Company Name: HS2
Location: England
Description As a Utilities Land Rights professional you will have a unique opportunity to apply your technical knowledge and experience to secure circa 6,500 Land Rights through strong engagement, collaboration and strategic process improvements.
This is an ideal platform to develop your career, gaining insight across multiple utility providers including electricity, gas, water and telecommunications.
Whilst contributing fresh ideas and gaining experience of a major infrastructure project, you will have an opportunity to perfect your stakeholder management, negotiation and project management skills, allowing you to put your learning in to action throughout your future career.
As a Senior Utility Land Rights Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for leading on activities required to ensure timely delivery of utility land rights required for the HS2 project.
This scope covers non-contestable and contestable utility diversions for the entire HS2 line of route (both Phase One and Phase Two).
About the role: Responsible for overseeing the more complex and challenging utility land right cases on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of land and property; spanning cities and large areas of rural land on behalf of the Utilities Lead Implement the strategy for delivering this significant programme, as well as helping to ensure the programme runs to time whilst maintaining HS2's reputation Implementation and subsequent improvement of processes designed to facilitate the securing of utility land rights in an efficient and evolving manner with focus on continual improvement You will drive forward highly complex negotiations and manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders Ensure all consideration sums are negotiated to settlement within governance, industry guidelines and budget parameters so that land rights are complete at the right time for the project Proactively build relationships with key individuals across a range of organisations; utility companies, early works contractors, main works civils contractors and the legal and land and property departments within those organisations, enabling the negotiation process to be carried out effectively Provide relevant technical advice to the various internal departments (including Delivery, Commercial Agreements, Petition Management, Legal and other teams within Land and Property) to inform decision making Collaborate and communicate with other members of the property acquisition management team to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2 Instruction and management of external suppliers Line Management responsibilities for direct reports.
Qualifications About You: Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way Stakeholder management Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information Skill in developing public facing communications Capability in project management techniques Report writing skills and data compilation and analysis IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems In-depth understanding of the utility and telecommunications industries An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided).
Experience of working in or with the utilities sector is preferable Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain 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.
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.
Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
About Us: High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network.
As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent.
We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation.
Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
This is an ideal platform to develop your career, gaining insight across multiple utility providers including electricity, gas, water and telecommunications.
Whilst contributing fresh ideas and gaining experience of a major infrastructure project, you will have an opportunity to perfect your stakeholder management, negotiation and project management skills, allowing you to put your learning in to action throughout your future career.
As a Senior Utility Land Rights Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for leading on activities required to ensure timely delivery of utility land rights required for the HS2 project.
This scope covers non-contestable and contestable utility diversions for the entire HS2 line of route (both Phase One and Phase Two).
About the role: Responsible for overseeing the more complex and challenging utility land right cases on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of land and property; spanning cities and large areas of rural land on behalf of the Utilities Lead Implement the strategy for delivering this significant programme, as well as helping to ensure the programme runs to time whilst maintaining HS2's reputation Implementation and subsequent improvement of processes designed to facilitate the securing of utility land rights in an efficient and evolving manner with focus on continual improvement You will drive forward highly complex negotiations and manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders Ensure all consideration sums are negotiated to settlement within governance, industry guidelines and budget parameters so that land rights are complete at the right time for the project Proactively build relationships with key individuals across a range of organisations; utility companies, early works contractors, main works civils contractors and the legal and land and property departments within those organisations, enabling the negotiation process to be carried out effectively Provide relevant technical advice to the various internal departments (including Delivery, Commercial Agreements, Petition Management, Legal and other teams within Land and Property) to inform decision making Collaborate and communicate with other members of the property acquisition management team to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2 Instruction and management of external suppliers Line Management responsibilities for direct reports.
Qualifications About You: Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way Stakeholder management Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information Skill in developing public facing communications Capability in project management techniques Report writing skills and data compilation and analysis IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems In-depth understanding of the utility and telecommunications industries An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided).
Experience of working in or with the utilities sector is preferable Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain 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.
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.
Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
About Us: High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network.
As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent.
We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation.
Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
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