Land Access Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - High Speed Two (HS2)

High Speed Two (HS2)

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Location:
Snow Hill, Birmingham

Salary:
Base salary: £47,450 pa to c.£59,300 pa depending on skills and experience.

In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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.

Context:
Under the powers of the High Speed Rail Act (London - West Midlands) Act 2017,and Parliamentary Standing Orders (and Transport & Works Act Orders) for the proposed Hybrid Bills for Phase 2 of the high speed rail scheme, HS2 is required to undertake a range of surveys and investigations in support of the engineering design and environmental assessment

As a
Land Access Lead at HS2 you will be required to manage resources and processes necessary to secure

timely access to land with the consent of landowners or by notice under relevant statute (pre-Royal Assent) to enable a wide range of survey and investigation activities to proceed to programme.

About the role

Deliver site access on all lots of the Phase 2 scheme for environmental, ecological, noise, utility, heritage, and ground investigation surveys in accordance with agreed Delivery programmes preRoyal Assent.
Administer and manage PSC activities to ensure access is secured in accordance with the agreed survey programmes; monitor progress and performance and escalate nonperformance to Contract Manager for contractual remediation and address.
Sign off survey payment schedule payments prepared by the Access Payment Officers for environmental and ground investigation works.
Sign off and agree crop loss and disturbance compensation payments for environmental and ground investigation works.
Provide single point of contact for access matters across HS2 to ensure access requests are coordinated, costs managed, and disruption to landowners kept to a minimum.
Agree and deliver the scope of access requests to ensure access sought is proportionate and defensible to ensure cost effectiveness of the survey programme.
Periodically review the form of Early Access Agreement, Ground Investigation agreement and template correspondence which accompany these and secure approval for any modifications from internal and external stakeholders in order to improve the form of agreement.
Prepare and deliver the financial access budgets (fees and survey compensation) based on forecast survey programmes, and the monthly reporting of actual and accrued payments against budget.
Provide regular and accurate reporting and forecasting to inform the monthly actuals and accruals figures prepared by the Access Payments Officer.
Manage interface with land agents, key stakeholders, and landowners to ensure processes and fees are consistently applied; attend key meetings to review the works, address issues and concerns and ensure that the compensation packages are fair and appropriate to specific circumstances and consistently applied along the whole route; attend meetings with NFU/CLA/CAAV on access matters.

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, to ensure deliverables are provided within time, cost, and criteria.
Ability to lead and coach a team to develop to its full potential.
Ability to assess claims for loss (crop loss, reinstatement, etc).
Ability to compile and analyse data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools.
Ability to manage external suppliers including setting clear deliverables and KPIs.
Ability to develop effective relationships and deliver complex projects to agreed timescales.

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 practices.
Understanding of land and property ownership and occupation rights.
Understanding of legal agreements to enable entry to land for survey purposes.
Professional membership of relevant institution (RICS, CAAV, RTPI, APM, etc)

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