Senior Estates Surveyor

at  University College London

ABOUT US

The UCL Estate comprises over 240 buildings, more than 6.5 million square feet of academic accommodation and around 4500 owned student bedrooms, much of which is Grade I and II listed. The location, scale, variety and complexity of the estate are unparalleled in the sector, including world-leading research, teaching, offices and student accommodation within our Bloomsbury and UCL East campus, at Stratford.
We have a proud history, and the ambition and drive to innovate. We strive to provide a coordinated and customer-oriented approach to both buildings and services, maintaining and transforming UCL’s Estate, so that it directly contributes to the creation of a truly inspirational environment for our academics, students and staff. We aim to provide the best possible experience to our students and campus users in respect of the physical estate and all our campus services.
We are seeking to develop a far-reaching Estates Masterplan based on our strategic principles to inform the planning, prioritisation, investment and operation of the portfolio over the coming years, and alongside this we will plan for key projects supporting student growth and the campus experience in the near term.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a high calibre Senior Estates Surveyor to join our Property and Asset Management team at UCL. Senior Estates Surveyor role is a senior job in the Property Team, reporting into Assistant Director or Property and Asset Management, and is vital in delivering collaboration across the Estates division and the wider organisation and supporting the UCL Estates 2050 Vision.

Things you’d be doing in this job include;

• Driving the strategic implementation and constant review of the 2050 Vision with particular reference to the effective utilisation of space both within UCL’s leasehold estate and its retained freehold estate.
• Actively engaging with UCL Estates representation on Estates Faculty boards working to align Estates and Institutional Strategies with local initiatives and their effect on the Property function.
• Assisting the Assistant Director, Property and Asset Management to communicate the Property Strategy to its retained external advisors.
• Attending meetings with our retained external advisors.
• Regularly meeting UCL’s Legal Advisors to achieve these objectives.
• Driving forward ‘business as usual’ functions including property acquisitions and disposals, both leasehold and freehold, rent reviews and lease renewals, licence for alterations, licences to sub-let, alienations, town planning, property records, reporting and business cases etc

A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insuranc