We Are Hiring: Head of Facilities & Capital

Main Purpose of the Role

This is a new senior role responsible for the strategic management and development of the facilities operated by Bricks, including St Anne’s House and Bristol Community Sauna. The role will ensure our buildings are safe, accessible, welcoming, well-maintained and financially sustainable, while supporting the facilities needs of future spaces as they come into operation.

The role will also lead Bricks major capital and retrofit programme for St Anne’s House, working with colleagues, consultants, contractors and stakeholders to ensure the building is fit for the future and supports Bricks’ charitable, environmental and commercial ambitions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Main elements of the role

• Facilities Management and Estates
• Capital Programme
• Bristol Community Sauna Operations
• Compliance, Risk and Health and Safety
• Tenants and Workspaces
• Income and Social Enterprise Development
• Finance, Forecasting and Budgeting
• Team Management and Senior Management Team Contributions
• Sustainability and Social Impact

Person Specification:

Essential

• Strong understanding of health and safety, risk management and compliance in a building or facilities context.
• Experience managing building, capital or retrofit projects, including budgets, timelines, contractors and external consultants.
• Strong knowledge of policies, procedures and legislation relating to the safe, compliant and effective operation of buildings.
• Experience managing tenanted or shared-use spaces and developing positive relationships with tenants and users.
• Experience of managing building maintenance, planned works, contractors and building systems.
• Experience of financial management, including budgets, forecasting and monitoring expenditure.
• Strong communication and relationship-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with staff, tenants, contractors, trustees and external stakeholders.

Desirable

We don’t expect candidates to have experience of all of these areas. We’re interested in hearing about relevant experience and transferable skills.

• Experience of running wellbeing, sports or health facilities. 
• Experience managing or developing buildings from a similar period, particularly 1950’s buildings.
• Experience of leading capital, retrofit or sustainability projects.
• Experience of improving accessibility and inclusion within buildings and facilities.
• Experience working in arts, community, cultural, charitable or social enterprise settings.

TO APPLY

How to apply

Bricks strives to promote equality and diversity at all levels of our team. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive in our ways of working, and to being a place where all belong.

We value diversity and inclusion, and we especially welcome applications from people who identify as LGBTQIA+, D/disabled or D/deaf, from the global majority or from working class backgrounds.

Pre application

– Download the Job Pack

– We welcome job share proposals, whether you’re applying with a partner or on your own. Please let us know in your application if this is something

– We also recognise that candidates may bring stronger experience in either capital projects or facilities management, rather than both. We’d still love to hear from you, so please apply and tell us where your strengths lie.

– If you require this job description in another format please contact us

hr@bricksbristol.org

– FAQ will be listed on this document

– If your question is not answered on the FAQ document, please email hr@bricksbristol.org with your question.

Application

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the personal statement section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

Apply for this role by completing our application form.

– Application Form here.

You can use video/audio as part of your application in place of a cover letter, which can be up to 5 minutes long.

Bricks strives to promote equality and diversity at all levels of our team. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive in our ways of working, and to being a place where all belong.  We therefore particularly encourage applications from you if you are from a background that is underrepresented in the sector, for example if you are from a community that experiences racism or you are a disabled person (as defined by the Equalities Act 2010), you did not go to University or had free school meals as a child.

We believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and want to welcome the whole person to work.  Our staff are not appointed to represent specific groups or organisations, but to represent themselves and their own experiences and perspectives.

We welcome feedback on how we can improve our recruitment processes, you can do this via email to hr@bricksbristol.org or via this anonymous form: here.