About the job

Job summary

This is a great opportunity to join the Property Asset Management Team, working across a geographically dispersed property portfolio, comprising 14 office locations housing circa 6,980 people across England and Wales.

As a member of the property function within the Facilities & Property Asset Management Team, part of the Finance & Business Services Directorate the role holder will lead on provision of data and analysis to support strategic property portfolio decision-making.

Providing support for the implementation of the HM Land Registry Workplace Strategy, you will assist in the management of the HM Land Registry’s property portfolio, including engagement with other government departments on occupancy agreements and financial arrangements.

In addition the successful candidate will maintain close and collaborative working relationships with key internal stakeholders and wider government stakeholders including the Government Property Agency.

Job description

The role involves developing and maintaining property portfolio data and providing analytical insight to support strategic decision making and for responses to internal and external requests for information. 

The role holder will develop robust quality assurance processes to ensure the integrity of the data, and will be required to interpret and present clear, concise property information and insight tailored for a wide range of audiences, including senior committees and wider government stakeholders.

The role will include leading on the design and development of dashboard reporting and metrics making effective use of technology to continually improve analytics.

You will use management information and analysis to undertake scenario modelling and benchmarking to maximise property effectiveness and efficiency.

You will lead, coach and mentor a small team responsible for providing support across all disciplines within Facilities & Property Asset Management.  Reviewing and adapting workflow processes to ensure effective prioritisation of work to meet stakeholder needs.

For more information, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

Person specification

To be successful in the role you will have experience of producing management information within a property profession discipline, with the ability to analyse, present and visualise data with a customer and business focus.

You will have a proven ability verbally and in writing to effectively translate complex property issues to non-expert audiences at a range of levels.

You will have experience in developing and delivering property strategy modelling techniques  as well as having experience of financial management and line management of a team. 

HMLR believe that a blended approach to where you work that enables some time working from home, as well as in the office may give you an improved experience and has clear business benefits. We expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. Beyond this expectation, there is no one size fits all approach (and we can spend up to 100% working in the office if we prefer).

For applicants applying to our Coventry office, please note that our office will be moving to our new location, Cheylesmore House, 5 Quinton Road, Coventry CV1 2WT. The move from our current location (CV1 3BH) will happen in phases, with all staff due to have moved to Cheylesmore House by July 2024.

We’ll assess you against the following technical criteria during the selection process:

Essential Technical Criteria

• Expert User of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint & Word)
• Mathematical skills demonstrated through relevant qualifications or work experience

• Government Property Profession Technical Skills as follows:
• Analytical Decision Making (P)
• Stakeholder Engagement (P)
• Customer & Client Service (P)
• Strategy & Business Planning (P)
• Property Professional Expertise (P)
• Property Professional Expertise (P)

Desirable Technical Criteria

• Have or working towards membership of any of the core Government Property Profession accredited professional bodies (RICS, IWFM, CIOB, CEng, CEnv, RTPI, RIBA)

• Proficient in Microsoft Power BI
• Computer Aided Design (CAD) skills

We’ll assess you against the following experience criteria during the selection process:

Essential Experience Criteria

• Experience of producing management information within a property profession discipline
• Ability to analyse, present and visualise data with a customer and business focus
• Ability verbally and in writing to effectively translate complex property issues to non-expert audiences at a range of levels

• Experience in developing and delivering property strategy modelling techniques
• Experience of financial management
• Experience of line management

Desirable Experience Criteria

• Experience in landlord and tenant matters and property law
• Experience and/or understanding of government strategies for estates and workplace (e.g. Government Hub strategies)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,887, HM Land Registry contributes £11,309 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Please cut and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form when prompted and include your qualifications and career history.

The personal statement section (in no more than 1250 words) must be used to provide details of how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• Experience of producing management information within a property profession discipline (Lead criteria)
• Ability to analyse, present and visualise data with a customer and business focus
• Ability verbally and in writing to effectively translate complex property issues to non-expert audiences at a range of levels

• Experience of financial management
• Experience of line management

 In the event of a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to assess against the lead essential experience criteria shown above and to include the desirable criteria.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview and deliver a pre-prepared presentation week commencing week commencing 12 August, which will be held through MS Teams.

The topic for the pre-prepared presentation will be provided to candidates invited to interview after the application sift.

The blended interview stage of the process will test the experience and behaviours listed in the candidate pack, as well as the strengths associated with the role; we want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

You should ensure you read the attached role description within the candidate pack before fully submitting an application.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.

Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

If you would like further information about the use of your personal data, please click on the link below:
Job Applicant Personal Information

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.