Senior Acquisition and Disposal Officer | Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0FJ

Salary range: £41,808 - £45,021 p.a. inc. London weighting
Contract: Fixed term/Secondment (18 months)
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Civic centre, South Kilburn and other locations from time to time

Helping Build a Better Brent

Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.

The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.

The Post

The post is an excellent opportunity for a professional with supervisory experience and good property negotiation skills. Experience of identifying, sourcing properties for housing and buybacks for regeneration programmes.

The post involves working across the Council’s buying programmes. This is a significant support role covering various high volume and high value acquisition programmes and support on a broad range of day-to-day residential property issues.

Negotiating with leaseholders, agents and developers to agree property transactions for the various programmes. Inspection of properties, instructing surveys and overseeing the buyback process. At completion supporting the handover process for properties acquired or sold, including inspection on completion, arranging security, meter readings, and handover to clients.

The post holder will contribute to the delivery of the Council's property programmes, which is required to achieve a significant number of property acquisitions in Brent and other areas for the council’s housing and regenerations programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in large-scale programmes that deliver property and housing solutions to local residence.

The Person

You will have supervisory experience and experience of property buying. A good knowledge of property standards, good quality design and construction.

You will display professionalism, good judgement, self-motivation and excellent organisational skills – you are able to manage multiple deadlines for example.

You will be able to establish priorities and meet deadlines whilst preserving the high level of accuracy and confidentiality needed.

You will have experience of the property buying process, good negotiation skills and experience of sourcing good quality properties from the open market.

For this role, you will work with a team of property acquisition and disposal officers, lawyers and surveyors, so good written and verbal communication skills are essential.

You will be RICS registered or aspiring to be a RICS professional and have the ability to drive and a full clean Driving Licence would be desirable.

Closing date: 05 December 2024 (23:59)

Additional Information

If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.

Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.

We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.

The information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found here.

Brent has a positive approach to flexible working.

As a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including “non-visible” disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on recruitment@brent.gov.uk

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