Chartered Surveyor – National Technical Lead – Industrial, Crown and Commercial Team

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This role is part of HMRC Valuation Office, formerly known as the Valuation Office Agency. We have recently integrated into HMRC.

HMRC Valuation Office (VO) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. Our work is vital to the collection of over £60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales.

Role Overview

The HMRC Valuation Office (VO) National Valuation Unit (NVU) provides specialist valuation expertise for some of the most highly specialised and complex properties predominantly for Rating purposes. It also provides technical and legal advice across the wider Valuation Office network as well as taking the lead in complex litigation matters.

These roles sit in the Industrial, Crown and Commercial (ICC) team within NVU. The team is responsible for complex, high value and high-profile valuations which include steel works, MOD hereditaments, chemical works, pipelines, sewage works, film and tv studios, factory outlet villages, superstores, large shops and multi-storey car parks.

As a Technical lead you will deliver NDR casework and provide technical advice to colleagues to support consistent valuation practice across the network.

Join a highly skilled team at the forefront of valuation practice. Develop expertise across multiple valuation methods, learn from experienced professionals, and benefit from first-class training and support to accelerate your career.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver complex NDR casework with defined national classes, ensuring valuations are robust, evidence-based and professionally sound.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and support to both NVU caseworkers and colleagues across the wider Valuation Office network.
• Leading Group Pre Challenge Review (GPCR) schemes and other forms of central discussions.
• Providing overall leadership of relevant Class Co-ordination Teams (CCTs).
• Support and drive delivery of the Revaluation Programme, including evidence gathering, analysis, writing Practice Notes and leading central discussions on prior agreement.
• Undertake Peer review and assurance as required on complex, high risk or high profile valuations.
• Provide expert witness and advocacy in complex litigation at Valuation Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and beyond where required
• Act as counsellor/supervisor/buddy to colleagues undertaking professional qualifications.
• Maintain and develop specialist knowledge, including wider economic and commercial environment, sharing professional expertise to support colleagues and promote consistent valuation practice.

Full RICS Professional membership (MRICS or FRICS) or IRRV

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply

If you can meet our person requirements above, we are keen to hear from you. To apply for this post, you must complete an online application with the following:

A CV setting out your Job History, Skills and Experience, Qualifications.

A Personal Statement (maximum 750 words) please outline your suitability for the role. Please pay particular attention to the ‘Essential Requirements’ and ‘Person Specification’ outlined in the advert when providing your answer.

Sift 11-14 September Please note these dates are provisional and may be subject to change.

We will assess you on your CV, Personal Statement, Memberships & Qualifications.

Interviews w/c 28 September Please note these dates are provisional and may be subject to change. These will be confirmed should you be invited to interview.

Interviews are currently taking place Face to Face in our Birmingham location. We will provide more detail if you are shortlisted for interview.

We will assess you on the Behaviours listed in the job description, Technical Skills and a Presentation.

At the interview, the panel can then probe further and ask applicants to provide further specific examples that show how they best demonstrate their skills.

Presentation

You will be required to conduct a 10-minute presentation followed by Q&A . Information on the presentation topic will be provided to you if you are shortlisted for interview. Please note that no IT will be available on the day.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you.

If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: resourcingteamvo@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.

Application Hints and Tips

For more information on Success Profiles, tips on how to write a successful application and find out more about what’s involved in the application process please visit About the application process , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk).

Further Information

Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month (or a proportionate amount of time for colleagues who work less than full time).

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact the UBS Recruitment Team via resourcingteamvo@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Locations

As part of the application process, you will be asked to tell us which of the locations available you can work in. You will be able to specify 2 options. Please be aware that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted to one location, please confirm one location only.

Successful candidates must select one of the locations noted in this advert as their base office and will be expected to undertake regular travel to this location under HMRC hybrid working policy.

Transitional Sites Information

If your location preference is for the following sites, it’s important to note that this is not long-term site for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Civic Centre, Oystermouth Road, Swansea – moving to Sandringham Park, Swansea

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Driving Licence

A full UK Driving Licence is essential to this role. However, if you are considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010 and do not hold a full driving licence, we will consider your application. Please contact resourcingteamvo@hmrc.gov.uk before you start/submit your application with your details to discuss this further.

Terms & Conditions

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Reserve Lists

If we have more successful candidates than available vacancies, we will hold a 6-month reserve list. During that time, we may use the list to fill the same, or similar roles with closely matching essential criteria, without further testing of merit. Any appointments from the Reserve list will be made in strict merit order.

Concerns/Complaints

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the values in the Civil Service Code and/or if you feel the recruitment has been conducted in such a way that conflicts with the Civil Service Commissioner’s Recruitment Principles, you may make a complaint, by contacting the Central Recruitment Team at the following address: resourcingteamvo@hmrc.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.