SENIOR DEED TECHNICIAN, ESTATES TECHNICAL TEAM - 31737

Senior Deed Technician, Estates Technical Team - 31737
Number of jobs available
1
Region
Yorkshire and the Humber
City/Town
Sheffield
Building/Site

DEFRA GRP EA QUADRANT TWO, S9 4WF

Grade
Staff Grade 5
Post Type
Fixed Term
Role Type
Estates, Surveying
Working Pattern
Part Time
Salary Minimum
£41,617 Pro-rata
Closing Date:
03/09/2025, 23:55 hours
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Job description
We’re fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns, including compressed hours.
As the Senior Deed Technician in Estates, you’ll be part of a small team working on the Digitising Estates Legal documents and Deeds, developing and solving ongoing technical issues and requirements. You will be building on the progress and processes from the previous years working on the project to bring it to completion and help embed technical changes and improvements into business-as-usual ways of working. You will also provide technical leadership for the Deed Technicians and Surveyors within Estates utilising your legislative, terrier and surveying skills and knowledge.
Together with the technical aspects of the roll you will be reviewing, cataloguing and preparing Deed Packets for scanning by an external third party. This will require an eye for detail and accuracy of information processing and data transfer.
This role also requires good customer service with Estates Surveyors and Project Support Officers to retrieve and send digital or original copies of the Deeds whilst they are being processed. You will be required to support customers with their technical needs and questions regarding the Deeds and their content, together with interpretation of them to answer specific questions and requirements.
Being part of our Team, you’ll need to be a self-starter keen to join a group of team players who have a desire to improve how we deliver our work and make a difference to improve the environment.
Responding to incidents is an important part of what we do, and with this in mind you’ll have an incident role and should be ready to make yourself available to respond or provide business continuity support.
The team
The Estates Team sits within the larger Corporate and National Services directorate. You can read more about the directorate in the Additional Information pack.
The Estates service extends to 160 people, offering professional support for Environment Agency land, property, compensation and valuation matters. We are core to the delivery of the Agency’s £5.2 billion capital programme to better protect 336,000 homes.
Experience/skills required

You’ll be expected to:

• Balance workloads to ensure tasks are achieved to deadline.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships, including internal team members.
• Have excellent attention to detail and recording of information.
• Have an aptitude for overcoming differences in process and documents.
• Be able to communicate well and effectively to different audiences, delivering requested information in an accurate and timely manner.
• Have strong organisational skills to assist with workstream plans and schedules.
• Ability to work with discretion when processing sensitive information and understanding of appropriate data management practices.
• Provide detailed technical advice and guidance regarding the Deeds and terrier information.
• Demonstrate technical leadership for the project and those working on it.
• Deliver the required project outcomes in a timely manner and to deadlines.
• Be prepared to challenge and support decision making where appropriate.

Contact and additional information
This role is Office based with little opportunity for working from home, located at Quadrant 2, Sheffield. There will be aspects of manual handling Archive boxes and preparing them for transport.
Interviews are expected to take place on 02 and 03 October 2025 via MS Teams.
If you have any further enquiries about this role, please email RecruitmentEstates@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Length of contract
Up to 31 March 2026
Competence 1
Data and Information Management
Description
Collects, analyses, interprets, records, manages, develops and shares data, material or information appropriately for a variety of purposes.
You will review Deed Packets, gather and compare information from the documents, update existing records, and prepare the documents for scanning.
In no more than 250 words, please describe a time when you processed data from legal documents, recorded and interpreted the information to capture a required outcome to accurately meet a specific need.
Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our “EA capability dictionary”.
Competence 2
Legislative Knowledge
Description
Applies a knowledge of statutory environmental and technical requirements to protect both the Environment Agency and the environment.
You’ll support Estates Surveyors by answering technical questions and working with legal documents in Deed Packets.
In no more than 250 words, please describe a time when you used terrier knowledge to carefully check a document in a Deed Packet to support a legal action/activity for a piece of land or property. What was the result, and what challenges did you face?
Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our “EA capability dictionary”.
Competence 3
Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
The Deed Digitisation Project will face various challenges that need solving to ensure success.
In no more than 250 words, please describe a time when you spotted a significant legal or technical problem. Explain how you made a decision to solve it, and what impact that decision had.
Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our “EA capability dictionary”.