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Rural Estates Manager
Job Posted: 2 hours ago
Salary: £ 400 - 500 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Rural Estates Manager :
The role leads a team managing the Council’s 14,000-hectare rural estate, ensuring strategic, financial, and environmental performance. Responsibilities include overseeing operations, delivering budgets, advising stakeholders, driving development opportunities, and supporting climate and biodiversity goals, while maintaining accurate property records and maximising value from the estate’s £245 million assets and £6 million annual revenue.
Main accountabilities
To lead the rural team who provide day to day operational management of the Council’s rural estate, involving landlord and tenant work, property maintenance, a capital building programme, environmental management, renewable energy, and climate change.
To lead the rural team in providing high quality professional advice and reports to internal partners, senior management, Council Members, auditors, and the public as required on rural asset management matters and represent the Council at a national and local level.
To lead the strategic development of the Council’s Rural Estate, preparing the Council’s Rural Asset Management Strategy and Farm Management Plans and their implementation and ongoing review.
To lead the delivery of revenue and capital budgets on target, maximising rent collected and maximising debt recovery and the collection of service charges and achieving savings and efficiencies targets.
To provide direct line management to the Rural Estate Management team, with technical and pastoral advice and guidance, and where appropriate, seconded or matrix managed employees within customers’ organisations.
Working with the Strategic Asset Manager, identify and implement planning and development opportunities which will provide better buildings and generate financial returns for the Council, and which together will improve services for the public.
Oversee the team who together act as an intelligent client-side advisor, procuring and overseeing specialist asset management advisors to ensure that the Council receives the best property advice and ensure the best service delivery for the public.
To lead complex negotiations with public and private sector organisations to deliver property acquisitions, disposals, and other contracts within appropriate timescales and in line with best consideration requirements, contributing to the delivery of annual capital receipts, revenue, and climate change targets.
To ensure that the Council’s rural estate GIS maps, plans and property databases and records are up to date and accurateBefore You Apply
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