Senior Portfolio Options Assessor
Salary: £53,470 – £56,000
Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Ealing office base with Hybrid working
About us
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.
Role overview
We’re searching for a Senior Portfolio Options Assessor to join our friendly Asset team at A2Dominion. The Senior Portfolio Options Assessor will lead in carrying out “deeper dive” investigations into assets or groups of assets highlighted as performing poorly and will devise fully worked up options appraisals proposing actions to optimise performance.
Reporting into the Asset Appraisal Manager, the Senior Portfolio Options Assessor will also assist with planning and managing business priorities, ensuring the asset portfolio delivers against the standards set both internally and externally, delivering outstanding performance from a commercial, strategic and social perspective.
Key responsibilities:
- To carry out full property performance assessments and options appraisals as directed by the Asset Appraisal Manager
- Devise and implement a robust options appraisal process with the Asset Appraisal Manager that delivers optimisation options to deliver the Asset Management Strategy
- Develop a detailed understanding of both financial and non-financial areas of asset performance across the different markets within the A2Dominion asset portfolio
- Ability to deliver clear and concise written reports on portfolio performance and intervention options for consideration by senior management within the business
- Able to capture and analyse large volumes of data from multiple internal and external sources
- Assist in the development and implementation of tools that enable the accurate ongoing relative assessment of property performance cognisant of the differing drivers, standards and outcomes required for A2Dominion’s varied markets
- Direction and management of external consultants and non-line report internal resources in the delivery of assessment and options appraisals
- Engagement with internal governance groups and other stakeholder groups including residents in relation to options appraisals and recommendations for actions
- The development of tactical asset management plans in conjunction with the Asset Appraisal Manager, Head of Asset Investment and Strategy and regional staff and ensuring they meet the aspirations of the Group Asset Management Strategy
- To prepare reports for property disposal and investment planning to ensure that appropriate and informed asset management decisions regarding the stock are taken to ensure the best use of resources
- To assist in the preparation of Asset Management board papers
- Responsible for regular formal and informal consultation with peers across other regions to maximise opportunities for shared learning, benchmarking and best practice
More about you:
For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths & English (Grades A* – C)
- Strong commercially effective property portfolio management acumen
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills allied with the ability to develop strong alliances with colleagues from within Property Services, across the organisation and with external stakeholders
- Experience of appraising property opportunities
- Previous experience of relevant large scale property investment options appraisal
- Ability to understand, organise and manipulate systems that contain large volumes of data
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
· 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
· Up to 8% contributory pension
· Flexible working
· Investment in your learning and development.
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
· actively look to attract and recruit people with disabilities
· provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
· offer an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job
· be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
· make reasonable adjustments as required
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk.
A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer.
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
