Group Manager Property Asset Management
Are you at ease with strategic thought and implementation, understand the importance of public service and have experience of promoting investment by working with developers and the local community? If you are, we’re looking for you to lead Nottinghamshire County Council’s Property Function.
Nottinghamshire is a place of legend, famous for its history and unique heritage. It is a place of ambition, where people are industrious, pioneering and creative. It is a place where business thrives, creating opportunities and prosperity. Through your inclusive leadership and talent management, we want you to be your own legend and help make Nottinghamshire an even greater place.
We have a fourfold vision for Nottinghamshire – to make it a great place to raise a family; to build a future; to enjoy later life and to start and grow a business. Nottinghamshire is at the heart of the Midlands Engine, is central to the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership and home to the East Midlands Hub Station for High Speed 2. Nottinghamshire ranks first in the East Midlands for superfast and fibre broadband coverage.
Our portfolio is significant – the Council occupies over 1,100 sites including schools, libraries, social care buildings, county offices including County Hall, youth clubs, and smallholdings.
The total annual running cost is in excess of £30m per annum and the total value of the corporate estate, encompassing land and buildings is in excess of £700m. This value includes all locally managed schools (excluding academies).
We expect to see over 60,000 houses and nationally significant infrastructure built in our County, we would see you bringing development of our own land, and assets forward, both at pace and scale.
Reporting to the Director of Growth & Investment, you will have the responsibility for planning and managing our land and property as a corporate resource and have overall responsibility for the Corporate Property Strategy, the Property Asset Management Plan and the Service Asset Management Plans.
WHY JOIN US?
We are passionate about diversity and providing equal opportunity and can offer elements of agile and flexible working. Join us and you will be part of an organisation that values your contribution and empowers you to make a difference for our people and place.
WORKPLACE VALUES
You will be expected to operate in line with our five workplace values which are:
Open and Accountable: Work honestly and openly, and do what we have agreed
Embrace Diversity: Un tap and harness the power of difference
Courageous: Confident to innovate and improve without fear of failure
Ambitious: Want our services to be the best they can be, and we are making it happen
Collaborative: Work relentlessly to achieve win/win outcomes
WHAT TO DO NEXT
Visit our dedicated webpages, which provide information about working in the Place Department: http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/jobs-and-working/working-for-us/place-department
For more information about this role, please contact David Hughes, Director of Growth & Investment on 0115 977 3825 or david.hughes@nottscc.gov.uk
Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.
Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.
Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation.
This vacancy is closed to applications.