ROLE DESCRIPTION
Reporting to: Director of Finance Summary:
Job description/expectations/requirements • To lead and manage the Estates & Facilities department, ensuring that the College’s estate is fit-for-purpose, and provides appropriate, high quality accommodation that meets the needs of the College’s staff and students. • To be responsible for creatively developing and delivering the vision and strategy for estates and facilities provision within the College, with particular focus on ensuring optimum use, economic/efficient management and high quality of the estate and associated facilities. • To work with the Director of Finance, Chief Information Officer and wider Goldsmiths’ stakeholders to develop a long-term Infrastructure Strategy that meets the pedagogic, social learning and accommodation needs of students and staff. • To work collaboratively with the Chief Information Officer to develop and deliver the College’s infrastructure development programme, ensuring that capital projects are carried out effectively (on time, to budget) and to high standards, minimising the impact on the College whilst the projects are carried out and maximising the benefit to the College from enhanced infrastructure which meet users’ needs. • To ensure that the estate is maintained to a high standard, with robust programmes of planned maintenance and an effective, efficient maintenance team. The College seeks over time to minimise reactive maintenance. • To lead the provision of facilities management services to the College (including security, front of house services, cleaning, portering, maintenance and post) ensuring that services, whether operated in house or contracted out, are of a high standard and focus on high quality delivery of service to the customer. • To build strategic relationships with the College’s key suppliers and contractors insofar as they pertain to Estates & Facilities. • To ensure that the College monitors its estate usage and the performance of the estate and its management, overseeing the planning and monitoring necessary to ensure continued improvements in performance against relevant performance indicators.
In an increasingly competitive Higher Education environment, it is vital that our Infrastructure strategy and our day-to-day operational management of the College’s estate support the continued success of Goldsmiths, providing a working environment that meets the needs of our students and staff. The role holder will be accountable for the successful delivery of all elements of our Estates and Facilities provision and will work with the Director of Finance and Chief Information Officer to take joint responsibility for the delivery of Goldsmiths strategic goal of building an efficient and effective infrastructure, as articulated in our strategic plan. An experienced leader and motivator, the role holder will have a record of successfully inspiring and leading a team to deliver across the Estates and Facilities generalist and specialist areas, an ability to lead strategically on all matters relating to the estate with a record of delivering great service, building effective working relationships and demonstrating passion and understanding for estate management in a Higher Education setting. The post-holder will report directly to the Director of Finance and work with colleagues from across the College to support and deliver the mission and values of Goldsmiths. Purpose of the job: • The Director of Estates and Facilities is the strategic lead on all Estates matters and responsible for supporting the achievement of Goldsmiths’ strategic aims through the development and maintenance of its estate infrastructure. • The Director of Estates and Facilities is responsible for leading and managing the Estates and Facilities Department to ensure the delivery of effective campus services for Goldsmiths.
Appointment of Director of Estates and Facilities 7
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