• To ensure the effective management of the annual estates budget, ensuring that all services are provided at optimum cost effectiveness levels. • Ensuring the ongoing training, development, skills and competencies of colleagues within the estates function. • To ensure a client-centred approach is embedded within the delivery of estates services. • To provide leadership to the sustainability and green agendas across the college. • To ensure that up-to-date information is available on all matters associated with compliance and legislation.
• To be responsible for the strategic and operational management of major capital projects. • To keep abreast of all local, regional and national policy developments, with a view to achieving beneficial outcomes for the college and its learners. • To manage relationships with professional delivery service providers in relation to all capital projects. • To ensure the college, and the public purse, achieves best value in all capital and development programmes. • To ensure that effective financial controls are in place and managed appropriately across project lifecycles. • To manage relationships with all providers of external funding support for all capital related projects and programmes. • To anticipate, and plan for, changes in the further education and skills landscape and to ensure the college is well positioned to respond. 3. Strategic Leadership of Estates: • To be the strategic lead on the college estate, including liaison with all external stakeholders with an interest in the college estate, e.g. planning authorities, combined authority etc. • To provide long term, comprehensive and integrated physical resource planning support, ensuring the full exploitation of the college’s physical resources. • To lead on strategic planning for the physical environment and physical resources including the preparation, revision and implementation of the estate strategy and its associated financial implications. • To lead on the planning and delivery of maintenance across the estate portfolio, spanning all building fabric and infrastructure. • To lead on the management of the estate in terms of compliance and condition management. To prioritise investment based on compliance and condition assessment. • To lead on space management and asset management of the College’s property and land holdings, ensuring that the College derives best value from its space. • To plan, manage and develop the estate and its related resources and services in line with best practice in the further education sector. • To ensure best practice in all estates related procurement, achieving the efficient management of all works and services related to the maintenance and improvement of the estate.
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
In common with all other employees of the College, the post holder is expected to: • Perform duties to a high standard and to ensure that the quality assurance processes are implemented successfully across the College, particularly those relating to their own role. • Positively contribute to a safe learning and work environment ensuring compliance with Health and Safety policies and procedures • Have a personal responsibility for Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults to ensure compliance with Safeguarding policies and procedures. • Participate in and make an appropriate contribution to the College’s planning and review process. • Take a proactive role in the maintenance of acceptable standards of student behaviour. • Contribute to the development of the Strategic Plan and to the achievement of the objectives contained therein. • To make a full contribution to the Diversity and Inclusion agenda. • Keep up to date with issues affecting the role and contribute to staff development activity. Standard Clauses • To comply with the College’s policies and procedures • To comply with Sandwell College’s safety policy and other safety procedures and guidelines are deemed part of the job description. Employees must look after their own Health & Safety and welfare and be mindful of other persons who may be affected by their acts.
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