Location- Birmingham.
Base salary: £41,092 pa to c.£48,344pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
This is a SECONDMENT opportunity until 31.07.2027 after which in some circumstances the role may become a permanent position.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a Land Assembly Manager at HS2 you will be required to manage land assembly operations across the contract area to ensure consistency of process and outputs necessary to enable entry to land in accordance with the construction programme through the implementation of compulsory purchase powers or by agreement.
About the role:
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
- Responsible for managing the implementation of Act powers to enable entry to, possession of and/or acquisition of land in accordance with an agreed construction programme to avoid any delays to commencement of construction and associated costs;
- Manage the quality of Phase One (and Two) PSC data and plan submissions, identify areas requiring improvement and work with the PSC to implement performance improvement; provision of monthly KPI measurements on PSC performance;
- Coordinate regular FLAB workshops and actively seek input from Area team, Construction/Utilities leads, Acquisitions, Legal and ILA;
- Prepare documentation for Department for Transport approval of all CPO notices (GVD and Notice to Treat), including signing and sealing of plans and orders for each work package area in turn;
- Maintain a register of all notices prepared and served for the contract area;
- Ensure any undertakings & assurances or relevant commitments relating to notice of entry or compulsory purchase are complied with for the contract area;
- Manage notice preparation using IT workflow based systems, supported by manual processes where necessary to address non-standard requirements or late interests in land;
- Working closely with the DfT’s Independent Land Advisor (ILA) and Legal, secure approval for service of notices in accordance with the established governance processes.
About You:
Skills:
- Programme management skills and the ability to ensure deliverables are provided within agreed timeframe, cost and quality criteria;
- Data management skills, including analysis and assurance of referencing data and spatial information;
- Ability to produce information with ability to present it to a variety of stakeholders;
- Ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders to agree requirements.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of land referencing, assembly, registration and titles management including requirements for infrastructure schemes underpinned by differing legislative procedures (e.g. Hybrid Bill, Transport & Works Act Order, Development Consent Order, Compulsory Purchase Order);
- Understanding and experience of land assembly activities and compulsory purchase including established industry practices;
- Understanding of land powers contained in differing legislative procedures underpinning infrastructure schemes (e.g. Hybrid Bill, Transport & Works Act Order, Development Consent Order, Compulsory Purchase Order).
Type of experience:
- Experience of land referencing and assembly;
- Experience of compiling and analysing data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools;
- Experience of operating within a project/programme environment;
- Experience of managing external suppliers including setting clear deliverables and KPIs;
- Experience of developing effective relationships and delivering complex projects to challenging timescales.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
