Assistant Director of Estates Operations

**Position Details**

Estates

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £56,921 to £65,814 with potential progression once in post to £85,544

Grade: 9

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 19th January 2025

UK travel may be required for this role

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

**Background**

The University of Birmingham Estates Office is responsible for both the master planning and stewardship of our extensive estate. Our team is made up of over 180 dedicated members of staff including apprentices all striving to deliver a world class university experience for the benefit of all students, staff, academics and visitors. After our staff, our physical estate is the largest single enabler for our world-class teaching, research and providing a fantastic student experience.

Specifically, the University Estates Department provide maintenance, operations, projects and grounds service to the University of Birmingham’s built environment. We operate up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all through the year to keep the University running efficiently and effectively.

Our estate is large and varied covering 672 acres, with over 200 buildings of different ages, complexities, physical condition and use, ranging from grade one and two listed properties to brand new state-of-the-art learning and research spaces. It consists of two main campus sites (Edgbaston & Selly Oak) along with properties in Stratford-upon-Avon, Ansty (near Coventry), Coniston (in Cumbria), and Dubai. The total gross internal area of the estate is over 500,000 m 2 and 74% of the non-residential estate is in building condition A and B. We typically spend circa £9m on energy and water each year.

We are committed to sustainability and have achieved a 20% reduction in CO 2 four years ahead of target and we generate 75% of our own energy via on site combined heat and power plants. Furthermore, we continue to reduce our carbon footprint by 3,000 tonnes per year on average and maintain more than 9,200 trees.

This is an opportunity to help take the University of Birmingham on the journey to become a Top 50 Global University following decades of being one of the most successful and important Universities in the UK.

The Assistant Director of Estates Operations will lead and manage a team of over two hundred staff and contractors to deliver planned, statutory, and reactive maintenance to over 250 buildings, at one of the most beautiful and distinctive Russell Group universities.

With the arrival of a new Director of Estates this spring, the department is ready to deliver service transformation and put customer service at the heart of what we do and make significant investments in maintaining our legacy buildings as well as continuing to invest in our capital programme.

As we prepare to celebrate our 125 th Anniversary Year, there has never