Senior Strategy & Asset Manager
Description
- Job grade: Grade 7
- Contract type: Permanent
- Type of role: Property
- Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
- Number of jobs available: 1
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About the job
Job summary
We are MHCLG
The Estates team is a small, multi-disciplinary, multi-site team that works closely together to manage a broad and varied programme of work. The team works at pace, engages confidently with stakeholders, and supports delivery of the Department’s Property Strategy. The Department has embarked on an ambitious Estates and Locations Strategy, including office closures, the expansion of its second headquarters in Wolverhampton, and the relocation of its London office.
This is an opportunity to join the team at a pivotal point and contribute to a significant programme that will shape the future of the Department’s estate. In this role you will help shape and influence new Departmental Property Controls and the Department’s approach to overseeing its Arm’s Length Bodies’ estates.
Job description
As Senior Strategy & Asset Manager, you will ensure the Department’s estates portfolio is actively and effectively managed to support delivery of the Property and Location Strategy. You will lead strategic portfolio planning, support estate rationalisation and expansion, manage key property data, and work closely with internal and external partners to deliver effective property outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering the Department’s Property & Locations Strategy, including identifying opportunities to rationalise, acquire or divest space in line with business needs.
- Shaping and influencing new Departmental Property Controls, and the Department’s approach to overseeing its Arm’s Length Bodies’ estates.
- Leading lease event management across the portfolio, developing options and recommendations at break, expiry and renewal, and instructing the Government Property Agency on resulting transactions.
- Leading the development of business cases for property decisions, from strategic outline to full business case.
- Developing and maintaining strategic portfolio plans (SAMPs) and governance products, including Asset Management Plans, Property Event Pipelines, State of the Estate (SofTE) reporting and future property strategy inputs.
- Management of financial information relating to the portfolio, including monitoring and review of all service charges, rents, rates and other occupation costs in line with agreements and value-for-money expectations.
- Manage property portfolio data, records and financial information, ensuring accurate analysis of occupancy, lease events, costs, billing and payments to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Build and manage effective stakeholder relationships, including with internal corporate functions, Arm’s Length Bodies, the Government Property Agency and other delivery partners.
- Managing responses regarding the portfolio to FOIs, PQs, and specific responses to use of the MHLG seal where necessary.
- Support delivery of sustainability, assurance and team priorities, including mandatory sustainability reporting, compliance activity, and line management or mentoring of Property Team colleagues.
Person specification
- Relevant experience in surveying, property asset management, and/or estates portfolio strategy, preferably holding MRICS/FRICS or working towards professional membership of the RICS through the APC process.
- The ability to support strategic planning, writing business cases, governance products and briefing material.
- Experience developing and delivering property portfolio strategies, or significant parts of them, including strategic planning, governance and briefing products.
- Experience of managing commercial property portfolios, including landlord and occupier requirements, occupation agreements, lease events, risks and opportunities for rationalisation, acquisition or disposal.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, with the confidence to work collaboratively across finance, policy, operations, governance, Arm’s Length Bodies, delivery partners and external stakeholders.
- Strong financial and analytical capability, including the ability to develop, maintain and interpret property data, financial information and performance reporting to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Experience supporting governance, assurance, compliance or sustainability reporting activity across a property portfolio.
- Highly organised, resilient and collaborative, with strong communication skills and experience of managing, mentoring or developing others, with a commitment to inclusion and continuous improvement.
Benefits
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Selection process details
Application and Selection
The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:
Behaviours , Experience , Strengths
Please ensure your CV does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.
Important: Your CV and Cover Letter must be merged into a single document before uploading.
Stage 1: Sift (CV & Cover Letter)
Experience: CV & cover letter (750 words) - setting out why you’re a good fit for the role and how you meet the person spec and essential criteria, drawing on relevant examples where possible.
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Stage 2: Interview
- Behaviours: Leadership, Seeing the Big Picture, Changing & Improving, Communicating & Influencing.
- Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.
Candidates will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation, further details will be provided on invitation to interview.
Sift and Interview Dates
Sifting is envisaged to take place starting 24/11/2026.
Interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.
Disability Confident Scheme (DCS)
We are a Disability Confident employer.
We apply a fair and proportionate interview process for all candidates. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to progress candidates who apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the required minimum selection criteria.
However, where high application volumes are received, progression to interview may be limited to those who best meet the role criteria. In these circumstances, the benchmark required to proceed to interview may be raised for all candidates.
How We Recruit
Find out more about our recruitment processes here.
- Applying
- Sifting
- Interview
- Interview Results & Feedback
- Reserve List
- Near Miss
- Civil Service Grades
- We are a DCS, RIS & GPTWV employer
- Reasonable Adjustments
How to Apply
Find out everything you need to know before applying here.
You must review the following information from the MHCLG Career's Site before submitting your application. This step is essential to ensure your eligibility for the role and that your application is completed correctly.
- Security Clearance Requirements
- Civil Service Nationality Requirements
- Right to Work
- Civil Service Code and Recruitment Principles
- CV Declaration
- Sponsorships
- Salary and Grade
- Existing Civil Servants
- Conflict of Interest
- Location and Flexible Working
- Internal Fraud Database
- Appeals and Complaints
- Fixed Term Appointments for:
- External Candidates
- Existing Civil Servants (Including Loans)
- Secondments
- MHCLG employees
Security Clearance Requirements
National Office: BPSS
London Office: BPSS + CTC
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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
Working for the Civil Service
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).
Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Laura Hawkins
- Email : Laura.Hawkins@communities.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@communities.gov.uk
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