Deputy Director, Asset Management

This position is based Nationally

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional Real Estate Management expert to direct the Asset Management team, acting as an internal centre of real estate and legal knowledge, providing the intelligent customer function to external property and legal consultants.

The Deputy Director, Asset Management will act as SRO for those outsourced contracts, responsible for their appointment, performance, conduct and budget lines, to enable HMCTS to have rapid access to a comprehensive range of expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for HMCTS's Asset Management function, leading a specialist team and ensuring the estate supports the effective delivery of court and tribunal services.
• Develop and maintain the long-term asset management strategy for the HMCTS estate, ensuring property assets are optimised, legally secure, financially sustainable and aligned to organisational priorities.
• Lead the management of HMCTS's property interests across the estate, overseeing lease renewals, rent reviews, acquisitions, disposals, occupation planning, landlord and tenant matters, and other significant property transactions, whilst managing associated risks including lease expiries, security of tenure, landlord disputes and critical occupancy requirements.
• Lead the provision of asset intelligence, estate analysis and occupancy planning to inform investment decisions, business cases, estate strategy and future service requirements.
• Act as HMCTS's senior asset management adviser, providing expert advice to senior leaders on property strategy, leasehold interests, estate performance and value-for-money opportunities.
• Build and maintain effective relationships across HMCTS, including Estate Strategy, Facilities Management, Capital Projects and Operational teams, as well as the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, wider government and the property sector, to ensure asset management supports strategic objectives, investment priorities and best practice.
• Oversee the governance, performance reporting and financial management arrangements for the estate portfolio, including accountability for rents, rates and estate-related liabilities, ensuring robust data, compliance and decision-making.
• Represent HMCTS at senior internal and external forums, influencing stakeholders and championing the role of the estate as a critical enabler of justice delivery.
• Lead the commissioning and performance management of external property advisers, agents and consultants, ensuring HMCTS has access to high-quality specialist expertise, delivers value for money and maintains effective oversight of supplier performance and delivery.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience leading and developing high-performing teams, setting strategic direction and delivering results through others in a complex organisational environment.
• Extensive experience of strategic asset management and corporate real estate portfolio management, including the development and implementation of asset or portfolio strategies that align property assets with current and future organisational needs.
• A proven track record of influencing, negotiating and building credibility with senior stakeholders, professional advisers and external partners, achieving successful outcomes in complex and politically sensitive environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex property transactions and managing property portfolios, including leasehold and freehold interests, acquisitions, disposals, lease events and associated risk management.
• Strong commercial, financial and analytical judgement, including experience using asset, occupancy and financial data to inform strategic decision-making, optimise value for money, and oversee the effective use of external advisers and consultants.

Qualifications:

• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS/FRICS), or holder of an equivalent relevant professional qualification.

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

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