Senior Manager - Estates

Job summary

Closing Date: 07/05/2026

Interviews will take place week commencing 25/05/2026

This is a Fixed Term Contract ending 30/09/2027

Join Homes England’s national Estates Management Team in a senior, influential role that supports delivery of the Government’s housing and regeneration ambitions.

As a Senior Estate Manager, you will provide experienced professional leadership across Homes England’s large and diverse land portfolio, supporting assets from acquisition through to disposal. You will play a critical role in ensuring land and property assets are managed safely, compliantly and proportionately, while supporting delivery teams to meet programme objectives and manage risk effectively.

This is a senior professional role, providing estate management expertise, resilience and continuity across the function. You will work flexibly across assigned sites and portfolios, and will also provide professional cover and support for other Senior Estate Managers during periods of leave, absence or peak demand. In doing so, you will help maintain oversight, consistency and service continuity across the organisation.

Job description

You will lead estate management activity on allocated sites, overseeing health, safety, environmental, legal and financial risks, and ensuring the effective performance of appointed managing agents and consultants. You will work closely with delivery teams, Finance, Legal, Compliance and other corporate colleagues to support strong governance, assurance and value for money.

In addition to core estate management responsibilities, the role provides opportunity to contribute to priority projects and service improvement initiatives, supporting the Head of Estates Management on strategic activity, system improvements and changes to ways of working.

You’ll be joining a highly skilled and experienced national team of 24 estate management professionals, working in an agile, collaborative environment that values professional judgement, consistency of standards and proactive problem‑solving.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of estate management in a complex, nationally significant land portfolio, while operating in a role that combines operational delivery with strategic influence.

Please note: this role requires significant travel across England, including regular site visits and occasional overnight stays, to effectively fulfil the responsibilities of the post.

Person specification

You are an experienced estate or property professional who is comfortable operating at a senior level within a complex land and property portfolio. You bring sound judgement, the ability to balance competing priorities, and a strong commitment to proportionate risk‑based estate management.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

A relevant degree‑level qualification in surveying or a related discipline, with full professional membership of a relevant body (e.g. RICS, CIOB, or similar).

Recent demonstratable leadership experience

Substantial experience in estate or property management, operating at a senior professional level across complex or varied portfolios.

A strong understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation relevant to estate management, with NEBOSH or IOSH qualifications desirable.

Experience managing or overseeing a diverse range of assets, including vacant and tenanted land, high‑risk sites, brownfield land, industrial or commercial property, agricultural land and public realm.

Proven ability to oversee and manage consultants, managing agents and suppliers, ensuring service quality, compliance and value for money.

Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence working alongside delivery teams, local authorities, consultants, tenants and other external partners.

The ability to work flexibly across portfolios, provide professional cover for peers, and contribute positively to team resilience and service continuity.

You are comfortable working in a fast‑moving, mission‑led organisation and enjoy collaborating across disciplines to deliver outcomes. You bring a constructive, solution‑focused mindset and are motivated to help improve systems, processes and professional practice while maintaining a strong focus on statutory responsibilities and organisational risk.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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.

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 : Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk