Full Time Development Consultant/ Chartered Surveyor

Job Title: Full Time Development Consultant/Chartered Surveyor

Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Salary: £45,000 per annum plus benefits

Job type: Full Time

Thomas Lister Limited are highly respected chartered surveyors established in 2002, providing a wide range of development consultancy services principally to public sector clients throughout the Country. Our exciting portfolio of instructions ranges from finding development solutions for individual sites, through to implementation of national investment programmes, along with site disposal and acquisitions. Service provision also includes development appraisal, valuation and delivery advice for schemes across the country, relating to a full range of uses from residential, commercial, retail, leisure and other associated uses.

The company have continued to expand with an enviable track record for delivering the most challenging of projects and a reputation for consistently providing a high-quality, value-added service. Quality of service and our track record is underpinned by providing advice which is realistic, well evidenced and delivery focussed, drawing upon the Company’s expertise spanning 20 years. Advice is provided to support the development of complex schemes, necessitating an understanding of the support required, along with some innovative thinking, in order to unlock major opportunities and objectives of our clients.

Projects we are advising on include town centre regeneration and bringing forward residential sites with capacity for over 10,000 new dwellings. Currently the Company are involved with multiple funding bids for local authorities for schemes throughout the Country.

We have an existing team of eight surveyors and through our continued expansion of clients and instructions need to bolster our existing capacity with additions to our surveying team.

The Role:

We are looking to recruit a new member to the team, to support a large number of exciting new instructions at Development Consultant level. The role is hugely varied and will involve providing a wide range of support for major development programmes throughout the Country, including town and city centre regeneration schemes.

The Development Consultant will report directly to the Directors, Associate Director or Senior Development Consultant as instructed and will work as part of our professional team, providing development consultancy services to a broad range of public and private sector clients.

The Development Consultant will be required to work both individually and part of the Thomas Lister team on a broad range of commissions, along with working as part of multi-disciplinary teams on some of our major instructions.

Whilst the role is located within our Bromsgrove office, our clients and instructions extend across the Country and travel is therefore essential.

Key Skills and ExperienceAs noted above, the role is extremely varied and training will be provided on an on-going basis with a general focus around development appraisal, valuation and development process.

1. Ideally be a qualified Chartered Surveyor with some post qualification experience, although individuals who can demonstrate relevant experience will also be considered.
2. Valuation advice, including preparation of Red Book and statutory valuations, primarily for a range of uses and assets, including development sites.
3. Providing advice, undertaking key tasks and in some cases providing lead role for implementation of the property development process.
4. Preparation of Development and Viability Appraisals for a wide range of development schemes.
5. Marketing and Disposal of development sites for a variety of uses.
6. Feasibility Services including undertaking market assessments, site/options appraisals and development advice.
7. Advice on the delivery of a wide range of schemes which may include land assembly, developer procurement, feasibility and viability assessment of often large and complex schemes.
8. Providing advice on various public sector funding programmes (current and new) for either funding authorities such as local authorities, Homes England and/or Local Enterprise Partnerships or parties wishing to secure public funding.
9. Identifying opportunities for new business/business generation where possible.
10. Maintaining records for budget control and monitoring in terms of time spent on instructions, income generation in context with agreed fee rates on individual instructions.

Benefits:

• Holidays – 25 days per annum plus bank holidays
• RICS subscription, APC training and support – Fees payable by the company
• Bonus Provision – A performance related bonus is paid by the company
• Other Benefits – A health insurance policy and stakeholder pension scheme is made available to all employees

Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK

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