Director of Property Band B Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance Property Diocesan Secretary Diocesan Secretary and Chair of Glebe & Buildings Committees All staff in the Property Department Church House Oxford, Langford Locks, Kidlington, OX5 1GF
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The Director of Property role
As a senior leadership role and as a key member of our Senior Management Group (SMG), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective management of the Diocese’s asset and land portfolio. You will be responsible for managing our portfolio of clergy housing, incorporating the homes and workplace of clergy in addition to managing our land and additional property assets. You will be the driving force within the property function in the delivery of the Diocese’s Environmental Action programme. You will lead a dedicated team of 15 property and estate professionals operating across a diverse property function and continually look for new ways to improve efficiencies and performance across our housing, land and commercial portfolios. The appointed Director will ensure that the team continues to deliver a customer focussed property service to it wide ranging group of internal and external stakeholders whilst also developing the property strategy in the mid and long term in line with Diocese’s wider aims and objectives. As the lead property professional, you will work with the team to ensure their continued professional development, act as a mentor and drive the performance of the property team whilst ensuring an innovative and proactive approach to property management.
Christian vision, ethos and principles underpin all aspects of the way the Oxford Board of Finance (ODBF) runs. The post-holder must be committed to ODBF’s principles and values. The Diocese of Oxford is a living, growing network of more than a thousand churches, chaplaincies, and schools across the three counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. More than 2.4 million people live in the Diocese and this number is set to rise by up to half a million over the next decade. The vision of the Diocese is to be a more Christ-like Church for the sake of God’s world: more contemplative, more compassionate, and more courageous. We are actively seeking to be good stewards of the environment, to serve and be advocates for the disadvantaged, to enable everyday faith, to see children, young people and adults come to faith and grow in faith, to plant and grow new congregations and to reimagine the church-school relationship in every place. Our common vision seeks to be emergent, responsive to local need and continuously developing in the light of our changing context.
JOB PURPOSE:
To ensure the effective leadership, development, oversight and performance of the Property department and the management of our property portfolio on behalf of and subject to the direction of the Glebe and Buildings Committees. This will include the provision of a professional management, improvement, repair and maintenance service for all property for which the Board is responsible under Ecclesiastical Measures, notably the Church Property Measure 2018.
To personally lead and coordinate our programme to make our vicarages and DBF corporate property net carbon zero.
To manage the provision of Architectural and Surveying services in respect of development and other Building projects and our custodian trusteeships for parish property.
These will be achieved through the following principal accountabilities:
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