Deputy Director, Asset Management

Job summary

This position is based Nationally

Job description

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.

Person specification

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Diversity & Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £86,000, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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