Job details
Salary: £49,009 to £55,413 per annum (inclusive of allowances
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Location: Civic Centre, Gravesen- d
Status: Fixed-term for 2 year- s
Hours: 37 hours per wee- k
Closing date: 13 October 202- 5
Proposed interview date is 21 October 2025.
The role
Join our Property Team and be part of an innovative and exciting service focusing on targeting and delivering important local developments and ventures; driving revenue income growth and making lasting improvements to the borough.
In your role as an Estate Surveyor within the Strategic Property Team, you will play a key part in the service, ensuring the Councils' property portfolios are future-proofed, opportunities are achieved to increase income and the estates are effectively managed to deliver the Councils' ambitions.
We are looking for a pro-active, high performing, self-motivated and organised individual who can efficiently manage their time, demonstrate initiative, and work under pressure. You will ideally have experience of dealing with a varied commercial and council operational property portfolio, undertaking negotiations and providing evidence-based valuation advice to support new lettings, with the ability to juggle priorities and manage a suite of varied property cases.
The successful candidate will have strong all round communication skills to build positive working relationships within the organisation as well as with external partners, tenants, and other Council departments. The structure of local government could be changing over the next few years, and this may offer opportunities to work across a larger area.
If you would like to join a team making a real difference at this exciting time, we'd love to hear from you.
About you
The ideal candidate will have an extensive working knowledge of valuation and property management, but applications are welcomed from anyone meeting the essential criteria in the person specification appended to the job description,including:
Being a qualified Chartered Surveyor and eligible to register under the RICS Valuers Registration Schem
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Knowledge of Valuation and Property Management, and the Landlord and Tenant Act 195- 4
Excellent communication and negotiation skill- s
Working for Gravesham
We are committed to delivering to the community and working with us means you are part of delivering the level of growth and improvement our community needs and deserves. A range of services have been provided to over 106,000 people and 4,000 businesses.
The Borough of Gravesham, situated in the north west corner of Kent, covers 25,000 acres of the most varied countryside in south east England. Bordered by the River Thames to the north, it is at the heart of Thames Gateway and has a significant role to play in the regeneration of a major government growth area.
Benefits
A generous holiday entitlement, plus paid bank holiday
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Membership to Local Government Pension Scheme - Local Government Pension Scheme
Career development, training opportunities and access to e-learnin- g
Access to eye care vouchers and VDU Glasse- s
External Occupational Health servic- e
Cycle to Work Schem- e
Hybrid working
Access to EAP Services 24/- 7
Free parkin- g
Important Information
Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job description.
Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager, please email your details to Tina Kewgan at where she will arrange to contact you.
How to apply
Please send your CV and covering letter setting out why you are suitable to by 21 October 2025.
If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.
All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email, if you require documentation in different format such as braille or large print, please contact the Human Resources Team on