Role Overview
An opening has arisen for a Valuation Assistant administrator to support a dynamic, exciting and busy Rural Consultancy team. The team provides core valuation and consultancy services in the rural, agricultural and prime residential sectors across Scotland. With a unique and varied workload, the role requires someone proactive, efficient and organised. The role offers potential progression and training for the right candidate. We are also advertising for a Food & Farming Assistant which combined could make this a full-time role.
Key Responsibilities
- Creating and maintaining electronic files.
- Instruction and contact creation within Dynamics CRM.
- Maintaining our in-house valuation database; creating fee quotes, inputting valuation data and system management.
- Monthly invoicing including job time and expenses recovery.
- General administration, merging PDFs and appendices for reports, scanning and binding.
This is not an exhaustive list and in addition to the administrative tasks described above, the job holder will receive training to aid with the valuation process and due diligence work including planning, legal, environmental and comparable property searches.
Key Skills
- Strong interpersonal, organisational and communications skills.
- Focussed with experience of working to deadlines and prioritising tasks.
- Numerate and literate with a high attention to detail.
- Able to assimilate information quickly and identify errors.
- Excellent data administration skills using MS Office package especially Excel & Word
- Internet savvy coupled with the ability to learn new systems and processes.
- Able to work well within a small team which sits within a larger department.
- A self-starter and self-motivated person who is competent to work on their own and as part of a team and contribute to the overall goals of the department.
Team Overview
The team of mainly RICS Registered Valuers are based in Edinburgh, Perth and Aberdeen. Their main workload is valuation reports for institutional clients, banks, solicitors and private clients, together with other rural consultancy work including CPO, expert witness work and landlord and tenant matters. The surveyors are often out of the office carrying out site inspections and sometimes work remotely. This role will be office based in Perth.
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