About You
You will possess proven experience and a track record of successfully leading the development and implementation of space and workplace strategies at a senior and influential level, preferably in a Higher Education environment.
The successful candidates will establish a strong evidence base for space management and planning, including the production and analysis of utilisation data, establishing benchmarks, and constructing scenario plans to forecast the demand for space. The Space Managers will work closely with our internal clients at a tactical and strategic level to ensure that facilities are fit for purpose and achieve optimum use of space.
About Role
Reporting to the Head of Space Planning, the successful candidates will work at a strategic and operational level to plan and advise on campus space planning options and space requirements for the short, medium and long term.
The Space Manager will play a pivotal role in improving the way the University uses its space, supports strategic growth, improves the utilisation of the estate, and enhances workplace experience.
About the Directorate
The Estates and Facilities Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the university and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the university’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness.
Details about the Estates and Facilities Directorate can be found at: https://qmul.ac.uk/estates
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
£54,617 to £60,901 per annum