Senior Faculty Estates Officer

University of Manchester

Job reference: PSX-025793

Salary: £46,485-56,921 per annum, dependent on relevant experience

Location: Oxford Road

Employment type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: Full time (1 FTE)

Contract Duration: Permanent

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Faculty Estates Officer to join our busy and productive team. The Faculty Estates teams play a pivotal role within the University acting as the key interface between the academic Faculties and Professional Services teams who occupy the buildings and the Estates and Facilities Directorate who manage and maintain them.

In addition to providing strategic guidance on property and buildings matters and operational support for the academic Schools and Research Institutes, the role of the team is to ensure that campus, buildings and facilities are managed in line with the expectations of the end user clients, and the University’s Strategic Plan.

As a Senior Faculty Estates Officer, you will represent the Estates and Facilities Directorate across the University providing advice on strategic and operational property and facilities matters. You will be a team player who has the ability to communicate using a variety of methods and possess strong interpersonal skills required to ensure you can contribute to the smooth running of the campus operation.

We are looking for a candidate that can:

Work to specified deadlines with associated document management and reporting capabilities.

Effectively lead and manage individuals within a Team, setting and achieving clear objectives and performance goals and conducting individual meetings and reviews.

Demonstrate knowledge of budgetary responsibilities together with a proven track record of delivering projects and services to time, quality and budget.

Manage communication between Project Team members and other stakeholders.

Establish, build and maintain positive relationships across all partners and stakeholders.

As an ideal candidate you will have:

An appropriate construction related degree or professional qualification, ideally to a chartered level.

A proven track record of providing construction and project management advice in a customer focused environment.

High levels of IT literacy including contemporary office applications (365 etc.).

Experience of and ability to produce high quality professional written reports and correspondence, and in delivering clear written, visual and verbal reports or presentations.

The capacity to think in strategic terms and can exercise leadership in organisational change.

Strong negotiation and relationship building skills with the ability to influence others outside of your direct control.

As one of the leading Universities our employees enjoy exclusive access to excellent benefits and schemes including:

An annual pay review, plus incremental salary increases within grade.

Exceptional performance award scheme.

The Universities Superannuation Pension Scheme (USS), with generous employer monthly pension contribution.

Generous Annual Leave plus University Closure Days, Public Holidays and Christmas/New Year.

Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program access – for health support, financial advice.

What you will get in return:

Fantastic market leading Pension scheme.

Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme.

Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays.

Additional paid closure over the Christmas period.

Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to [email protected]

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Stephen Bateson

Email: [email protected]

General enquiries:

Email: [email protected]

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the 4 November 2024.

Interviews will take place in person at our Oxford Road Campus week commencing 2 December 2024.

Please see the link for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

To apply please click the apply now button.

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