Lewes District Council and Eastbourne Borough Council
Base: Anticipated that travel to site may be required up to 1 day a week. Homeworking for the remainder of the time.
Estate Surveyor
Property and Asset Management
Permanent
37 hours a week
Grade Band: E/F Salary £36,363 - £46,142 depending on experience
Join our Property and Asset Management 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 our towns and villages.
In your role as an Estate Surveyor within the 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 is able to efficiently manage their time, demonstrate initiative, and work under pressure. You will 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.
Closing date: 12 noon 6 October 2025
Interviews: 23 October 2025
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £36,363.00-£46,142.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Flexitime
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Eastbourne, BN21 4UG