Senior Property Acquisitions Manager

Grade 18 - internal promotions will be aligned to the pay policy.

Salary - Base salary: From £54,878pa for Birmingham depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

This is a Fixed Term Contract opportunity until after which in some circumstances the role may become a permanent position.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Senior Property Acquisition Manager at HS2,you will be responsible for leading on delegated acquisitions to ensure timely availability of the required land for the HS2 project.

About the role :

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Responsible for overseeing the more complex and challenging acquisitions on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of properties, spanning cities and large
  areas of rural land on behalf of the Acquisition Lead
• Implement the strategy for delivering this significant acquisition program, as well as helping to ensure the programme runs to time whilst maintaining HS2’s reputation
  Manage complex negotiations and relationships with area landowners
• Ensure all compensation claims are negotiated to settlement within policy, legal guidelines and budget parameters so that land is available to the project at the
  right time
• Proactively build relationships with affected property owners, individuals and organisations in a specified area of a region, to enable the negotiation process to
  be carried out effectively
• Support the relevant aspects of petitions, negotiations and valuations to ensure resulting acquisitions meet forecast and quality requirements
• Lead negotiations for petitions filed within a specified geographical area to minimise petitions reaching select committee, and prepare the evidence for cases
  that are presented to committee
• Provide relevant technical advice to the delivery function, town planning, environment and petition management stakeholders, to inform decision making in those areas from a property perspective
• Collaborate and communicate with other members of the property acquisition management team to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work,and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

About you:

Skills:

• Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way
• Stakeholder management
• Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information
• Skill in developing public facing communications
• Capability in project management techniques
• Report writing skills and data compilation and analysis
• IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent
• Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems.

Knowledge:

• Chartered Surveyor (or equivalent) with knowledge of dealing with multiple stakeholders on sensitive property issues
• An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided).

Type of experience:

• Experience of working in the property business (preferably in land acquisition)
• Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas
that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV.

In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.