Necessary Experience
The Head of Estates will be a qualified Chartered Architect or Surveyor (RIBA or RICS) or possess another suitable recognised professional qualification; and have substantial proven post qualification experience. They must have had a wide range of experience, preferably covering work in both the public and private sector at a senior executive management level with exposure to commercial markets as well as general estatemanagement, valuation, construction and property planning and development. The post holder will be a strategic thinker with sound influencing and negotiating skills, excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills across all levels both internal (particularly HR and IT on the customer journey) and external, and good project management experience and skills (APM, Prince 2 or P3M3) desirable. The possession of high- level inter-personal, analytical, creative and communication skills including the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with other senior colleagues to explain difficult messages. The Head of Estates must also have strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to motivate and manage all the staff working under their direction as well as the remote management of staff based around the country. They will be able to evidence the ability to drive change through the development and implementation of the Force Estate Strategy. The post holder will be: able to grasp the realities and complexities of operational policing, be proactive, dynamic and have the presence and credibility to manage a complex range of property interests and the overall programme management of estate outputs. They will have knowledge and understanding of Government policy in relation to property, technical knowledge and experience of implementing property strategy, property acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant issues and valuations with a track record of managing budgets.
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