Head of Facilities

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a historic organization as the Head of Facilities, where you will lead the management of a renowned building with a profound social purpose. This role offers the chance to oversee maintenance, ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, and manage a sizeable budget while focusing on sustainability. You'll be at the forefront of creating a safe and welcoming environment for diverse groups, contributing to a legacy of social impact. If you're passionate about facilities management and making a difference, this is your opportunity to shine in a dynamic and supportive setting.

Benefits

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing allowance

Free fellowship throughout employment

Additional benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in facilities management and team leadership.
• Expertise in health and safety legislation and building regulations.
• Proficient in managing sizable facilities budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance and management of all buildings and facilities services.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety and relevant legislation.
• Manage facilities budget and focus on sustainability initiatives.

Skills

Facilities Management

Health and Safety Legislation

Budget Management

Building Regulations

Team Leadership

Job description

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Are you an experienced facilities and buildings manager or supervisor looking for your next challenge?

You may be seeking a step up from your current role, or a move to a historic building owned by a charity with a real social purpose.

Come and join us at RSA House based just off the Strand, adjacent to Charing Cross station in central London.

With our new Design for Life strategy, the RSA is embarking on the next chapter in our 260 years’ strong history of social impact, with a range of interventions to unite people and ideas to turn world changing ideas into world changing actions.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Head of Facilities to lead the maintenance and management of all buildings and facilities services and take responsibility for health and safety and security within our historic RSA House.

The House comprises 8 floors including Grade I and II listed spaces with 3 office floors, large public spaces and venue hire for up to 500 visitors and guests. We have a Coffee House, cinema and many historical rooms including ‘The Great Room’ displaying James Barry’s murals ‘The Progress of Hunan Knowledge and Culture’. RSA House is open to our 31,000 Fellows (members), wedding guests, conferences, meeting and party attendees, filming, product launches and publicity events and the general public.

Key areas of focus will be:

• Direct, plan and ensure the successful implementation of all maintenance works for RSA House both internally and externally including the structural aspects of the building, all services including electrical works and all fixtures and fittings.
• Lead the facilities team to ensure a secure 24/7 facilities service is available for RSA House to service our wide-ranging activities including those of our catering and hospitality partners.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety, buildings, equality, sustainability, environmental and other relevant legislation to ensure our building is safe, compliant, and run in-line with the latest best-practice and in service of the diverse groups we engage with.
• Efficiently manage the sizeable facilities budget including operational and Capital Expenditure.
• Maintain a continual focus on sustainability to ensure all facilities work is undertaken with the RSA’s regenerative mission front and centre – focussing on the green agenda.

This role is based on-site at RSA House in London.

About You

What we are seeking from the successful candidate:

• Extensive facilities management background including managing others to deliver a fulsome buildings service.
• Experience in developing and managing sizeable facilities budgets including a deep understanding of costs involved to successfully run a large building Experience of negotiating with and the supervision of external suppliers and contractors.
• Expert knowledge of health and safety legislation, building regulations and other relevant legislation and best-practice guidance.
• An interest in improving the regenerative potential of a building and the services it provides in line with the RSA’s mission.

To find out more about this role, please download our job description

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 18 September 2023. However, screening will be ongoing, so we may close the vacancy early if sufficient exceptional candidates apply. Please get your application in as soon as possible. First round interviews will be on 21 September and second interviews the following week.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Inclusion Statement

As a social change organisation, we believe everyone, regardless of visible or invisible difference, should be welcomed to participate in creating a better future.

We aspire to maximum inclusion in our work and endeavour to challenge systemic inequity and all forms of discrimination. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who is committed to our vision and values and can demonstrate the skills, competencies and experience required for the role applied for.

Read full our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion .

About Us

We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Where world-leading ideas are turned into world-changing actions. We’re committed to a world that is resilient, rebalanced and regenerative, where everyone can fulfil their potential.

The RSA has been at the forefront of significant social impact for over 260 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and unique global network of changemakers, work collectively to enable people, places and the planet to flourish.

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas in collective action to create opportunities to regenerate our world.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more! Read our full list of benefits .