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The role

About Southwark:

Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] today.

The Role:

Using your valuation and development appraisal expertise, you will have responsibility within the Team for reviewing financial viability assessments submitted with planning applications, with an emphasis on smaller scale and homeowner developments.

Following adoption of the new Southwark Plan in February this year, planning applications for all schemes are required to provide, subject to viability, the maximum amount of social rented and intermediate homes or a financial contribution.

You will be responsible for agreeing timescales and delivering a professional valuation service to planning colleagues, in accordance with the requirements of the planning application process.

The successful candidate will be based in the Corporate Property Team. The Team support the Head of Property in ensuring the Council’s operational estate is sufficient to meet the operational and service delivery objectives of the Council.

Whilst principally dealing with viability assessments, the successful candidate will also have the opportunity to be involved with acquisitions, disposals, and the provision of valuations and property advice across the broad range of the property portfolio.

About You:

Either an RICS registered valuer, or have a relevant qualification and be eligible to achieve RICS professional qualification and have extensive experience in dealing with development appraisals and valuing property assets for a variety of purposes. You will be familiar with the issues specifically affecting planning development viability.

Additional Information:

• Qualifications: RICS registered valuer or a relevant qualification and be eligible to achieve Membership status of the RICS
• Full time

Benefits and more information

https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/

Recruitment timetable

Application Closing date: 11:59 pm on 12/01/2023

Interview date: Late Jan/Early Feb 2023

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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