DIO - Senior Surveyor - Major Disposal Programmes

If you are a suitably qualified property professional who would be interested in working client-side with Military colleagues on one of the largest estates in the country and/or across an extensive overseas portfolio, and you are motivated by the prospect of working on a diverse range of exciting, interesting and often-challenging projects of National interest in support of the UK Defence Mission, then the DIO Estates Team is for you!
The Role
The Major Projects team is part of the Estates Acquisitions & Disposals family. The team are responsible for defining, and delivering, the future use and redevelopment of large surplus MoD sites and determining the eventual disposal strategy for them. Involvement ranges from early assessment work to MoD closure and vacation, through to final freehold disposal. Often former major barracks and airfields the team promote sites through the town planning process, working in close engagement with regional and local stakeholders. Involvement continues through all stages of design into delivery and can include procuring and setting up development management agreements with industry partners and investors. From thereon in there is a role in scrutinising all aspects of delivery and disposal, and which sees these ex-MoD sites comprehensively redeveloped to provide new homes, community facilities, schools, leisure, and employment land.
These are exciting opportunities to join our nationwide network of highly skilled Surveyors and we are looking for motivated suitability qualified property professionals to join and lead established teams, working closely with military and civilian colleges delivering exciting, varied estate activities, programmes, and subject matter professional advice.
The MOD Estate is wide and varied, on this unique Estate variety is certain and no 2 days will be the same! The breadth of work on offer is exceptional with opportunities to get involved in a wide range of projects across the UK to enable Defence capability.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week., The Senior Surveyor role oversees and manages a wide range of programmes and services alongside the provision of subject matter expert advice and communications with all key stakeholders.
The work is extremely varied and wide ranging, but key activities for the role includes:
+ Working closely with private sector partners on large scale regeneration projects.
+ Scrutinising proposals across all areas of project delivery including annual business plans, contract performance, interim third-party use, greenspace management, town and country planning submissions and disposal strategies.
+ Concluding sale and purchase and other transactional agreements.
+ Contributing and reporting within business area and wider including DIO Board and Ministers.
+ External communications and liaison with key stakeholders.
Location
This role has regional responsibilities within Southern areas of England. DIO Estates main office locations within this area are Andover, Portsmouth, and Sandhurst, with smaller DIO sites spread throughout the regions. Alongside the advertised locations, other DIO locations may be offered.
We are offering a flexible base location(s) for this role, and we will endeavour to make one of our DIO Offices your duty station. All sites will be considered whilst ensuring the location of the successful candidate can still meet the regional responsibilities, business and travel requirements of the role. Work location will be agreed once the successful candidate has been selected. Please confirm your location on your application form.
The successful candidate will be expected to regularly attend their chosen office location and will involve weekly attendance to the office for face-to-face meetings and collaboration. The role will involve regular travel to sites within their region and occasionally UK wide for meetings and/or site inspections.
If travelling outside your base location for duty reasons, you will have access to flights, hire cars, rail tickets and overnight accommodation. You can also claim 45 pence per mile should you choose to use your own vehicle for business travel.
Travel may be required to carry out site visits where you may go on MOD Establishments, residential estates, building sites, agricultural land, training areas and firing ranges etc.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
DIO Business Area – Estates
The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha). This is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas.
Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) supporting infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safeguard, and dispose of Defence real estate. Our unique customer knowledge and insight of the Defence Estate enables our in-house team of property professionals to provide in-depth advice to our Military customers.
The Team
Acquisitions and Disposals (A&D) is the in-house Estates team responsible for disposing of all surplus MOD land and property to realise capital receipts for re-investment in the retained MOD estate. The team manages an extensive pipeline of sites for disposal supporting major infrastructure programmes. The team also acquire land and property for MOD projects when required.
The Major Projects Team sit within A&D and have a somewhat unique position and opportunity of redefining former major barracks and airfields into large new civilian communities. The team promote the former MOD sites through the entire town planning process, working in close engagement with regional and local stakeholders to design large mixed use redevelopment schemes that are of local and regional significance. The schemes provide new homes, community facilities, schools, leisure and employment land, delivered over a period of 10-15 years. The team are able to work on these sites through all stages of design and into delivery, procuring and setting up development management agreements with industry partners and investors and playing a first-hand role in all aspects of delivery. Dealing with Property matters, and Estates is the backbone of what we do, but delivering legacy and long-term regeneration value is what drives us and is the core of what we
really do., We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Technical: Government Property Profession Career Framework: 1: Property Professional Expertise - Practitioner Level.
+ Technical: Government Property Profession Career Framework: 3: Stakeholder Engagement - Practitioner level., Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.
At application you will be assessed against the following, • CV including Job History, Full Qualification Details and Previous Skills & Experience: Please ensure that you explain all skills and experience that are relevant to the advertised roles as detailed within the Essential Experience within the personal specification section of the advert.
At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:
Technical:
+ Government Property Profession Career Framework:
- 1: Property Professional Expertise – Practitioner Level
- 3: Stakeholder Engagement - Practitioner level
We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.
Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing: 30th September 2024.
Interviews are currently taking place via Face to Face or remotely through a digital platform, this will be confirmed with the successful candidates who are invited to an interview and will be conducted week commencing: 7th October 2024.
A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.
To assist with your application please find attached/ linked below:
1. DIO Candidate Information Guide
2. GPP Career Framework
For help and support with your application check out our Civil Service Careers Homepage and the How to Apply section.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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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
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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.

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Relevant, suitable experience and knowledge at an appropriate level a wide range of property disciplines including:
+ Property and Land transaction, including legal contracts and sale agreements.
+ Landlord & Tenant
+ Town Planning
Desirable Experience:
+ Supplier and Contract Management
+ Property Valuation
+ Development Appraisals
+ Residential/Commercial Development Drivers
+ Public/Private Sector relationships
+ Budget Management
+ Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Essential Licence: Full Driving Licence: Post holders will be required to travel to the sites covered by the post on a regular basis and some sites are difficult to access via public transport., Essential Qualification: RICS accredited Degree OR qualification, Essential Membership: Full membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS/FRICS)

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ Learning and development tailored to your role
+ An environment with flexible working options
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
+ 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service.
+ Successful candidates will become members of the Government Property Profession, with benefits including opportunities for Government and industry led CPD events; access to a diverse community of property professionals across government for sharing knowledge and ideas; and a comprehensive career framework and learning and development curriculum to support your career journey.
To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.