Job Description

Education, Skills & Early Years


Lifelong Learning


Facilities and Business Team Leader

Ref:

000979

Contract:

Permanent

Salary:

31,537 - 34,434 per annum (Grade 5)

Hours:

36.66 per week

Location

: Oldham Council, Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, The Cultural Quarter, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL

Closing Date:

Wednesday 27th August 2025

Interviews:

10th and 11th September 2025

Role Overview:

We're looking for a proactive individual to provide high-level business and facilities support within our Lifelong Learning team. This role involves delivering specialist administrative services for the senior management team, coordinating resources, and managing facilities staff to ensure smooth operations and excellent service delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the administration of additional service projects, ensuring all business contract requirements are met and delivered to a high standard Maintain and monitor key data, ensuring timely updates across databases and spreadsheets and regularly report progress to the Senior Management Team (SMT). Coordinate training sessions and meetings, including SMT diary management, room bookings, venue arrangements and attendance tracking. Use initiative to schedule dates and ensure refreshments are in place in line with Council policy. Oversee caretaking services across Lifelong Learning Centres and the Kier Project Co corporate PFI contract. This includes performance management, appraisals, workload prioritisation, and contract monitoring to ensure centres are safe, secure, and welcoming. Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards by maintaining fire and incident plans, risk assessments and security policies, while working closely with internal teams and external partners to meet Council, HSE and service level agreement requirements.

Key Requirements:

Excellent organisation skills with experience of managing data, coordinating meetings and handling diaries and bookings efficiently. Clear communication skills and attention to detail with the ability to cascade information accurately and note take and follow procedures effectively. Teamworking skills to work effectively with others to meet deadlines and complete work to the required standards.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the 'About You' or 'Supporting Statement' section of your application.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We've identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:


A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.


We're looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are '

Proud, Ambitious,

and

Together'

, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.


We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

Work with a resident focus Support local leaders Committed to the borough Delivery high performance Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years' service The option to purchase additional annual leave. An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions. Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active. Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more. Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work. Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support. Staff recognition and celebration events. Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.


If you're an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer or someone who has served in the Armed Forces and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our

Guaranteed Assessment Scheme

.

Data and Privacy:

For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice.

Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.


While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Oldham Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.