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Estates and Operations Manager
Location: Any CHAS site, (Hybrid with base in Edinburgh, Balloch or Kinross, travel expected between sites, see below for more detail)
Contract: Permanent Full Time (35 hours per week)
Are you an experienced Estates and Operations Manager? We are looking for an experienced individual who understands our goals, to join our dynamic team of professionals.
At CHAS, we provide unwavering care across homes, hospices, and hospitals for children who may die young. We create moments of joy and support families at every step on this hardest of journeys.
The role
Children's Hospices Across Scotland is seeking a dedicated and experienced Estates and Operations Manager to ensure the smooth functioning of our properties and facilities across the organisation. In this critical role, you will oversee a dedicated internal team and external contractors, while ensuring compliance with statutory, legislative and Health and Safety requirements. You will lead a team, coordinating all hard facilities management services, day to day property management, implementing planned and preventative maintenance strategies and maintaining high industry standards for CHAS facilities. You will procure and lead on small projects working closely with our internal teams. Additionally, you will work closely with clinical and non-clinical staff in our hospices to meet the ongoing needs of children, families, staff, volunteers and visitors.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a robust planned and preventative maintenance programme to ensure the safety, operation and compliance of the CHAS estate.
- Manage reactive maintenance activities, effectively prioritising requests and allocating resources.
- Oversee the development and delivery of the Asset Management plan and works programme, including condition surveys, informing budgeting and financial planning processes.
- Plan and execute capital works projects, from tendering to commissioning and overseeing project teams.
- Specify, tender, negotiate, and manage Estate, Hard FM contracts and services.
- Monitor and report on the assigned Estate Management and Hard FM budget, ensuring adherence to financial guidelines and preparing multi-year forecasts.
- Ensure statutory compliance, conducting assessments, audits, and inspections while maintaining relevant records.
- Lead sustainability and energy management efforts, promoting environmental action plans and managing utility contracts.
- Oversee security procedures and systems for all CHAS sites.
- Develop and maintain effective systems for estate data management.
- Manage the Hard FM Team, supporting staff development.
- Communicate effectively with Operations Manager Soft FM and Head of Facilities Management & Projects to address site issues and prioritise actions.
Requirements
- Degree/HNC/HND in a Property or Building Services discipline or five years' relevant experience in a similar role.
- Possess IOSH Managing Safely Qualification.
- Proactive with a positive attitude and excellent planning and prioritisation skills.
- Highly developed communication and collaboration skills with the ability to simplify technical information.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to make decisions under pressure.
- Knowledgeable in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
- Wide and detailed knowledge of Hard FM Services, including electrical and mechanical systems.
- Experience in managing multi-site estates with both owned and leased premises.
- Demonstrated team management and organisational skills in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Experience in contract management of outsourced services and suppliers.
- Detailed knowledge of statutory compliance and legislative requirements in property and facilities management.
- Experienced in the use of building management systems and project management.
- Budget management skills and experience.
- Ability to travel to each of our sites across Scotland.
Why CHAS?
At CHAS, we care for dying children and their families. However, we also care about you. Some of the benefits of a career at CHAS include:
- A robust induction programme.
- Development opportunities for your career and leadership progression, and the time to prioritise your personal development.
- A supportive and collaborative work environment.
- Opportunity to make a real impact on the community by delivering best-in-class services.
- Working across different parts of Scotland with diverse stakeholders.
- Flexible and hybrid working available.
- The opportunity to continue paying into existing NHS pension schemes (subject to eligibility), or membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
You can view the full range of benefits in the attached benefits document.
Further Information
CHAS support families across the whole of Scotland. Our Head Office is based in Edinburgh, and we have two hospices: Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch. We also have our fundraising office in Glasgow, dedicated bases in Aberdeen and Inverness, and Shops in Dunfermline and Kinross.
As this role will closely support our hospices, we would like to speak to candidates who could base themselves from either Edinburgh, Kinross or Balloch and we do expect regular travel across these sites with predicted 3 days onsite/week, varying as needed. The remaining days can be worked remotely.
As a team we work flexibly and are happy to discuss how we can meet business needs while accommodating individual working patterns and requirements.
We are open to hearing from applicants who feel they could excel in the role but may not have all the skills listed above. If you have a strong core skillset within Estates and Operations Management and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Scotland check.
We expect interviews to take place on 1st May 2024.
Interested?
If this sounds like you, then we would love you to apply!
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· Full job description
· Full list of benefits
· Contact details to arrange an informal chat with the hiring manager.
· Contact details for support with the recruitment process.
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Head of Property
Canterbury, Kent
£50,242 - £57,778 pa plus excellent benefits
35 hours per week
The Head of Property is a crucial and pivotal role at the Diocese, as you will lead the strategic management of the Diocese’s assets, taking responsibility for maximising income and capital returns from assets, including property development on investment land and buildings.
Reporting to the Diocesan Secretary, you will oversee the management of the Diocese’s housing and the Glebe estate. You will ensure good quality clergy accommodation through strategic maintenance and planned enhancements, along with the sale, purchase and development of housing stock and glebe land as required.
Managing the Property Services Team, which oversees the management of all clergy and other housing within the Diocese, you will ensure maintenance and improvements are performed within agreed timeframes and budgets and provide an excellent and friendly service to clergy and their household. In addition, you will ensure maximised rental income from vacant housing and glebe land which is a key income stream for the Diocese.
As Head of Property, you will offer support to parishes and protect their interests by advising on decision making regarding their buildings, with a particular focus on enhancing utilisation and value, especially for church halls. You will also represent, protect and advance the interests of PCCs, Incumbents and Churchwardens, by partnering with them to provide high-level advice to parishes on the effective management of property matters, particularly in cases where the Diocese acts as custodian trustee on their behalf.
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Professionally qualified with a relevant qualification and with significant demonstrable post qualification experience in a similar role, perhaps as a surveyor, you should have proven leadership experience with a focus on strategic property development and resource planning.
With experience of working in the property sector, ideally in asset management, residential property management and landlord and tenant relations, you should have a track record of driving maximum return from property and/or land assets, including experience of property disposals and purchases. Able to maximise income, you should also be adept at planning, managing and reviewing substantial budgets and exercising strict financial controls in a property environment.
Sympathetic to the overall Christian mission of the Church of England, including the Diocese’s schools, church communities and buildings, you should be prepared and able to travel regularly throughout the Diocese.
Previous experience with Charities or Not-for-Profit organisations is desirable but not essential.
The Housing and Land assets of the Diocese of Canterbury comprises operational and investment properties, almost all of which consist of ministry housing stock and a small amount of Glebe Land. Assets include circa 170 parsonage houses, the majority of which are occupied by clergy, establishing a unique relationship between the Diocese and church leaders. A minority of the stock (around 50 properties) which are intended for ministry but not currently used, generate substantial rental income. Notably, recent years have seen the move to ensure that we have the right properties in the right places for ministry as well as exploring development opportunities on existing properties that are due to be reviewed, sold or replaced.
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At the heart of all we do is a vision of transformation for ourselves and our communities: no one can encounter God and remain unchanged. In the Diocese of Canterbury, we want to increasingly become a Christian community transformed through encounter with Christ, growing and overflowing to transform and bless the families, homes and communities we serve: Changed Lives, Changing Lives.
Closing date: 6 May 2024, 11:59pm