# Estates Director **Company**: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office **Location**: East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: GBP 105,000 - 162,500 per year **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Government & Public Sector **Apply**: https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/estates-director-102967?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f26f2827-a08 ## Description The Estates Director will lead the transformation and stewardship of an estate unique to the United Kingdom. The FCDO’s £2.5bn global property estate spans 180 countries and comprises approximately 6,800 assets, including embassies, ambassadorial residences and staff accommodation. This is a pivotal leadership role at a time of significant organisational change. You will set the strategic direction for the FCDO estate and oversee the accelerated delivery of a major global transformation programme, ensuring the estate is secure, resilient, sustainable, and aligned with the UK’s diplomatic, development and security objectives. The role will focus on reshaping the estate to reflect the FCDO’s global priorities and footprint in today’s challenging international context. A central element of the role will be refreshing the global estates strategy alongside the leadership of a significant, multi-year capital investment and refurbishment programme across the global estate, encompassing new builds, major renewals and complex heritage assets. You will lead a team overseeing health and safety performance and reducing carbon emissions whilst strengthening governance, assurance and delivery capability across a highly complex international portfolio. **Responsibilities:** - Developing and delivering the FCDO Estates Strategy to 2030 and beyond, maximising value from the global estate by optimising utilisation, prioritising investment and project delivery across purchase, lease, new build and refurbishment, and identifying surplus or under-performing assets for disposal or alternative use. - Providing clear and inclusive leadership to a diverse and geographically dispersed estates function, ensuring the organisation has the capability and capacity required to deliver on its priorities, and leading and developing the senior management team through clear delegation, accountability and performance expectations. - Designing and embedding a world-class estates operating model that reduces risk, improves efficiency and strengthens governance and assurance across a complex, internationally delivered portfolio. - Providing executive leadership for estates programmes and operations, including major capital projects, facilities management and life-support contracts. - Leading the financial and commercial stewardship of the global estate, managing substantial capital and revenue budgets across a portfolio of approximately 6,800 assets. - Managing strategic relationships with OneHMG partners and other government departments across the overseas platform to ensure effective co-ordination, value for money and alignment of estates delivery. - Providing authoritative advice and leadership on all estates and property matters, offering timely, well-judged input to senior leaders on risk, investment, estates development, delivery and assurance. **Person specification:** The Civil Service is open to talented people from any career background; we will always seek to identify transferable skills from the individual’s experience. **Essential Criteria:** - Estates leadership and strategic capability – Demonstrable credibility as a senior enterprise leader responsible for large-scale geographically dispersed estates functions, with experience setting strategy, transforming operating models, and leading end-to-end delivery across complex portfolios. - Programme and project leadership at scale – Proven experience leading major, multi-year estates, infrastructure or property transformation programmes. - Financial Acumen – Demonstrable commercial leadership capability, including responsibility for substantial capital and operational budgets. - Delivery in complex and international environments – Experience delivering estates outcomes in complex contexts. - Influence, Partnership and Stakeholder Leadership – A track record of operating at senior levels across industry and/or government, influencing Ministers or boards and executive teams. **Benefits:** Alongside your salary of £105,000, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes £30,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. - Learning and development tailored to your role - An environment with flexible working options - A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity - A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% ## Skills ### Required - estates leadership - strategic capability - programme and project leadership - financial acumen - delivery in complex environments - influence and stakeholder leadership --- Source: [Apply at jobsgopublic.com](https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/estates-director-102967?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)