Children’s Services Estates & Asset Management Officer

The Role

Help us create safe, sustainable spaces where children and young people can thrive

Do you see yourself making a difference by ensuring our schools and children’s services buildings are safe, fit for purpose, and future-ready?

Can you use your estates and asset management expertise to improve learning environments across Southwark?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you!

Our Children’s Services Transformation & Operations team is looking for a dedicated Children’s Services Estates & Asset Management Officer to join us and help deliver safe, sustainable and inspiring environments for our children and young people.

About the Role:

As the lead internal commissioner for estates and asset management within Children’s Services, you’ll:

• Oversee and commission asset management, compliance and capital works projects.
• Act as the key link between schools, children’s services, and wider council delivery teams.
• Manage the Children’s Services Capital & Asset Management Board.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and statutory requirements across the children’s services estate.
• Report on capital programmes and allocations, ensuring effective use of resources to support sustainable education provision.

About You:

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Strong experience in estates, facilities, or asset management.
• A customer-focused, solutions-driven approach.
• The ability to build and maintain positive relationships with schools, services, and council teams.
• Knowledge of compliance and health & safety requirements in a property management context.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage complex projects and competing priorities.

About the Team:

You’ll join our Transformation & Operations Service, part of Children’s and Adults’ Services. We bring together strategy, policy, business intelligence, programmes, and asset management to deliver positive change.

We are passionate about creating safe, sustainable, and supportive environments for children and young people – and we’d love you to be part of it.

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Michael Crowe at .uk.

Additional Information:

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

Advert close date: 11:59pm on 12th September 2025

Shortlisting date/s: 15th September 2025

Interview date/s: 18th September 2025

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. We strongly advise you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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