Chartered Surveyor

**Details**: **Reference number**: - 437084 **Salary**: - £59,342 - National minimum: £59,342 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP **Job grade**: - Grade 7 ** Contract type**: - Permanent ** Business area**: - VOA - Technical Leaders - District Valuer Services ** Type of role**: - Surveying Valuation ** Working pattern**: - Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time ** Number of jobs available**: - 2 **Contents**: - Location - About the job - Benefits - Things you need to know ** Location**: - Birmingham, Cambridge, Colchester, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Stoke-on-Trent ** About the job**: ** Job summary**: - The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. Our work is vital to the collection of over £60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales. - We champion the values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation. We are committed to providing a collaborative and supportive working environment that encourages every colleague to contribute, grow and excel together. With opportunities to drive your own development and growth, we empower our colleagues to succeed by ensuring support at every step of their career journey. ** Job description**: - **Role Overview** - We’re recruiting a Sector Leader for Health within District Valuer Service (DVS), which is a key division of the Valuation Office Agency. DVS are dedicated to delivering a wide range of statutory and non-statutory functions that have been essential since our inception in 1910. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team and contribute to our mission of providing expert property valuation services. - Our Core Functions within DVS are: - **Valuation and Taxation**: Providing insightful advice on valuations and apportionments to support national taxation initiatives. - **Support for Public Bodies**: Offering comprehensive property advice and valuations to Other Public Bodies (OPBs), enabling them to effectively carry out their regulatory and legislative duties. - **Government Policy Implementation**: Assisting in the delivery of government policies and estate strategies, particularly in contexts where public functions and funding are involved.- Most of our projects are undertaken on a contractual basis, utilizing an "earned funding" approach that ensures full cost recovery. This model allows us to engage in a variety of interesting and challenging work while maintaining the quality and sustainability of our services. Join the District Valuer Service and be part of a dedicated team that plays a crucial role in shaping public sector property valuation across the nation. - This is a technical surveying and leadership role primarily involving project management of valuation work for national clients in the health sector. It’s an excellent opportunity to lead high profile work and collaborate with specialist teams. As a Sector Leader for Health, you will be responsible for managing a large and diverse client base, whilst providing technical advice and support to the team. - For the East Midlands role your clients will be based across the East Midlands region. - For the East role your clients will be based across the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire. - **Key responsibilities**- Undertaking casework which will typically fall within the following key areas: - Providing value for money advice to the NHS in connection with proposed new primary care schemes. - Leading on disputed cases under the Doctors’ Rent and Rates Reimbursement Scheme, sometimes involving preparation and submission of expert witness reports. - Providing a range of estates advice to NHS clients, including valuations for acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant etc. - Providing IFRS compliant asset valuations to NHS Bodies for financial accounting purposes. - Providing technical leadership, guidance, and support to caseworkers within DVS and across the sector to build capability and the delivery of timeliness targets, primarily on a regional and, as required, national basis. - Ensuring an awareness of the wider political, economic, social, technical, environmental, and legislative agendas that impact DVS and Health Sector clients. - Developing and maintaining strong relationships with DVS clients and ensuring customer satisfaction, understanding and challenging the needs of the client. - Reporting to stakeholders up to and including Ministerial level where necessary. Pro-actively marketing our professional services to existing and potential clients, developing and maintaining client relationships. Identifying and developing new products and services required by clients. - Maintaining a good understanding of the links to other work areas and th