Head of Estates Strategy, Compliance and Planning (Headquarters, Kent)

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Head of Estates Strategy, Compliance and Planning (Headquarters, Kent)

Location of Role: Maidstone

Advert Closing Date: 13/08/2025

Starting Salary: £72,723.00(pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time:Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

An exciting opportunity has become available for a full-time Head of Estate Strategy, Compliance & Planning based at Kent Police Headquarters.

Kent Police is seeking a highly skilled and visionary individual to shape the future of our estate portfolio and ensure it meets the evolving needs of modern policing.

As the Head of Estate Strategy, Compliance & Planning, you will lead the development and implementation of the Estate Strategy, ensuring it aligns with both operational and customer needs. A key focus of the role is to drive green and sustainable building practices, aiming to reduce the environmental impact across the estate. You will provide visible leadership to the estates strategy, compliance, and planning team, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation.

You will oversee compliance and governance for all Kent Police buildings, ensuring that statutory responsibilities are consistently met. Estate asset planning will also fall under your remit, including acquisitions, disposals, and the effective utilisation of assets. In addition, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining estate policies and procedures that support the organisation's strategic goals.

Financial management is a critical aspect of the role, requiring ownership of both capital and revenue budgets. You will act as a subject matter expert, building strategic partnerships and identifying innovative estate solutions that enhance operational efficiency and sustainability.

To be successful in this role, you must be a Chartered Surveyor with a RICS qualification and possess extensive strategic leadership experience within the built environment or building industry. Strong financial modelling and budget management skills are essential, along with a proven ability to conduct complex commercial negotiations. Excellent communication, drafting, and interpersonal skills are required, as is experience in compliance, governance, and estates risk management. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and adept at prioritising estate services.

It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have experience in sustainability and green building initiatives, as well as a background in public sector or police estate management.

For further information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Jonathan Castle, Chief Finance Officer via email .

Kent Policeoffer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of£80,814.00.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the "reason for application" question, within the application form itself. CV's, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your "reason for application" answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at stating 'Application Support and Adjustments' in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on .

Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you're not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain.

If you're from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn't apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.