Building manager
- Employer
- St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £34,000 per year pro rata
- Closing date
- 2 Jan 2020
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- Sector
- Senior Management
- Hours
- Part Time
- Flexibility
- Set hours
- Contract Type
- Contract
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As Building Manger, you’ll be looking after an utterly unique space in the heart of London. You’ll need a passion for caring for beautiful spaces, an eye for detail, an ability to research and come up with creative solutions, a high level of independence, and strong experience of building management.
You’ll be joining a dynamic, values-driven team, working within a multi-faith environment. Diversity is important to us, and we are especially interested to hear from people with a range of faiths and backgrounds. Ideally you will bring both practicality and a love for beauty to the role.
This is a part-time role (2.5 days a week, ideally split over 5 mornings, timing negotiable).
Salary: £34k pro rata.
Deadline: 5pm 13th December. Interviews in early January.
To apply, please send us your CV and covering letter
St Ethelburga’s Centre:
St Ethelburga's is a 15th Century grade 1 listed church building, hidden between towering glass office blocks of the City of London. Having survived the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, it was almost completely destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993. It was rebuilt and opened as a Centre for reconciliation and peace in 2002. In 2010 a Bedouin Tent, was added within the magical courtyard garden for people of all backgrounds and faiths to come together in community.
Today St Ethelburga’s is a thriving voluntary organisation running programmes that inspire people to work across cultures, becoming peace-makers in their own contexts and lives. We run leadership programmes for young adults, we work with refugees and asylum seekers, and we host a diverse range of public events, trainings, music events and workshops.
Duties will include:
One-off projects:
Manage, supervise and coordinate the work of contractors for complex renovation projects and building improvements
Day-to-day:
Manage planned maintenance to keep a high level of upkeep, décor and cleanliness throughout the building and garden (including calculating and comparing costs, supervising works, and following up on any deficiencies)
Deal promptly with maintenance issues and any building related urgencies as they arise
Monitor spending and manage the building budget
Manage relationship with neighbouring corporate contractors
Manage equipment, storage (tech equipment, furniture etc)
Health and safety:
Health and Safety - keep policies up to date, keep procedures current and relevant, report to the board
Lead or coordinate team trainings and updates to reinforce staff practices
Undertake fire alarm tests, organise team practice evacuations
Improve energy efficiency where possible and work towards silver eco-church status
Security:
Coordinate building security
Respond to occasional out-of-hours emergencies
Team involvement:
Be the first point of contact for the team for any building related issues
Attend a monthly team meeting
Coordinate volunteers where needed
Possibilities for the role
There’s scope for the role to evolve around the interests of the successful applicant, and some possibilities include:
Fundraising – preparing funding applications for discrete building improvements and projects
Design and decoration projects
Developing a team of practical building-care volunteers
Leading history and story-telling projects
Meetings and supervision
Your line manager will be the COO
You’ll work closely with the office manager and venue hire manager on day-to-day issues
A member of the board of trustees will be responsible for overseeing H&S
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