Associate

Your opportunity

Our Property Consultancy team provide strategic advice and guide affordable housing clients through a full spectrum of property consultancy, asset management and compliance related activities. We are recruiting someone seeking to progress into a more senior asset management related role. This role would particularly suit someone from either a housing asset management or consultancy background with experience in large scale stock condition surveys and related strategic housing asset management planning and delivery. If you have asset management database knowledge and related mobile electronic data capture systems that would be very beneficial.

This role will suit someone RICS, CIH, CIOB or other housing related qualified with technical knowledge of construction technology relating to residential accommodation, this role will offer you the opportunity to develop your career in this interesting business area. Up to date knowledge of current asset management challenges, compliance and statutory best practice and regulatory requirements is essential as you will be advising clients.

The role will include the management of both data and survey teams within Property Consultancy and provide clients with strategic and operational support from beginning to completion for a variety of consultancy projects.

Role and Responsibility

The role will be varied and include the following:

• Assisting and preparing fee proposals and tenders
• Attending interviews for tendered projects
• Project set up, QA and team briefing
• Oversight of large scale surveys and co-ordination with the surveyor and data team managers
• Project management and administration
• Preparation of survey outputs including decent homes, cost tables and reporting
• Presenting to client stakeholders
• Report writing and development of action plans
• Provide asset management advice and support
• Drafting of strategic documents including asset management and procurement
• Development of policies, procedures and management plans for clients
• Undertake asset performance modelling (including NPV)
• Developing and prioritising works programmes
• Advising on best practice data management
• Undertaking asset management function reviews and providing critical friend support
• Managing health, safety and compliance reviews and related action plans
• Team management including timesheets, expenses, resource allocation, appraisals and recruitment
• Acting as a point of contact for framework providers
• Business development and marketing activities
• Support and report to the discipline lead/Partner

Experience and Skills Required

To apply for this role you must evidence / possess:

• Appropriate qualifications or experience in strategic asset management such as RICS, CIOB, CIHCM would be highly desirable including technical knowledge of construction technology relating to residential accommodation
• Substantial experience in an affordable housing asset management related role either within a registered provider organisation or consultancy practice
• Detailed understanding of strategic issues facing asset managers including Consumer Standards, ESG, net zero carbon, fire safety, compliance including decent homes, skills shortages, cost of living, inflation etc
• Strong track record within a diverse asset management or property services team with successful delivery of related projects. An ability to inspire, develop and motivate a team creating a collaborative environment
• Proven acumen and professional skills to make important commercial risk-based decisions or recommendations
• Proven experience of managing large scale stock condition surveys including HHSRs and energy data
• A good understanding of best practice guidance related to stock surveys, asset management, decent homes standard and HHSRS will be essential
• Up to date knowledge of compliance and statutory best practice and regulatory requirements will be essential in advising clients
• Being positive and driven to deliver excellent services to clients and achieve team business outcomes
• A naturally innovative mindset providing solutions to client's challenges
• You will be numerate and of an analytical mind and high level of intellect - combining excellent written and oral skills to produce considered and robust reports and recommendations

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They're the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you're hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you're motivated by ingenuity and if you're always aspiring to be the very best.