Background
The role is a crucial post in ensuring that the activity within the Estates, Environment and Facilities directorate across the multi campus estate is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all operational and project service provisions. It requires highly developed and emotionally astute leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individual and teams to achieve departmental targets for compliance.
Responsibilities
The role will provide effective compliance assurance, risk management, and business continuity coordination ensuring the compliance needs of, statutory and mandatory requirements are measured and met to agreed deadlines with a specific responsibility for reviewing, commenting and providing technical solution for potential challenges. In addition, the post holder will be supporting, co-developing and shaping plans and processes to ensure the directorate and the university remain safe and wholly compliant at all times. Key to success is the ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
Person Specification
This position is suited to a dynamic, problem solver who cares about output and improvement. It is suited to someone who wishes to work alongside senior colleagues to continuously drive improvement throughout the directorate and provide assurance across all aspects of technical estates compliance. The incumbent will work with the senior team to ensure that proactive risk management is embedded in all processes for greater assurance and improved safety, and that local incident response plans and business continuity plans remain relevant, refined and optimised.