Estates Officer Career

Work Environment:

As an estates officer, you may be liable for the supervision of land as well as property related to limited councils and communal bodies such as health authorities.

Your responsibilities would usually consist of:

• Checking and managing preservation and maintenance
• Ensuring that all the lands and properties are being used for their proposed plans
• Dealing with occupancy applications and keeping all the occupancy records and agreements
• Deciding and reviewing rents

• Assessing the prospective of land together short- as well as long-term upcoming use
• Keeping and maintaining returns on investments
• Finding interested parties and negotiating with property owners regarding obligatory purchase or acquire by legal agreement
• Suggesting about land and property purchase issues
• Meetings with other departments and organizations about land issues
• Generating reports about financial and statistical analysis
• Maintaining up to date with land executive and ecological issues

Qualification, Education and Experience:

The majority employers would be expecting you to have at least six GCSE's A-C, probably A levels or comparable, and an HNC in housing or related subject. You might need measure in surveying or housing management, and lots of estates officers are much experienced procedural or chartered surveyors.

You could be eligible as a surveyor in the course of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

To meet the criteria through RICS you could do with one of the following:

• A RICS certified three- or four-year full-time degree in surveying
• A RICS certified four-year sandwich degree in a relevant subject including one year's work experience
• Service in a surveyor's organization even as studying for a RICS certified degree by block release, day release or distance learning

You may do certified courses by distance learning through the College of Estate Management.

You can do a postgraduate conversion course, if your degree is not in an applicable subject.

To become certified through the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) you may need an accredited honors degree.

See the RICS and the CIO websites for more details.

Visit the Royal Institution of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV) website for details of other relevant courses.

Training Details:

You could work towards NVQ Level 4 in Land, Housing or Property Management, as an estates officer.

If you are having an RICS or CIOB certified degree you could work towards chartered surveyor status by gaining further knowledge and judgment.

During the RICS you should have to complete an Assessment of Professional Competence (APC). This includes:

• Finding service and carrying out at least two years' convenient training and experience
• A Practical assessment and interview.

If you have finished a credited industrialized training year as part of a degree course this would count towards the two-year requirement.

To become certified through the CIOB, you might require either two years' relevant experience or a CIOB examination pass.

Skills and knowledge:

• Communication, presentation and organizational skills
• Good analytical and math skills
• Judgment and peacekeeping
• Negotiating skills
• The capability to analyze written and statistical information
• Excellent observational skills for investigative property, official papers and information
• The capability to work single as well as in a team and bring together the work of others
• Good computer skills
• The capability to work under pressure.

• Estates officers can earn between $18,000 and $26,000 a year in local government.
• Experienced officers be able to earn from $32,500 to around $35,000.

Income can be different considerably depending on qualifications, experience and responsibilities.

Working Conditions:

You may work approximately 36 hours a week. This might consist of some evenings for team work and meetings. Part-time employment will also be available.

You would be work typically in the office, but also travel to attend meetings and visit sites.

Different Opportunities:

You may generally work for confined authorities, but can also come across employment with other organizations such as development corporations and health authorities. As additional local authorities are toning out much of the work of their estate departments, you might also be engaged in the private sector.

Current openings are published in the local newspapers, press, through staffing agencies and on websites such as LG Jobs and NHS Jobs.

You are apt to have superior promotion projection in larger departments in local authorities and other government organizations - you might be able to growth to estates administrator or focus in a particular area of the work.

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