Senior Property Officer

This post gives you the opportunity to use your experience of of property related matters, including:
Implementing rent reviews for commercially let property, monitor rent arrears and action as appropriate, liaising closely with the accounts department and agents/solicitors as appropriate.
Arrange for new tenancies, licences, leases and renewals and liaise with agents, solicitors and parishes, ensuring that all relevant documentation is prepared, with help from the departmental support officers.

Dealing with all aspects of work related to Trusteeship and ensure compliance with charity obligations and ecclesiastical legislation.
Working on a range of insurance related matters.
Providing support to our small, but busy department.

We offer excellent benefits including a non-contributory pension scheme.

You should have experience of property related matters, including rent reviews, insurance and tenancy management. There will be a variety of work, but it’s important that you are confident with financial information, and legal documents and have excellent organisational and planning skills to support the smooth running of the day to day operation of the department. Good knowledge of Word and Excel is also important.
You will need to have sympathy with the aims of the Christian church, and our objectives in supporting the mission of the people in our parishes through the churches that they worship in, and the properties that support them.

The Property Department of the Diocese of Southwark is responsible for the management of an extensive portfolio of over 380 properties across south London boroughs and part of Surrey. This includes parsonages, investment properties, redundant churches and lettings. It is headed up the Diocesan Surveyor, supported by 2 Deputy Diocesan Surveyors, a Clerk of Works, the Property Manager and a team of Property Administrators.

The Diocese of Southwark is one of the 43 Dioceses of the Church of England. It is a large, complex diocese comprising most of Greater London south of the Thames together with the eastern third of the County of Surrey. It has around 300 parishes with nearly 400 churches, served by 500 clergy ministering to approximately 2,200,000 people. It is one of the largest dioceses in terms of population and parishes and one of the most diverse. Approximately one third of its parishes qualify as Urban Priority Areas (i.e. in the most deprived 10% of parishes in England) mainly in a crescent from Deptford through Peckham, Camberwell, Brixton and Clapham to Battersea. One half of its parishes are suburban, ranging from Woolwich and Lewisham to Wimbledon, Surbiton and Purley. The remaining sixth of parishes may be described as rural but include some of the most affluent 'stockbroker belt' in England.

The Property Department of the Diocese of Southwark is responsible for the management of an extensive portfolio of over 380 properties across south London boroughs and part of Surrey. This includes parsonages, investment properties, redundant churches and lettings.