Dio - Senior Property Advisor

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

- 262463**Salary**:

- £41,000- + £5000 Allowance and Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% and additional benefits**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - COO - Estates - Accommodation Optimisation**Type of role**:

- Estates
- Property
- Surveying**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Abbey Wood, Andover, Brecon, Catterick, Donnington, Lichfield - Whittington, London, Chippenham - Lyneham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sandhurst, Wyton, RosythAbout 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

**Job description**:
**The Role**

The Senior Property Advisor will be responsible for providing residential accommodation strategy advice, based on balancing competing demands and dependencies across numerous MOD accommodation initiatives, especially with regards to the value for money provision of new Service Families Accommodation and Single Living Accommodation to meet the requirements of the Defence Estate Optimisation Programmes and other Military funded projects. The role will also involve managing the delivery aspects of some projects, with continuous assessments of progress against programmes, ensuring continued alignment with wider DIO/Military infrastructure programmes and strategic objectives.

**DIO Business Area - Estates**

The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha). This is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas.
If you are a suitably qualified property professional who would be interested in working client-side with Military colleagues on one of the largest estates in the country and/or across an extensive overseas portfolio, and you are motivated by the prospect of working on a diverse range of exciting, interesting and often-challenging projects of National interest in support of the UK Defence Mission, then the DIO Estates Team is for you

Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) supporting infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safeguard, and dispose of Defence real estate. Our unique customer knowledge and insight of the Defence Estate enables our in-house team of property professionals to provide in-depth advice to our Military customers.

**The Team**

**About DIO**
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**Person specification**:
The main responsibilities of the role are:

- Accommodation strategy, planning, funding, development, and delivery, reviewing and assessing progress against programmes and ensuring continued alignment with wider DIO/Military infrastructure programmes and strategic objectives.
- The role will deliver accommodation optimisation projects, outputs, and advice to all customers, including via DIO in-house staff and Industry Partners as required. This will include delivering strategy development, assessing options for the provision of new residential accommodation to meet the requirements of DIO/Defence Estate Optimisation Programmes and other Military funded projects, balancing competing demands and dependencies. You will complete business case development and approvals linked to investment and value for money appraisals, leading all aspects of local planning, design, and procurement workload.
- Support the Head and Assistant Head of Accommodation Optimisation Team on other team outputs and programmes as applicable that support the provision of better Accommodation to service personnel.

Post holders will be required to travel to at least some of the sites covered by the post on an ad hoc basis and some visits may involve overnight stays. Some sites are difficult to access via public transport. If travelling outside your base location for duty reasons, you will have access to hire cars, rail tickets and overnight accommodation. You can also claim 45 pence per mile should you choose to use your own vehicle for business travel.

All employees work in accordance with the established DIO approach to hybrid working (an informal, non-contractual arrangement, blending attendance in the office or on-site and working remotely) and will be provided with IT equipment, desk, and chair to facilitate remote working a