Lease Hold Property Manager Projects

Job Description

Lease hold Property Manager/Projects - (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: up to end of March 2025

Contracting Authority: DWP Core

Location: Hybrid - 2 days a week in the nearest DWP hub, please note if additional travel is required this will be expensed / Remote Working

Working to the Head of Leasehold the Leasehold Mobilisation Manager, the candidate will work closely with others in the leasehold team and across DWP Estates either on the delivery of several projects, to free up others to work on mobilisation activities, or directly on supplier mobilisation activities. Activities could include lease acquisitions, divestments, lease renewals, regears, landlord consents, and day-to-day estate management work.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

As a Lease hold Property Manager your main responsibilities will be

• To support the Leasehold team in the management of a number of programmes or projects including:
• Property transactions for example: acquisitions and disposals, lease regears and landlords' consents,
• Lease event management for example: Rent reviews & lease renewals,
• Day to day estate management duties to ensure compliance with lease obligations.
• Providing accurate annual and monthly forecasts for projects under their management
• Commercial assurance for property transactions and provide recommendations to governance forums where required,
• Instruction and management of third-party supplier partners
• Support the mobilisation of new suppliers specifically in areas that affect leasehold activities and processes,
• Support regular audits into accuracy of lease data, governance reports and supplier management reporting
• To keep abreast of wider Government property initiatives and other government departments strategic intentions, to determine their impact on the DWP Estate
• To ensure consistency in approach and continuous improvement by regularly reviewing methodology, process, and approach, identifying lessons learned and sharing knowledge as and when required.

Essential Skills

• Extensive experience in commercial property management gained within the property function of a large organisation
• Experienced in lease and re gear negotiation
• A successful track record of managing complex and high value estate management transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, lease renewals, re gears and rent reviews
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including experience in presenting to senior governance forums
• Stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Experienced in instructing, managing and leading real estate suppliers
• Strong self starter

Desirable Skills

• MRICS qualification would be highly beneficial
• Experience of working across Public Sector [Government and/or Local Authorities]
• Experience of creating an inclusive, high-performance team, taking ownership of issues and results

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with lincoln.freeman@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP Core is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.