Head of Estates

Head of Estates

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Job : S/01/26
Job type: Permanent
Location: Riada House
Salary: PO10 (SCP
53-56) £66,243 - £69,852 per annum
Quantity of Posts Available: One
Closing date: Monday 26 Jan 2026 16:00

• Provide leadership and vision in the management, maintenance and control of Council's Estates function and associated statutory responsibilities.
• Devise and continually review strategies and policies and develop initiatives to meet statutory targets.
• Provide advice and analysis to Council, elected members, Town Clerk and Chief Executive and the Strategic Leadership Team to support their policy and decision making.
• Support the Director to create a high performing culture by being an active member of the Head of Service Team agreeing and delivering key strategic and operational priorities.
• Lead transformational change by working with the Council, Director and Senior Management Team ensuring effective integration and convergence of current functions and responsibilities including creating a clear strategic direction.
• Contribute to the development, delivery and review of the Council's vision, corporate strategy and community plan.
• Develop internal and external partnerships that contribute to the delivery of the Council's Corporate and Community Plans.
• Deliver high quality services across the functional area by using performance management to drive continuous improvement and by effectively using council's resources.
• The managerial and operational responsibility for the resources within the service area including staff, physical assets, forecast revenue income/expenditure.
• Ensure that the service area complies with all statutory, legislative and governance requirements including an effective health and safety regime maintaining the safest working environment for our staff and public.

Please Note
Only application forms containing all the information which has been sought will be considered.
The shortlisting panel will base shortlisting decisions on the information contained within the Essential Criteria narrative sections of the application form, however Desirable Criteria may be used. It is the applicant's responsibility to provide sufficient relevant information including dates in this section of the form for each criteria.

A reserve list may be established in order to fill future permanent and temporary posts that may arise for another similar vacancy within the following 12 months. Should a similar post become available within this time period, the post may be offered to those candidates on the reserve list, in order of merit, without the requirement for a further interview. The post may be offered on a full-time, part-time, permanent, temporary or fixed-term basis.

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Seniority level:
Executive

Employment type:

Full-time

Job function:
Other

Industries:
Government Relations Services

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