Property Manager

Property Manager
Salary: GBP23,500 to GBP28,500 - Depending on skills and experience.
Contract: Permanent role.
Working Hours: 37.5 hours (flexible between the hours of 8am - 6pm) Occasional work outside these hours required.
Location: Based in Manchester, frequent travel to Sheffield and occasional travel to other cities within the UK.
Deadline to apply: 9am on Monday 14th October 2019

Role Summary
A unique opportunity for an enthusiastic individual, who shares our values, to work for one of the UK's leading social businesses. You will ensure that properties in Manchester and Sheffield are well managed and attractive places for our tenants to be based and that they operate in accordance with our ethical and environmental principles.

You will be based in Manchester, at The Green Fish Resource Centre, where you will be responsible for day to day management, as well as overseeing and coordinating the work of the Assistant Property Manager, based at Scotia Works in Sheffield. In the future it is hoped that we will add to the property portfolio and the job will expand to cover any growth in this area.

You will part of the North and Midlands Regional team and will supported in your role by the Regional Manager.

You will network with other colleagues across the Company, including those based in our head office in Oxford, and will participate in the property managers' forum meetings.

The Ethical Property Company
Founded 20 years ago, the Ethical Property Company provides affordable workspace to charities, community groups, campaigns and social businesses working for a fairer and more sustainable society. From humble beginnings, the company has grown steadily and now owns or manages 23 centres across the UK providing affordable office, retail and conference space to over 1,000 social change organisations. Flexible leasing arrangements provide our tenants with long-term security and working alongside like-minded organisations offers them influence-enhancing networking opportunities.

Property Management

You will be responsible for:
* Being the first point of contact for tenants' queries, helping to establish and maintain excellent communication with our tenant organisations in the Green Fish Resource Centre and Scotia Works
* Ensuring that the buildings are presented to a very high standard at all times
* All building-related issues, communicating these effectively to contractors and ensuring timely and cost-effective resolution of all building-related problems
* Procuring and implementing contracts for routine maintenance for plant/machinery and services and for carrying out routine periodic testing of fire systems, legionella prevention, etc.
* Facilities management within the building such as cleaning (including the line management of our Cleaners), fire safety systems, security systems, waste and recycling provision, liaising with our IT provider EthicalIT (EIT), and internal building signage
* Compliance with Health and Safety legislation including risk assessments, fire risk assessments, testing of health and safety systems and equipment
* Approving invoices
* Ensuring centre documentation is adequately maintained, including Codes of Practice, Building Logs, Periodic Inspection sheets, and Plant Service and Maintenance documentation
* Managing moving in/out of tenants, and showing prospective tenants around the building
* Managing the work of the Assistant Property Manager, who is based in Sheffield
* Any other duties related to the management of the properties in your area as required.

Environmental Reporting and Utilities Management

You will be responsible for:
* Liaising with colleagues, as required, on the production of utility usage charts and environmental performance charts
* Identifying potential usage issues with Property Managers and/or Centre Managers.

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Experience:
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work, multi-task and remain flexible
* Experience of line management
* Good standard of spoken and written English
* Strong communication skills, with experience of communicating at all levels
* Good level of numeracy
* The ability to act quickly and effectively using own initiative
* Ability to be a team-player
* Trustworthiness and reliability
* Experience of providing quality services to customers
* Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
* Experience of risk assessment for health and safety purposes
* Commitment to social and environmental issues
* Some experience of working in social and environmental sector
* Some experience of working in facilities management.

Contractual Details
This is a permanent role with a three-month probationary period. Benefits include 25 days holiday entitlement (pro-rata) in addition to statutory public bank holidays. The post is full time working 37.5 hours a week split regularly between Monday and Friday. The salary range is GBP23,500 - GBP28,500, depending on skills and experience.

We offer a company pension contribution up to 7%, a free company bicycle scheme with bicycle maintenance costs, season ticket loans, interest free personal loans, as well as other benefits.

Please note, you must be eligible to work in the UK in order to apply for this role. No agencies please.

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