Estates Surveyor, South & East Hub - Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough or Worthing

Environment Agency • Full-time • England, United Kingdom • max £49,030 / year • 1w ago

If you’re part of the Environment Agency, you’re part of the solution. Working with us means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of national importance. We’re based across England, and our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries and conservation.

Such broad scope of work calls for diverse, multi-skilled teams. Together, we’ll promote sustainable growth, tackle climate change and secure a better future for everyone.

As an Estates Surveyor, you’ll be involved in a wide variety of surveying work, providing professional property expertise across all aspects of our business. As the property specialist, you’ll work collaboratively within project teams helping to deliver a nationwide £5.4 billion programme of capital flood defence work that will protect 336,000 properties. You’ll be involved at all stages of project delivery from feasibility through to completion. Your expertise will be applied to the management of a diverse land and property portfolio, including commercial and rural property management, valuation and dealing with landlord and tenant issues.

As a confident negotiator, you’ll represent our interests with a broad customer and client base. With an up-to-date knowledge of current legislation and best practice, you’ll provide strong technical guidance and support to other members of your team. We’ll also support you to develop both personally and professionally.

Responding to incidents is an important part of what we do, and with this in mind you’ll have an incident role and should be ready to make yourself available to respond or

provide business continuity support. This may attract an additional payment, and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you.

About you

Please read the Additional Information pack for the full essential and desirable criteria required for this role. Below states the qualifications/memberships and experience required:

· You will hold one of the following qualifications/memberships:

you’ll be a fellow of the CAAV (FAAV)
qualified as a chartered surveyor (MRICS/FRICS) ideally in Land and Resources, Commercial or Rural. However, we would consider other pathways, if you feel the pathway you have followed would be suitable for this role. Please note. We will accept your application if you have submitted your APC and expect to pass within the next three months.

· full and valid driving licence

· experience of estate management, acquisition and disposal work in the urban and/or rural environment and experience within land rights acquisition

· be able to demonstrate that you can draw on your knowledge and experience to advise on a range of property matter and projects

About us

The Estates service extends to 160 people, offering professional support for Environment Agency land, property, compensation and valuation matters. We are core to the delivery of the Agency’s £5.2 billion capital programme to better protect 336,000 homes. Our experienced teams specialise in negotiating access, dealing with compensation claims from land and property owners where they have suffered loss as a consequence of our work.

We also manage the Agency’s landholdings, which extends to 26,000 hectares.

The rewards

As well as the opportunity to make a real difference to the environment, you can look forward to a competitive package with a range of benefits. These include:

· a generous career average salary pension scheme (currently 19% contributions from us);

· holiday allowance linked to grade and length of service, rising from 27 days to 30 days per year, plus 8 statutory public and bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time employees);

· generous enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes;

· a range of flexible working options including flexi-time; these depend on business needs, but our aim is to help you achieve a positive work-life balance.

An additional allowance of £4,750 is offered for this role, increasing the salary to £49,030 pro rata. Please read the Additional Information pack for details about this allowance payment and role.

We will support your continued personal and professional development too and we’ll put a formal development plan in place for you and help you to identify and address any skills gaps. We are committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working patterns, including job share. Please highlight any information regarding preferred flexible working arrangements on your application.

For more information

We’re hosting an open MS Teams call on 23 July at 14:00, and you’re welcome to join us to learn more about the role. Email RecruitmentEstates@environment-agency.gov.uk for the details. You can also download the Additional Information pack, which includes helpful guidance for your application.

Please note, your work location is flexible, but you will be required to travel across the south-east of the country to carry out surveying work, this may include overnight stays. A full UK driving licence is essential to travel to these sites and offices across our hubs, some of which are inaccessible by public transport. You’ll be provided with a vehicle to carry out this work if required.

Interviews will take place via MS Teams on 27 August 2026.

Closing date: 2 August 2026, 23:55 hours.

Job reference: 35383

Salary: £49,030

Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time, Compressed Hours,

Post Type: Permanent

Location: Based in Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough or Worthing

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