Manager - Contingent Assets & Liabilities (CAL) and Commercial Disposals

Manager - Contingent Assets & Liabilities (CAL) and Commercial Disposals

Application closing date: 01/06/2025

We expect to hold interviews week commencing: 16/06/2025

A bit about the role...

Working in the Contingent Assets and Liabilities (CAL) and Commercial Disposals team, within the Development Directorate, the CAL and Commercial Disposals Manager will play a critical role in contributing to the team’s ethos of providing high quality, client side property advice and delivering on key strategic targets linked to the Business Plan.

The Manager role involves working closely with, and assisting the Head of CAL and Commercial Disposals and Senior Managers in providing effective co-ordination, liaison and communication with locally based staff, Heads of Delivery and senior management teams and providing support across the Development Directorate and finance teams, including Internal Audit through the provision of management information.

You will have a specific focus on a number of workstreams. Primarily; managing an exit from a portfolio of historic Building Lease cases; working with the Geospatial team to resolve title discrepancies; leading on a caseload of potential liability transfers subject to endowments; the rapid processing of auction disposals relating to none developable land and; preparing with analyst support reports to confirm the closure of projects, assembling data from the various systems to populate the report templates (G5) and facilitate closure of the project.

You will be involved in securing solutions to the disposal of the agency’s commercial land portfolio and other non-strategic land holdings, BNG offsetting land and endowments.

You will monitor, review and manage the resolution of a portfolio of Contingent Assets and Liabilities. The portfolio holds a range of assets of varying types and sizes (including funding agreements, development agreements, overage and clawback deeds) often with unique characteristics, offering a variable workload and wide-ranging experience.

The CAL & Commercial Disposals Team is also responsible for recognising, establishing and maintaining relationships with many of the Agency’s strategic partners in the undertaking of its workload, for instance Local Government bodies. The role offers the opportunity to present the Agency in the best way possible by providing timely and professional advice that provides confidence to our partners and reflects positively across the whole organisation.

You will be joining our experienced and growing team of 15, who are committed to making a positive impact to how non-strategic assets are reviewed and appropriate actions delivered effectively, to the financial and reputational benefit of the Agency.

A bit about you…

You will have:

-  Degree level education/equivalent with good experience within the property development industry.

- Appropriate professional membership, MRICS or equivalent. Registered Valuer status is desirable.

-  A good understanding of the marketplace and in particular, but not limited to, the commercial property sector is essential.

-  A good understanding of the mechanics of funding agreements, development agreements and land disposals in relation to conditional receipts consisting of planning windfall, post-sale clawback, grant clawback, and in relation to future unconditional receipts consisting of overage as a financial asset, disposal of assets with deferred consideration, loan and equity repayments.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

You will be ambitious, striving to exceed targets and continually improve, and you will be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Who are we? 

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes. 

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working currently operating 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices (or at home!)