Note from the Diocesan Secretary
Dear Applicant
As Head of Property your skills will be key to helping us develop and support our property portfolio and processes to fulfil these strategic goals, as well as to ensure strong and effective management and maintenance of our buildings and land. This is a hands on and busy role supported by a small in-house property and church care team that delivers a key function of the support we provide to our parishes from our Operations team based at Church House. You will also need to ensure we maintain and develop a reliable and trusted network of suppliers, including architects, surveyors, agents, engineers, project managers and building contractors. We are looking for a proven hands-on leader and skilled property professional with a track-record of property portfolio management, both residential and community based. We want someone who can inspire and support their own team, our leadership team and the wider organisation. But most of all I am looking for a colleague who shares the missional passion and heart to reach and serve communities in this place.
Thank you for your interest in this key role of Head of Property in the Diocese of Guildford. I’m so glad that you’re considering joining our team. This is an exciting time for us, with the launch of the vision of a Transforming Church, Transforming Lives in 2016 leading to significant new missional energy in many of our churches, chaplaincies and schools. It’s been especially encouraging to witness the development of around 80 new worshipping communities since the launch, including four major projects in areas of new housing. Over the past eighteen months we have moved our diocesan teams into new, attractive, open-plan offices on the University of Surrey Research Park. More recently, we have embarked on a major review of the services we offer, seeking to ensure that our diocesan strategy gets well embedded, that our resources are efficiently managed, and that Church House Guildford is genuinely scratching where the parishes are itching.
Yours faithfully
Peter Coles Diocesan Secretary
Made with FlippingBook Ebook Creator