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Contracts and Compliance Manager - Fire

Salary: Negotiable

Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

DBS check required: Basic

We are looking for a Contracts and Compliance Manager – Fire to join our dedicated Property Services department. The successful candidate will be responsible for the management and oversight of fire safety servicing, maintenance, testing, and remediation contracts across the A2Dominion property portfolio, ensuring full compliance with statutory obligations and the highest standards of customer safety.

• Contract & Service Delivery Management
• Financial Management & Commercial Oversight
• Performance Monitoring & Data Integrity
• Compliance, Risk & Health and Safety
• Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Management
• Service Development & Continuous Improvement

• Manage the effective delivery of all fire safety servicing, testing, maintenance, and remedial contracts
• Ensure services are delivered in accordance with statutory obligations, best practice, and A2Dominion’s internal governance frameworks
• Oversee the installation of fire safety components and ensure contractors deliver against performance expectations and compliance requirements
• Collaborate with Building Services and other departments to ensure seamless integration of services and optimal customer outcomes

• Maintain financial oversight of delegated fire safety workstreams (c. £3–5m)
• Monitor and control expenditure to ensure budgets and KPIs are achieved
• Contribute to financial planning processes, identify variances, and take corrective action where necessary to protect budgetary performance

• Ensure the accuracy of all contract-related data, including asset information, financial metrics, and compliance KPIs
• Maintain contract records and evidence logs in accordance with the Golden Thread principles for audit and assurance purposes

• Ensure compliance with relevant fire safety legislation (RRFSO), Building Regulations, and internal H&S standards
• Monitor risk areas, elevate compliance concerns, and implement service improvements to mitigate risks

• Work collaboratively with internal teams across Property, Housing, Repairs, and Assets to ensure customer‑focused outcomes
• Engage external stakeholders including contractors, auditors, consultants, and residents to foster trust and transparency
• Provide regular performance and compliance reports to the Senior Contract and Compliance Manager (Fire) and contribute to service planning initiatives

• Contribute to strategies for service innovation, policy development, and procedural enhancement within the Fire Safety Team
• Drive improvements to complaint resolution processes, outstanding works tracking, and cross‑team operational efficiency

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A‑C)
• Level 4 / 5 qualification (preferably in Fire related or management discipline) or relevant experience
• Commitment to undertake relevant vocational study leading to successful professional qualification
• Significant contract management experience and working with various forms of contract
• Significant experience of managing programmes of work greater than £2m
• Experience in high profile high value contract management with demonstrable performance management
• Substantial experience of providing effective customer‑focused services, preferably in a Fire related maintenance or repair setting
• Experience in coordinating, managing, and reporting upon contractor performance
• Knowledge and experience of procurement; developing, procuring and managing Fire Remedial delivery frameworks and direct award contracts
• Excellent IT skills including databases and Microsoft packages with the ability to analyse data, identifying risks, and producing reports from a number of systems
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car

We’re a UK housing association committed to a vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include :

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• In addition, all permanent and fixed‑term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team at

We know some people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If that’s you, we encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align – please get in touch with us to talk it through. At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family‑friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.