to the Asset Planning and Data Manager, you will lead the coordination of essential investment plans and act as a primary contact for stakeholders involved in developing and delivering these plans, including the stock condition survey program. You’ll also be a key contributor to our Systems Transformation team, providing support and guidance on our transformation initiatives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Liaise with teams across the Group to develop a thorough understanding of the condition and configuration of Torus’s land and building assets and its impact on customers, neighbourhoods, front line services, and portfolio performance.
- Use robust risk management methods to manage risks arising from the condition and configuration of land and building assets, liaising with the appropriate teams to eliminate or mitigate identified risks.
- Assist with the development of a risk-based methodology for assessing the completeness and accuracy of stock condition data.
- Provide line management to the Asset Planning Support, responsible for staff development, performance management, training, absence management, and discipline.
- Provide clear management that builds an environment based on trust, mutual respect, and integrity in which everyone takes individual accountability and responsibility while working together as a team.
- Liaise with front line teams and the Asset Management team to develop programmes of work and investment projects that ensure continued compliance with property standards, make a positive contribution to the performance of assets, and achieve efficiencies in delivery.
- Produce strategic briefs for programmes of work and investment projects and act as client throughout the design, commissioning, and delivery process.
- Assist with the development of 1-, 5- and 30-year investment plans.
- Liaise with the Asset Data Analyst, front line teams, and the Asset Management team to develop survey programmes that minimize risk and support asset data management, investment planning, and business planning activities.
- Provide clear instruction to the Stock Condition and Planning team, including the reason for and urgency of surveys, to enable the effective planning and delivery of the survey programme.
- Develop, and monitor compliance with, policies to ensure refusals and access failures on survey and investment programmes are dealt with appropriately to minimize risks and provide adequate defence against legal challenge.
- Liaise with external agencies and internal customers on commercial lease matters including license to alter and license to assign and maintain the commercial lease asset register.
- Contribute to the delivery of the operational plan and the development of an outstanding asset management service that makes a positive contribution to the Torus vision in a manner that reflects the Torus values.
- Take personal responsibility for your own personal and professional development and support the development of others by providing advice and coaching in the specialisms of this role to members of the Asset Management Team.
- Act as champion of change, innovation, continuous improvement, value for money, and risk management.
- Be a positive influence in a team based on trust, mutual respect, and integrity in which everyone takes individual accountability and responsibility while working together as a team.
- Carry out such other duties and responsibilities as are consistent with the role.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Experience of stock condition risk, gained within an Asset Management function.
- Level 4 qualification in managing housing maintenance (planned) or equivalent
- Relevant people management & leadership experience commensurate with the role
- Evidence of and commitment to continual professional and personal development.
- Sound knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements for property standards in the social housing sector.
- Understanding, gained through experience within an asset management function, of the impact of the condition and configuration of social housing assets on customers, neighbourhoods, front line services and portfolio performance.
- Experience managing risks associated with the condition and configuration of land and building assets, including liaising with delivery teams to eliminate or mitigate risks.
- Experience working with housing/asset management systems and stock condition data.
- Experience planning and acting as client on stock condition survey programmes.
- Experience developing and acting as client on investment programmes.
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