Graduate Consultant - Real Estate Management

Location: Stockton-on-Tees

Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm, Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £25,000 - £26,000 per annum

Visa Sponsorship: This position does not meet the UK Home Office sponsorship requirements (specifically, financial thresholds). Therefore, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Closing Date: 20 November 2026

Group Interview Dates: 16 & 17 December 2026

2nd stage Interview Dates: W/c 4 January 2027

Role Overview

Sewell Advisory is the consultancy division of Sewell Group and an industry leader in strategic estates advice, development and project management, and operational property support for clients across the UK.

This role is designed for a graduate who has completed, or is close to completing, a RICS-accredited degree and wants to build a career as a chartered surveyor. You will join a supportive multidisciplinary team, gain structured experience against the relevant RICS competencies and work towards the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC), with the aim of achieving MRICS chartered status.

Our customers are predominantly in the health, education and wider public sectors. We help organisations make informed decisions about their land, buildings and estates, including strategy, options appraisal, business cases, development, project delivery and operational property matters.

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Role Responsibilities

From the outset, the Graduate Consultant will have the opportunity to contribute to client-facing property and estates commissions, supported by experienced colleagues. This role offers practical experience across the relevant RICS competencies, while developing technical knowledge, commercial awareness, professional judgement and communication skills.

The successful candidate will agree a structured APC development plan with their counsellor or supervisor, gaining the experience needed to progress towards chartership. This will include maintaining experience and continuing professional development records, gathering evidence of competence and preparing for RICS assessments.

The role is well suited to someone who is proactive, keen to learn and committed to taking an active role in their own professional development, seeking feedback and applying new knowledge in their day-to-day work.

Why Start Your Career With Us?

• We will provide you with a personalised induction programme, intended to make sure that by the end of 90 days you have been introduced to all aspects of our business, our vision and values, the wider group structure and your role – as well as getting to know your new colleagues
• You will take part in regular reviews to track your development and progress and identify opportunities for further training and improvement to help you on your career path
• We offer flexibility and autonomy in the direction of your career, with the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience across our varied service offer
• We will support your further professional development, including providing Better Business Cases and Project Management specific training and then additional sponsorship to pursue your own chosen professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, APM, CIOB) 
• We have a variety of Internal training and development opportunities, including leadership workshops, personal development skills, management training and ‘learning lunches’ 
• Our wider group structure enables us to offer coaching and mentoring with a diverse group of business leaders
• Be part of a peer-to-peer support network with other graduates and juniors across the Sewell Group
• We enable your access to local networking events through our corporate membership of Marketing Humber Bondholders  and other similar organisations

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• Hold, or be on course to complete, a degree accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for the relevant APC pathway
• Be committed to completing the RICS APC pathway and achieving MRICS chartered status
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise tasks accordingly, meet set deadlines and work with multiple ongoing tasks
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy working environment, but also the ability to work unsupervised at times
• The ability to learn and work with new technology and software
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Awareness of the importance of confidentiality
• Have good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Be willing to take responsibility for APC records, continuing professional development and evidence of competence, with support from the business
• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence and own transport

Desirable

• Relevant work experience, placement experience or an internship in surveying, property, estates or a consultancy environment
• Experience working in or with the public sector

Sewell Group and its subsidiary businesses are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Annual Bonus opportunity

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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