City of Portsmouth College committed to embedding sustainability as a core value throughout its operations and its transition toward net zero, the post holder shall work closely with the Director of Operations on the delivery of its sustainability strategy as the College traverses its carbon reduction journey.

The post will be based at our North Harbour Campus or Highbury Campus. It is an industry-led training environment includes modern, spacious facilities and this centre hosts a wide range of construction and building services courses and apprenticeships, delivered by professionals with extensive industry backgrounds who bring valuable real-world insight into the learning environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead and develop a professional customer focused team.
• To have a good understanding of financial and procurement operations including management of contractors.
• Lead the efforts to process all estates related purchase orders.
• Receipting all goods received and processing/checking consequential invoices.
• Analysing utilities bills and liaising with suppliers to address any anomalies.
• To have a good knowledge of financial year end procedures.
• To manage Cleaning Supervisors to ensure departmental budget expenditure is managed, monitored, and controlled in accordance with College financial policies and procedures.
• Leading the Cleaning Supervisors to provide general administrative support and management of any estates data bases and SharePoint data.
• Assist Head of Estates & Facilities with external bookings including liaising with external customers, all paperwork, co-ordination of services, raising invoices and completing information updates.
• To provide support to other College management as directed by the Head of Estates & Facilities.
• To support the Director of Estates with the delivery of the College’s Sustainability Strategy, leading on projects that will impact and reduce our environmental footprint.
• Work collaboratively with Stakeholders across the College to ensure optimum utilisation of space and Estates resources whilst minimising utility consumption.
• To promote sustainable environmental management practice across the four campuses, assisting with the development of an environmental management system.
• To identify opportunities to enhance positive environmental impacts across the college.
• Develop and deliver a waste minimisation program embedding principles of the circular economy within our models for resource usage.

To be successful in this role, below is what we would need from you:

• Membership of a relevant professional body, e.g., IWFM, IEMA, desirable.
• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent in Sustainability, Engineering, or another related subject, desirable.
• Equivalent job role dealing with financial, administrative, and environmental functions
• Good understanding of financial systems & operations
• Excellent IT skills including good working knowledge of Microsoft packages & financial software systems.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are central to the work of City of Portsmouth College. This underpins the vision of the College to transform lives through providing exceptional education and training.

The College’s commitment to Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is reflected in the continued successful promotion of these strands through the curriculum, enrichment activities, and the range of direct and indirect student support services.

Pre-Employment Checks:

The City of Portsmouth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our college. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and two references.

We reserve the right to close the job advert when we have had successful applications, and it may not run for the full duration of the advert. We do not accept CVs from agencies for these roles.