Chartered Valuation Surveyor

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

- 291881**Salary**:

- £53,040**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- VOA - Technical Leaders - Regional Valuation Unit North**Type of role**:

- Property**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Durham, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, PrestonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers. We will provide you with access to a whole host of learning and development opportunities to support your career development.

At the heart of the agency, we are committed to providing our people with a work environment which is accommodating and accessible to all. We value diversity and inclusion and prioritise equality in everything we do. Our people are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work within a culture that values different perspectives to help tackle complex problems, promote innovation, and deliver stronger decision making, in a safe and supportive environment. Applicants are welcomed from a diverse range of backgrounds to join our organisation as this enables us to be representative of the communities that we serve.

We’re looking for talented people who are eager to contribute to vital public services and assist us to deliver taxation and benefits support to the government and local authorities. Your skills and experience will enable us to provide an efficient, effective service right at the heart of the public interest.

Our Technical Leaders have the freedom to manage their own diaries and are empowered to deliver under their own autonomy. We trust our people and look forward to welcoming your skills into the or VOA community.

**Job description**:
**Technical Lead** - The Role**

We are looking for a Chartered Valuation Surveyor interested in becoming a Technical Leader within the Regional Valuation Unit (North).

Our Technical Leaders provide technical advice to colleagues across the network. You will be a technical expert with a natural ability to coach and nurture colleagues undertaking professional qualifications.

The Regional Valuation Unit (RVU) is an exciting, ever-changing environment and will provide you with an excellent opportunity to join our highly skilled, diverse and growing organisation.

You will be joining a team of experienced colleagues who will share their knowledge and support you to become an integral part of the team. You'll share your own knowledge and experience in our collaborative working environment and can undoubtedly bring a new perspective to the organisation.

We are eager to hear from experienced Valuation Surveyors with rating experience, having dealt with a broad range of property types across different valuation methodologies through to valuation tribunal.

**Technical Lead - Responsibilities**

The Chartered Valuation Surveyor - Technical Lead role is an important role supporting our future surveying talent pipeline and providing valuable technical advice, leadership, and guidance to the agency.

The role includes:

- Delivering Non-Domestic Rating casework and providing technical leadership, guidance, and support to caseworkers.
- Leading, motivating, and inspiring others to deliver results including sharing your professional knowledge to help others develop.
- Setting and maintaining a strategic overview of the framework for the work of the team, including embedding the VOA vision and values.
- Offering advice and guidance on complex issues which cannot be resolved within the normal rules or precedents.
- Providing expert witness testimony and advocacy in complex litigation at VTE/VTW/UTLC and beyond. (Full training and support will be provided).
- Act as a Counsellor to colleagues undertaking profession qualifications.

**Person specification**:

- Proactively keep their technical knowledge up-to-date and use it to provide advice and guidance to their teams.
- Demonstrate a personal and professional commitment to the profession by actively participating in and promoting professional activities.
- Build and engage with internal and external networks to share professional knowledge and experience and to develop others.
- Influence and manage a diverse range of stakeholders. They will need to use high levels of negotiating, consulting, and interpersonal skills to achieve co-operation over mutually acceptable solutions.
- The ability to persuade and influence colleagues and stakeholders and to build trusted relationships with peers.
- Good horizon scanning skills - the ability to identify and mitigate against future problems.
- Willingness to seek out and act on feedback, building on existing skills and developing new ones, encouraging, and influencing others to do the same.

**Essential Requirements**
- MRICS/FRICS or IRRV (hons) q