Surveyor

**Location: covering an area which includes East London, Chelmsford and Colchester**

**Salary: up to £50,209.69 including car allowance**

**Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday**

**About Us**

We are the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England. We manage 60,000 homes for people in later life across almost 1,700 sites and operate in over 85% of local councils in England. Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.

As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our residents at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.

And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.

**Why Join the Property Delivery Team?**

We are diverse team of over 100 colleagues delivering resident focused property solutions. We operate through a team of 50 surveyors each with a defined group of locations and each surveyor is responsible for between 30 and 40 locations.

This is an exciting time to join us as we conclude procurement of 15-year, £1.7bn contracts. The 8 new contracts will provide a transformational approach to how we deliver services to our residents and realise efficiencies for Anchor. To equip Anchor with the skills and capacity to realise the benefits of these contracts we are recruiting to various new roles

**The Role**

As a Surveyor at Anchor you will play a crucial role in leading and managing the delivery of property investment, service and inspection, and repairs services to a designated portfolio of properties (approximately 20-40 locations).

Working closely with housing or care operations teams, you will ensure the timely delivery of services, good maintenance of properties, and that you meet property strategy targets.

Your responsibilities will include identifying and correcting building defects, managing project delivery, analysing property performance, identifying cost savings, and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations.

You will:

- Work with operational colleagues and residents to ensure homes are safe secure, and well maintained.
- Lead and manage the delivery of property investment, service, and inspection, and repairs services to the designated portfolio of properties.
- Undertake regular inspections of the property condition.
- Ensure necessary repairs and planned works are delivered in the most cost-effective manner.
- Assess properties to review future investment and repair planning.

**About you**

You will:

- Build trust, openness, honesty, collaboration, and support across teams.
- Demonstrate excellent planning and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Provide a Learning and Development plan for self-growth.
- Work well under pressure and remain resilient.
- Possess strong interpersonal and networking skills.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.

If you are passionate about the property industry and eager to join a dynamic team, we want to hear from you. We welcome applicants who are looking to develop their careers, including Degree/HND/HNC students’ part-way through their course that may wish to consider completing their studies on a part time basis.

**Anchor - a great place to work**

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

**A rewarding environment**

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

**Health & happiness**
- Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
- Mental health support
- Flexible working options
- Access to online GP appointments

**Finance**
- Pension plan - contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
- Quick and easy pension transfer service
- Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
- Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

**Career**
- Ongoing personal and professional development programme
- Leadership Pathways online learning resources
- Career progression and promotion opportunities

**Celebrating diversity, celebrating you**

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that