Director of Facilities Management (EHM0078-0818)

Your discipline. Your passion. Our success, together. 

About You 

You will have an established career and profile as a senior leader of estates and facilities teams, focussing on providing the highest quality customer experience.

Passion and enthusiasm for estates and facilities, and developing the people employed within, is essential, as is the ability to initiate, develop and maintain strategic relationships within and beyond the University.

About the Role 

You will be a member of the University Directorate Management Group (DMG) and your work will be integral to realising and supporting the University’s future ambitions. The leader of the largest support team at Edge Hill University; you will be responsible for over 320 members of staff and an extensive supply chain at the 130,000m2 campus, you will embed a culture of customer centricity and benchmark against the very best within and beyond the sector.

You will ensure that the campus is safe, welcoming, inspiring and inclusive, and that the facilities, services and underpinning infrastructure, continues to make a positive contribution to the attraction, recruitment and retention of students. 

Rewards/Benefits

Working at Edge Hill means working in a distinctly empowering environment, where culture and collaboration are valued above traditional process-driven thinking. This is a workplace where you can really make a difference.

As a senior colleague at Edge Hill University you will have access to a generous pension scheme, with optional corporate healthcare and extensive development opportunities.

About Us

“A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

Edge Hill is ranked Gold in the national Teaching Excellence Framework, which measures success in teaching quality, learning environment and student employability outcomes. 

The Gold award – which has been given to just the top 20% of institutions in the UK and only three Universities in the North West – indicates that teaching at Edge Hill is of ‘the highest quality found in the UK.’ Edge Hill is one of the select few universities to have held the coveted UK University of the Year title, awarded by Times Higher Education (2014/15).

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and rewarding environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a meal on the evening of Thursday 18 October prior to interview on Friday 19 October.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Steve Igoe, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at steve.igoe@edgehill.ac.uk 

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2018
Category: Senior Manager