Job Title: Compliance Support
Salary: £39,644 – £48,394
Duration: 12-month FTC
Key Responsibilities
Compliance Coordination
- Monitor day-to-day compliance tasks for UAL’s High-Risk Building (Gardens House), ensuring (but not responsible for) Accommodation Catering & Retail (ACR) operational checks are completed, and information is shared with the Estates Department.
- Maintain organised records of building safety documentation and ensure timely updates are provided to Residence Managers and Estates.
Documentation Tracking & Assurance
- Track FRAs, Building Safety Assessments and Safety Case actions, ensuring operational items are progressed by Residence Managers and technical items are escalated to Estates, as appropriate.
- Provide regular updates to the Estates Risk & Compliance Manager on outstanding or emerging issues.
Operational Liaison
- Work with Residence Managers to ensure inspections, housekeeping checks, PEEPs/GEEPs and other local safety tasks are completed and documented.
- Ensure Estates and Hard FM teams receive accurate and timely operational feedback from Gardens House and, where relevant, other halls.
Golden Thread & Information Support
- Support Estates in maintaining accurate Golden Thread information by supplying validated operational data as required.
- Assist the Residential Operations Manager (Facilities) in coordinating safety-related information flows between ACR and Estates.
Risk & Issue Escalation
- Monitor operational risks within Gardens House and escalate concerns to ACR, Estates or FM contractors as appropriate.
- Support Residence Managers in tracking remedial works relating to H&S in Gardens House and confirming updates are recorded and communicated.
Resident Safety & Emergency Planning
- Review PEEPs and GEEPs for completeness and operational readiness, ensuring Residence Managers maintain accurate records and that Estates/H&S receive required information.
Training Coordination
- Identify operational training needs related to building safety and coordinate relevant sessions with Estates and UAL H&S.
Financial/Administrative Support
- Provide data to support budgeting and forecasting for safety-related operational activities.
Other duties These duties are in addition to the Key responsibilities listed above:
- Perform duties and tasks consistent within the scope of this role as reasonably may be expected and assigned to you from anywhere within the university.
- Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the role.
- You will be meeting with students living in halls who are under 18, or who may be vulnerable adults, so an enhanced DBS check is required for this role.
Essential Skills & Knowledge
- Deep understanding of the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Regulations, and relevant guidance (Approved Document B, BS9991).
- Experience in complex property portfolios, fire engineering, or structural safety.
- Leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Knowledge of Safety Case Reports, Golden Thread, and MOR systems.
- Relevant qualifications (NEBOSH, CIOB, RICS, IFE, etc.) are required for this role.
- Risk management fundamentals training (e.g. to ISO31000)
- Experience of managing compliance within a large portfolio of owned and PBSA buildings.
Key working relationships
- Associate Director, Accommodation, Catering and Retail Services
- Head of Accommodation (Interim)
- Residential Operations Manager (Facilities Management Lead)
- Residential Operations Manager (Business Standards & Compliance)
- Residence Managers
- Residential Maintenance Manager
- Residential Operations Team
- OOH Senior Residence Manager
- OOH Residence Managers
- UAL Health & Safety team
- Associate Director, Facilities Management (Estates)
- Risk and Compliance Manager (Estates)
- Head of Hard Facilities Management (Estates)
- Head of FM Contract Services (Estates)
In addition, please note the following:
- This post supports operational compliance activity within Halls of Residence but does not hold statutory responsibility for building safety, which remains with the relevant duty holders/managers.
- This is not a management post.
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