Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

As Deputy Director for Estates and Sustainability and a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will be responsible for leading estates and sustainability for the Operations directorate on behalf of DSIT and DESNZ.

This is a high-profile role in a rapidly changing and fast paced environment. You will oversee and manage the strategy and running of the DSIT and DESNZ network of 23 offices ensuring a safe, functional, sustainable and good value for money estate to support the needs of both departments.

Key responsibilities:

• Working with the Finance Business Partner to manage the estates budget of c.£40m per annum, covering resource, building, facilities management, moves and infrastructure improvements costs.
• Managing our estates strategy for 23 sites around the UK, including moves programmes and alignment to central government policies, assurance and controls, maximising value for money through our space utilisation and ensuring we have the capacity to meet our Places for Growth commitments and we act upon user satisfaction.
• Assurance and controls for estates strategy and expenditure by DESNZ and DSIT Partner Organisations, including alignment of strategies to central government policies
• Delivery oversight of a £180m project to deliver new Headquarters to the European Centre for Medium-term Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), acting as Deputy SRO (Delivery) for the project.
• Managing our sustainability strategy and delivery of the current and next iteration of Greening Government Commitments, including maintaining an active staff network and understanding and influencing staff behaviours.
• Designing an operating model for estates and sustainability that enables scale up and on-boarding of other departments, and the provision and recharge of bespoke services where required by departments.
• Using innovation in delivery setting standards for estate services in government, pursuing continuous improvement in service delivery and customer satisfaction.

Skills and experience

Who are we looking for?

• In-depth knowledge and experience of providing estates and sustainability services to multiple end users, managing delivery standards and expectations to ensure client satisfaction, and ensuring that service catalogues are up to date and delivered against.
• Strong experience of managing multiple high-profile projects with competing timelines, including senior stakeholder management.
• Track record of passionate leadership, using innovation and problem skills to deliver high quality results and working collaboratively with very senior stakeholders and delivery partners.
• Strong working experience of budget planning, tracking and making data-based conclusions, to prioritise spending decisions and optimise departmental outcomes.
• Strong leadership background with a focus on creating a positive, inclusive high-performing workplace.
• Degree level or equivalent qualification in a property-related discipline and a member of a relevant professional technical body (e.g. RICS, IWFM, CIOB etc).

Degree level or equivalent qualification in a property-related discipline.

A member of a relevant professional technical body (e.g. RICS, IWFM, CIOB etc).

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

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