The Role
Core responsibilities: • Provide professional and expert leadership at a significant operational level and contribute to strategic planning to meet organisational objectives, for all property assets and space matters. • Provide expertise and professional advice to the Director of Estates and Facilities and University Executive Committee, to ensure the strategic interest of the University is optimised, the University’s reputation is upheld, development and commercial opportunities and income are maximised, and risk is reduced, for the University’s property and land holdings portfolio. • Lead the strategic planning and management of space across the University, to meet the University’s growth aspirations. • Provide feedback on team and individual performance and identify development needs, conducting regular staff ADR and performance reviews. • Recruit, induct, train and develop new team members. • Help to shape the skills and expertise of team members and design work structures to meet operational and strategic goals. • Handle the vast majority of welfare issues within a team, referring more complex welfare issues to appropriate support services/senior management. • Provide strategic leadership and expert guidance, advice and problem-solving skills to stakeholders on all property, landlord and tenant matters. • Identify and develop innovative approaches and make recommendations for how these can be implemented within the Property Asset and Space teams. • Significant input into the planning and development of future skills and expertise within the Property Asset and Space teams, to meet organisational goals. • Responsible for the management and leadership
of people across service areas, setting operational and strategic objectives for discrete areas. • Implement change management projects across service areas in collaboration with peers and specialists to ensure a smooth and effective transition. • Lead the creation, review, design, implementation and monitoring of policy and service level standards, for the management of property assets and space. • Contribute to wider quality and regulatory audit process for stakeholder systems and services. • Influence and contribute to operational and strategic scoping and resource planning across a range of activities, developing and presenting complex business plans and strategy documents where required. • Set operational objectives for the scoping initiation, planning and implementation of significant projects in service areas. • Devolve key responsibilities to experienced team members, to ensure succession and encourage skills development. • Provide leadership and influence the governance of service activities, processes and transactions to meet regulatory and professional service and policy standards. • Build and lead an influential network of internal and external stakeholders, to influence the development of service provision. • Provide leadership within project teams to shape and determine specifications and key deliverables, problem solve and guide implementation. • Lead internal and external business meetings, working groups and committees at operational and strategic service level to influence governance, organisational policy and standards for the service. • Budget responsibility for allocating and managing expenditure of consumable and capital items.
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