Head of Estates and Facilities 6 monts contract office based

Job Description

Head of Estates and Facilities (Interim 6 Months) Office based 5 days a week

Location: London
Salary: 54215 per annum
Hours: Full time
DBS: Enhanced
Responsible for: Reception Team and Facilities Officers

Charity People are seeking an experienced and proactive Head of Estates and Facilities to oversee the effective management of estates reception services and health & safety functions across multiple UK sites. This interim role will play a key part in ensuring our centres remain safe welcoming and fully operational for staff and survivors of torture accessing our services. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation the post holder will lead on facilities management maintenance supplier contracts agile working development and strategic health & safety oversight.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Facilities and London Reception teams ensuring highquality service delivery and a proactive solutions-focused approach across all sites.
• Oversee all organisational Health & Safety and security arrangements including policy development risk assessments committee management and implementation of a rolling review programme.
• Manage supplier relationships and service level agreements for cleaning security and planned preventative maintenance ensuring value for money and compliance.
• Lead daytoday and strategic estates management including maintenance insurance procurement of utilities and stationery and project management of building-related initiatives.
• Contribute to organisational Business Continuity planning and implementation ensuring procedures testing and documentation are in place and effective across all offices.

Person Specification

• Significant experience in estates and facilities management across multi-site organisations including both hard and soft services.
• Professional qualifications in facilities management and a NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) in Occupational Health & Safety.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing agile working strategies as well as managing complex building projects and office moves.
• Strong budget management skills with the ability to prepare control and monitor expenditure within a fixed budget.
• High IT literacy and proven ability to deliver a responsive customer-focused facilities service with a commitment to continuous improvement.

The role is closing on 5^th February 2026

Interviews will take place w/c 9^th February 2026

Charity People is a forward thinking inclusive organisation that actively anddeliberately promotes equity diversity and inclusion. We know organisationsthrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment bymatching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespectiveof background e.g. age disability (including hidden disabilities) gender genderidentity or gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy andmaternity race religion or belief or sexual orientation. We do this because webelieve that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we workwith.