Facilities Assistant Manager

1 month ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom World Vision Remote Work Freelance Full time

Facilities Assistant Manager

We re looking for an experienced Facilities Assistant Manager to join an important charity helping vulnerable children across the world.

Position: Facilities Assistant Manager

Location: Milton Keynes

Hours: Full-time - 36.5 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term for 5 months (1 May 2024 until 30 Sept 2024)

Salary: £30,874 per annum FTE + good range of benefits

Closing date: 19th April 2024

About the role:

As Facilities Assistant Manager, you will deliver the day-to-day provision of quality support services at the organisation, ensuring excellence and the best value to the organisation. You will ensure Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Compliance in our activities, training, and empowering colleagues as necessary. You will support remote workers and those at Hubs as per service standards. You will also provide full cover for the Central Services Manager in his/her absence (Operations and People).

The position is varied and interesting and, at any time during your working day you could be involved in duties from maintaining, checking, and receipting deliveries, ordering stock and stationery, managing meeting room and common area requirements, to supporting relationships with external users of our facilities and providing occasional admin support in respect of budgeting and invoice processing. You will also be expected to provide occasional reception cover. Overall, you will ensure that the support capacity you offer is well-organised, efficient, and delivered in a timely and professional way.

Key areas of responsibility include:

  • Ensure day-to-day activities pertaining to the building and building services including routine maintenance, fault reporting and rectification if appropriate, are carried out.
  • Undertake reviews of key suppliers and contractors to ensure the organisation is getting the best value, negotiating terms where necessary and making recommendations to the Central Services Manager.
  • Manage regular and ad hoc external contractors such as security, cleaning, and maintenance, including scope and timing of work, quality control and change requests, within our Safeguarding protocols.
  • Monitor, review, and administer Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental systems to maintain and improve (through training, policy change and empowerment) our performance and to ensure all legal requirements are met. Provide staff training and investigate accidents and incidents when required. Providing regular reports.

Key skills required for this role:

  • A level of education, or equivalent
  • Good organisational and administrative skills. Track record of successful staff supervision/management.
  • A practical, solution and service focused approach to problem solving. Knowing what can be done internally, and which contractors need to be brought in when.
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to multi-task, manage contractors and respond positively to changing priorities.
  • Communicates clearly and consistently to multiple audiences.
  • Knowledge and experience of current FM best practices, Building Management, physical security etc.
  • The ability to effect minor repairs within the building in an efficient manner.

About the organisation:

The organisation is an international children s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries. Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy they ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. As a Christian organisation, everything they do is motivated by their faith as they strive to reflect God s unconditional love.

As a child-focused organisation, they are committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

The organisation is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and they shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. They will be requesting you to complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct.

Please note the organisation can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client s Christian mission, values, culture and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

You may also have experience in areas such as: Facilities, Facilities Officer, Facilities Assistant, Facilities Manager, Facilities Executive, Facilities Coordinator, Facilities Admin, Facilities Administrator, Facilities Administration, Onsite Assistant, Estates, Estates Assistant, Estates Officer.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

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