Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Croydon, London (region), CR0 2AQ : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, HU2 8JN : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE3 5DR : Nottingham, East Midlands (England), NG2 1AW : Peterborough, East of England, PE2 8YY : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS : Warton, North West England, PR4 1TE : Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4NT
Job summary
Every property transaction, mortgage and infrastructure development in England and Wales depends on the integrity of HM Land Registry’s data and the effectiveness of the wider property system. HM Land Registry (HMLR) is entering a pivotal phase: delivering a step change in customer outcomes by reducing friction, increasing speed and improving certainty across the home buying and selling process.
Our ambition is to make land and property transactions faster, simpler and more predictable for customers, while leading the transition to a fully digital, data‑driven property market that supports economic growth, sustainability and public confidence, including through greater use of AI and advanced digital techniques to automate and speed up transactions.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will set a bold pace of change challenging established ways of working within HMLR and across the wider system. They will unite the organisation behind a clear, customer-focused purpose, delivering operational excellence today while fundamentally reshaping how the system works for customers tomorrow.
This is a high-impact public leadership role. The CEO will lead a major transformation agenda while embedding a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that HMLR delivers sustained, measurable improvements in customer outcomes, not just one-off change.
The CEO will be a visible and trusted leader across HMLR’s 7,000-strong workforce and externally with ministers, senior officials, and the property market. They will lead not only the organisation, but influence and challenge the wider ecosystem including conveyancers, lenders, developers and local authorities to improve performance, accountability and outcomes for customers.
In line with the Land Registration Act 2002 the successful applicant will also be appointed to the role of Chief Land Registrar.
This role requires a leader who will deliver a step change in outcomes, not incremental improvement – simplifying the system, improving accountability and ensuring that customers experience faster, more certain and more transparent property transactions.
* Providing inspiring, values-driven leadership to a large, diverse and dispersed workforce.
* Leading delivery of a multi-year digital transformation programme to modernise land and property transactions.
* Strengthening relationships with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Treasury, local authorities, lenders and the property industry to accelerate housing delivery and market confidence.
* Taking ownership of complex decisions and upholding rigorous standards of public accountability.
* Leading the land and property ecosystem as a whole, working with conveyancers, lenders, developers and local authorities to simplify processes, remove duplication, and improve performance while holding partners to account for delivering better, faster and more transparent outcomes for customers.
Person specification
For more information about the role and the full job description and person specification, please see the Candidate Pack which is attached to the advert on Civil Services Jobs.
We highly value diversity in all its forms and welcome applications from all sections of society.
HM Land Registry has appointed executive search specialists Gatenby Sanderson to support us with this appointment. For further information about the role and to apply, please click the link below.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. DCS applicants who meet the minimum criteria at shortlisting may be invited to attend an interview. There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS applicants that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, when we receive high number of applications. In these circumstances we may select the DCS applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the job, rather than all of those that meet the minimum criteria, as we would do for non-disabled applicants.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa. You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.
Remuneration for this role is expected to be up to £160k per annum.
For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply. If appointed on promotion, you will be appointed to the salary band minimum for SCSPB2 – Director, or receive a 10% uplift on your existing salary, whichever is greater. Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing salary. Standard pay rules apply for existing civil servants.
Please note that, if successful, any existing specialist allowances you currently receive will not automatically transfer to or be retained in this role.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
Contact point for applicants
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