University of Huddersfield - AD E&F (Property Services)

University of Huddersfield - AD E&F (Property Services)

Assistant Director of Estates & Facilities (Property Services)

Candidate Brochure

INTRODUCTION The University of Huddersfield is seeking to appoint to the crucial role of Assistant Director of Estates & Facilities (Property Services) within its Estates and Facilities Directorate. The Estates and Facilities Services are instrumental in ensuring facilities offered by the University of Huddersfield to students, staff and visitors are first class, that Huddersfield maintains its strong financial position within the top ten of mainstream universities and has an academic estate that is rated within the top 10% in the UK. Reporting to the Director of Estates and Facilities, the Assistant Director of Estates and Facilities (Property Services) will play a key role in the management, development, planning and financial control of sections within property services including masterplanning and capital development, refurbishment and maintenance, infrastructure management and compliance. The postholder will join at an exciting time for estates strategy development and capital programme delivery, with ambitious plans to deliver a National Health Innovation Campus on the site of the town’s former sports centre, Southgate. This is a great opportunity to join a highly acclaimed and successful team. The Estates and Facilities team were awarded the AUDE University Estates and Facilities Team of the Year in 2019, for excelling in areas from social engagement to strategy, leadership skills and space management. The Estates team were also shortlisted in the 2020 Times Higher Education awards for Outstanding Estates Strategy and Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The role offers a fantastic career progression opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual to play a key part in the continuing and future success of the University and its wider role in the Town and region.

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Introduction The University of Huddersfield Living and Working In Huddersfield Estates & Facilities The role – Job Description and Person Specification Terms and Conditions Working at the University Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Application process

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THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD SUCCESSFUL, GLOBAL AND MODERN – WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

WHY DO NEARLY 20,000 STUDENTS CHOOSE TO STUDY AT HUDDERSFIELD?

Excellence The University of Huddersfield is a growing centre of research and excellence and we always push the boundaries of knowledge. • The University of Huddersfield achieved a Gold Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) award in June 2017. This award expired in June 2021 and the scheme is currently being revised. We look forward to being reassessed when the awards are re-opened in 2023. • We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017). • Our academic staff are continually rated as providing high- quality teaching in an exciting and stimulating environment. In fact, Huddersfield is joint first in England for professionally qualified teaching staff (HESA 2021). • We are joint second for National Teaching Fellowships which mark Britain’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 18 since 2008 (2021 >Page 1 Page 2-3 Page 4-5 Page 6-7 Page 8-9 Page 10-11 Page 12-13 Page 14-15 Page 16-17 Page 18-19 Page 20-21 Page 22-23 Page 24

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