Land Access Manager

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Job Description

Location - Birmingham

Salary - Base salary: £36,300 pa to c.£45,350 pa 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.

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.

About the role:

• Formal instruction and coordination of PSC and SLS activities to ensure access to technical stakeholder's land is secured in time for survey activity (for ecological, noise, environmental and ground investigation assessments) to proceed in accordance with agreed programmes;
• Challenge the PSC scope for access requests to ensure access sought is proportionate and defensible to ensure cost effectiveness of the survey programme;
• Prioritise the PSC scope for access to ensure sites that are required to be surveyed are secured where possible.
• Manage access requests for key technical stakeholders (DfT, NRIL, TfL/LUL, HE, CRT, EA, utilities); provide single point of contact across HS2 for access to land owned by key technical stakeholders to ensure access requests are coordinated, costs managed, and disruption to stakeholders kept to a minimum;
• Manage and reconcile the Environmental and GI survey scope datasets to ensure that landowners are provided with accurate information via the PSC, to assist in securing agreement;
• Manage preparation and assurance of notices of entry under Bill powers, post-Royal Assent;
• Support the assurance of PSC referencing deliverables to enable programme deadlines to be achieved;
• Assure the access data provided by PSC as part of the upload process to LRdb, eB and gViewer;
• As part of the Land Assembly Team, respond to enquiries from within HS2 and from external stakeholders on access and land ownership matters in a timely manner;
• Co-ordinate with Construction and project teams in relation to access requirements for Ground investigation surveys, including sense check of borehole locations, advance notice and collating access taken for survey payment generation, and location/negotiation of sites for secure works compounds;
• Negotiate and finalise disturbance, crop loss and reinstatement claims where received from external landowners in a transparent, fair, and equitable manner consistent with the use of public money;
• Liaise with Agents and landowners where survey refusals are received to facilitate access onto site;
• Liaise closely with the stakeholder engagement teams in relation to the Tier escalation process to negotiate site access and overcome landowners' issues through by consultation;
• 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.

About You:

Skills:

• Negotiations skills and an understanding of property issues arising from access for surveys in both rural and urban locations;
• Ability to produce documents and reports and present to a variety of stakeholders, with ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders to agree requirements;
• Programme management skills and the ability to ensure deliverables are provided within agreed timeframe, cost, and quality criteria.

Knowledge:

• Understanding of land powers available through the differing legislative procedures underpinning infrastructure schemes (e.g. Hybrid Bill, Transport & Works Act Order, Development Consent Order, Compulsory Purchase Order);
• Understanding of compulsory purchase powers including relevant statutes and precedents / established industry practices
• Professional membership of relevant institution (RICS, CAAV, RTPI etc)

Type of experience:

• Experience of engaging with landowners over access for infrastructure schemes;
• Experience of assessing claims for loss (crop loss, reinstatement, etc);
• 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;
• Experience in management of infrastructure and/or construction programmes;
• Experience in all aspects of surveying and assessment

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. 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.

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.

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

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.