Head of Estates - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Blue Cross For Pets

Blue Cross For Pets
Blue Cross For Pets
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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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Job title:
Head of Estates & Facilities

Contract:
Permanent, full time - 35 hours


Salary:
£50,000 - £60,000


Location:
Burford/Hybrid


Closing date:
Thursday 13 April 2023

First Interview dates:
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 April 2023

Second interview dates:
Thursday 11 May 2023

About Blue Cross

Blue Cross is one of the UK's leading animal welfare organisations for animals.

We are a charity that supports sick, injured, and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes.


The help we offer includes veterinary treatment, finding loving new homes for pets, pet food banks, behavioural advice, support with pet bereavement and education for future generations.

About the role


We are recruiting a Head of Estates and Facilities to lead the teams responsible for delivering services to ensure all Blue Cross employees and volunteers have a safe, functional, and inspiring place to work.


Blue Cross has a varied estate of over 75 properties including retail, clinical, residential and offices across England and Wales.


You will be responsible for the strategic leadership of our Estates and Facilities, including fleet, from the design, development, and delivery of multiyear strategies to ensure Blue Cross continuously improves.


You will do this by:

  • Developing, directing, and controlling all aspects of the Estates & Facilities team to ensure that the service provided meets or exceeds both external statutory and regulatory obligations and internal performance and financial targets.
  • Ensuring the Estates & Facilities team are supported, empowered, and developed as individuals, and feel valued as part of the Blue Cross.
  • Championing efficiency, strong procurement practices and cost minimisation, working with colleagues to ensure we are delivering the biggest impact from our supporter's donations.
  • Developing and championing the organisation's approach to sustainability and environmental impact.
  • Developing effective relationships with other departments, functions, and suppliers, maintaining a strong customer focus where relevant
  • Ensuring all necessary arrangements, systems and processes are in place to deliver effective and timely reactive and planned maintenance where required and that local teams have a clear understanding how these arrangements operate and the corresponding SLA's they can expect.
  • Taking the lead as an environmental ambassador for the Blue Cross and working with colleagues to consider the environmental impact and sustainability of our activities.
About you


You will bring an exceptional track record of leading, motivating and inspiring a team in a similar sized organisation with comparable reach and complexity.

You will demonstrate a firm grasp of maintenance, development, and management of an organisation's physical estate, including both hard and soft Facilities management.


With experience of strategic planning in a multi-site operation, and used to working on a national scale, you will understand the importance of detail and technical specifications and be committed to change and continuous improvement.

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While you may currently work in a national charity, a background in health, social care or housing could also have helped you gain the right skillset.

Impressive technical, professional, and contextual knowledge, plus high-level communication and influencing skills, will allow you to establish rapid credibility and rapport with your direct reports, wider teams, and the Blue Cross Leadership Team.

Essential qualifications, skills, and experience

  • Commensurate experience of leading a team in a similar sized organisation
  • Experience of developing and delivering of multiyear strategies
  • Experience of overseeing the maintenance, development, and management of an organisation's physical estate, including both hard and soft Facilities management
Desirable qualifications, skills, and experience

  • A formal qualification in Estate and/ or Facilities management (RICS / IWFM etc)
  • Project management experience and qualification (Prince, APM, etc)
  • Experience of managing an organisation's fleet
  • Submission of reports and experience of reporting to a Board of directors / trustees


Want to know more the detail? Great We have attached the job description which hopefully gives you everything you need.

Why Blue Cross?

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose.

If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make a difference that we do today.


We offer a generous benefits package that includes:

  • 6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Holiday exchange & enhanced parental leave
  • Annual volunteer days
  • Long service awards, starting from 5 years
  • Vast range of discounts across high street stores, insurance services & more
To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work fo
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