Corporate Landlord Business Partner

Job description

Grow your career and transform our Borough.

Strategic Property Services are now recruiting for a Corporate Landlord Business Partner. We are looking for an experienced proactive person to join and enhance our team of hardworking, passionate and friendly staff.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to support how Enfield Council manages its operational estate efficiently via implementation of an effective asset management strategy and corporate landlord approach.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Business Partner who will engage with and support front line services, to understand operational needs and challenges and support the development of a corporate property strategy for Customers property portfolios. Assisting with the delivery of the Corporate Landlord and compliance initiative, driving efficiencies and optimising the Council's operational property assets, to meet corporate objectives and in line with the Council's Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP).

Reporting to the Corporate Landlord Manager, you will commission substantial complex cross-cutting and collaborative asset management projects from conception to completion. This role will also assist with managing the operational assets, ensuring compliance with legal agreements and minimising exposure to risk.

The team

Strategic Property Services is a growing team of public sector property professionals, who are passionate about optimising Enfield Council's property assets to create community dividends. We have created an ambitious new Strategic Asset Management Plan for Enfield, which will deliver on the Council's broadest corporate objectives, including economic growth, diversity, sustainability, well-being and new homes.

We manage all 1,100 of Enfield's non-housing assets, from our own operational accommodation, to industrial estates, retail assets and farms in the Green Belt, with a current income of c.£8M p/a from our investment estate. We act as the Council's Corporate Landlord, responsible for ensuring strategic property planning and compliance across the portfolio. We undertake all aspects of property asset management, from leases and licenses, to disposals, acquisitions, development deals and joint ventures.

We are the custodians of all Enfield's Property Information and operate the Council's Asset Management System. We are also growing the Council's capacity and capability in Geographical Information Systems (mapped data). Our aim is to have a comprehensive and qualified property team, to provide Enfield Council with an exemplar professional property service.

The Operational Estates Management team acts as the Corporate Landlord for the Council and ensures the strategy is fully embedded across the whole operational portfolio to deliver fit-for-purpose space that is efficient, value for money, and environmentally sustainable. You will support the Council's transformative 'Build the Change' programme which focuses on the consolidation and rationalisation of the corporate office estate portfolio. You will be working with the programme's other workstreams of FM, construction, HR, IT, and communications, and their respective external consultants.

The requirements

You will be an experienced Business Partner ideally with previous service or property experience in the public sector, working in a busy dynamic team providing the 'tool' to all Council staff who rely on Property related data ensuring compliance with all Council policies, procedures and legislation.

You should demonstrate good negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills and have experience of working with a variety of client groups collaboratively within a Property or Service environment. Working with the whole of Strategic Property Services, within deadlines and budget whilst responding positively to changing/competing demands.

The role plays a key part in building relationships with internal staff as well working with external providers of professional services within the operational property team and some fixed-term team members to support upcoming projects. The office is based in Enfield Town and regular travel around the Borough will be required along with the flexibility to work from home.

Summary

In the Strategic Property Services team, no day is the same and there are constant challenges, but we all share a vision, which is to ensure that Enfield's property assets are most effectively used for the benefit of Enfield's residents and businesses.

If this sounds like a great opportunity for you, then we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Contact Details

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Lynn Robertson on 020 81323 158 for an informal discussion.

If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Farida Uddin on 0208 132 1027 or email [email protected]

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents.

Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria within your supporting statement in your application/CV.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
• 1 month paid sabbatical for Children's Social Workers

This role requires you to upload your CV and complete the supporting statement box addressing how you meet the requirements of the essential and desirable criteria in the job description and person specification.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

If you have applied for this post in the last 12 months, unfortunately a second application will not be considered.

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