Valuation Work Placement Surveyor

Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Canary Wharf, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Colchester, Croydon, Durham, Eastbourne, Exeter, Folkestone, Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Southampton, St Austell, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Wembley, Wrexham.

Job summary

Do you have a passion for public and customer services and want to make a difference? If so, we would like to hear from you.

VOA values property for tax purposes. These taxes fund vital public services like schools, hospitals and welfare so you would be making a real difference to peoples' lives.

We are an executive agency of HMRC with around 4,000 people and currently need people to provide their skills and attributes in our Valuation Work Placement Surveyor roles.

Job description

We currently have vacancies on our work placement programme, suitable for those who are studying a RICS accredited degree on the Valuation Pathway with an agreed work-based placement year (sandwich year) as part of their degree. The placement will commence in either September or October 2023.

We're responsible for valuing every commercial and domestic property in England and Wales. Our work ensures that people across the country pay the correct taxes for their property through council tax or business rates and receive the right financial support.

We have around 4,000 people working all over the country. From customer support specialists to valuation experts - our employees are all equally valued and given the opportunity to develop, thrive and most importantly, be themselves. We're also one of the largest employers of chartered surveyors in the UK.

We'd like to hear from you:

• If you are currently studying on a RICS-accredited Real Estate, or Valuation sandwich degree course, and
• Your degree is deemed suitable for the RICS Valuation Pathway (denoted by the abbreviation '(VAL)' in the RICS Accredited Course Listing

For further information about the role; please refer to the attached candidate pack at the bottom of the advert.

If you are interested in applying we will be holding a live vacancy call which you are welcome to join to hear more about the agency and our graduate offer. Dates and times of the calls will be shared on our social media platforms so please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Person specification

Full details of the person specification and eligibility requirements are contained within the candidate pack which can be found at the bottom of the advert.

Essential Requirements

• Currently studying a RICS accredited Valuation Pathway undergraduate or Masters level degree such as Real Estate or Property with an agreed work-based placement year (sandwich year) as part of their degree.
• We will expect students to be undertaking a degree which involves valuation modules, given the nature of the work and experience we can provide.
• Ideally your degree should be deemed 'most likely' to be suitable for Valuation pathway by the RICS as denoted by the abbreviation '(VAL)' in the RICS Accredited Course Listing
• The ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Sound analytical skills and good judgement to inform their decisions or when providing opinions or advice to others.
• As part of your application there will be three role specific questions that you must complete to evidence your academic alignment.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Developing Self and Others

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical questions suitable to qualification and role will also be asked at interview.

Benefits

We offer a range of flexible working options, a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' service and a pension scheme. Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 4 weeks at full pay.

The most popular parts of our reward package include:

• Pay - in the few years, we have increased both the minimum and maximum pay points for everyone in the VOA.
• Pension - we make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 26% of their salary.
• Working hours and location flexibility - everyone in the VOA has some opportunity to work from home, and we support a full range of flexible working options including part time, part year, compressed hours and job shares.
• Family friendly policies - including four weeks of paid paternity leave.
• Personal support - we offer extensive special leave to help balance your life and work commitments, a variety of non-financial rewards (including a Cycle to Work scheme of up to £4000) and we work with professional providers to provide occupational health and full mental and physical wellbeing services.

Download the Employee Value Proposition for full details of the benefits of being a VOA employee at:

For further information and application details follow the 'Apply' button.