Senior Leasehold Property Manager
- Civil Service
- Part Time
- Birmingham
- 55,557 - 66,058
Job Description
Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)This role sits within the following:Job Family Strategic Asset ManagementCore Role Property Portfolio ManagementLevel Senior Practitioner Key accountabilities To provide leadership and oversight of all DWPs leasehold responsibilities including Property transactions required to deliver strategic change eg: acquisitions and disposals, lease regears and landlords consents.Lease event management eg Rent reviews & lease renewals.Day to day estate management duties to ensure compliance with lease obligations.To act as a subject matter expert, providing advice and direction to the senior stakeholders to shape strategy in accordance with best practice.Drive financial performance to meet in year budget targets, providing accurate annual and monthly forecasts within their region or building portfolio and identify and proactively address opportunities for cost reduction including: exploiting lease event opportunities to keep operating cost to a minimum.maximise opportunities to recover business rates and service charge costs.identifying opportunities to increase revenue from the estate and vacant space.Accountability for commercial assurance and approval of financial commitments for commercial property transactions within Delegated financial levels and provide recommendations to governance forums where required, to ensure value for money and commercial probity.Providing development and leadership for your team, embedding new ways of working and fostering a culture of One Team that includes supplier partners and wider teams in DWP Estates, role modelling the civil service behaviours.Instruction and management of third-party supplier partners including building commercial relationships and ensuring appropriate challenge and professional rigour is applied to recommendations and decisions.Accountability for accuracy of lease data, governance reports and supplier management reporting through regular audit and assurance activities.Collaboration with other DWP Estates teams to review, develop and continuously improve cross team end to end processes to ensure effective hand-offs of responsibilities are clear and align with each area of expertise.Key stakeholder engagement and management, acting as subject matter expert and point of escalation on all aspects of leasehold management.To keep abreast of wider Government property initiatives and other government departments strategic intentions, to determine their impact on the DWP Estate eg One Public Estate, MEES/sustainability.To keep up to date with market trends, understand and interpret benchmark information about best in class solutions to drive efficiencies across the estate when undertaking transactions and financial and supplier management.Undertake scenario planning exercises that analyse long term market and economic trends, considering how this might influence and develop the future DWP estates strategy. To ensure consistency in approach and continuous improvement throughout the extended team by regularly reviewing methodology, process, and approach, identifying lessons learned and sharing knowledge as and when required.Ensure succession planning for the Leasehold team by managing capability assessment, professional development of the existing team.