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£38,000 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

Are you passionate about making a real impact through safer, high‑quality environments? Do you want to use your estates, health & safety and compliance expertise to help drive meaningful change across a national charity? If so, Life Charity would love to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced, proactive, and values‑driven Estates Manager to lead our Estates function and ensure our services, properties, and environments consistently meet the highest standards.

The Role:

As Estates Manager, you will be the driving force behind the quality, compliance and safety of Life’s estate. This role combines strategic oversight with hands‑on management of our property portfolio, ensuring all sites are safe, secure and operating to required standards.

You will:

  • Lead Health & Safety and Premises/Facilities Management across the charity
  • Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and internal standards
  • Oversee risk management, audits, inspections and safety monitoring
  • Manage the Estates Coordinator and foster a culture of continuous improvement
  • Work with external partners to ensure checks are carried out (Gas, Fire Safety, Legionella, Asbestos, etc.)
  • Manage property acquisition, disposal, leases, maintenance and contracts
  • Develop and maintain estates policies and reporting systems
  • Drive a positive, proactive health & safety culture across Life

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone wanting to lead meaningful change within an organisation that truly makes a difference.

What You’ll Bring:

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • Highly organised, proactive, and able to take initiative
  • A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
  • Confident managing estates compliance, risk, safety and property-related functions
  • Experienced in managing a portfolio of properties (minimum 3 years)
  • Able to lead others and support their development
  • Skilled in identifying improvements and driving change

Qualifications/Experience:
✔ NEBOSH (or equivalent) in Occupational Health & Safety
✔ Evidence of continuous professional development
✔ Experience in data analysis or financial management (desirable)
✔ HND or equivalent in business/charity administration (desirable)

Information about the role: 

For further information, please see the attached job description. 

Please note, there is a requirement to drive for this role.

Salary: £38,000 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Home Based with travel to Leamington Spa and sites around the UK

Benefits:  

At Life we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our:  

  • Generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time hours) 
  • Birthday Leave  (applicable after 1 years service)
  • Additional annual leave for long term service  
  • Company Pension Scheme  
  • Signed member of the Menopause Workplace Pledge 

Safeguarding and Equality:

Life is committed to protecting all staff, volunteers and service users from harm of any kind. Life expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct.   

We are committed to ensuring diversity and equality within our organisation by encouraging applications from all backgrounds.  

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. Life takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) which is paid for by the Charity.  

Application resources
Organisation
Life 2009 View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 51 - 100
Posted on: 18 February 2026
Closing date: 20 March 2026 at 23:30
Job ref: Estates Manager
Tags: Policy, Legal / Law, Facilities, Health and Safety, Risk Management, Safeguarding