OXFORD UNIVERSITY – JESUS COLLEGE: Director of Lodging, Catering & Conferences (Referred to Elsewhere as Home Bursar)

We invite you to hitch us right here at Jesus School as we proceed our journey into an thrilling new chapter in our historical past.

Jesus School presents a very particular mixture of options. We’re dedicated to the best requirements of educational excellence, but in addition have an off-the-cuff, inclusive, vibrant and supportive community of employees, college students, Fellows, and tutors. We consider {that a} numerous community is a stronger community, and our School members come from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities.

It is a vital second within the School’s historical past. Having celebrated our 450th anniversary in 2021, reflecting on the historic milestones which have created the School we’re right this moment, we proceed to look to the longer term: a way forward for revolutionary studying and research within the digital age; a way forward for elevated inclusivity, variety and equality; a future the place we respect custom but in addition attain out to embrace the brand new. We accomplish that with enthusiasm and confidence, within the data that the magnificent new Cheng Constructing, which opened in 2022 within the coronary heart of Oxford, permits us to supply state-of-the-art amenities for teaching, research, and conferences, whereas considerably growing our lodging capability for Fellows and college students at our central website.

The position

The first goal of the Director of Lodging, Catering, and Conferences (DACC / typically known as the Home Bursar elsewhere) is to direct the supply of cost-effective providers for our world-class college students, employees, and Fellows, in addition to convention friends and different industrial prospects.  A selected focus might be on leveraging our newly-built, state-of-the-art, Central Oxford occasion house – the Cheng Constructing.

The DACC offers each management and management of the Lodging, Catering, and Conferences (ACC) workforce to ship a dependable, high-quality service persistently all year long. This consists of the next features: lodging, housekeeping, catering, conferencing and occasions, Lodge, and security.

In addition to delivering a service for members of the School, Fellowship and alumni community, the division additionally has a industrial goal to generate revenue for the School from conferences and different exterior events. The DACC should maintain each inner and exterior stakeholders in thoughts when creating plans and operating providers. The School hosts on common 250 inner occasions per yr for School members and alumni throughout time period, and round 200 occasions outdoors of time period for exterior stakeholders – together with quite a lot of massive residential summer season faculties.

The DACC is an Official Fellow of the School, a member of its Governing Physique, and a trustee of the charity. The postholder can be anticipated to take part totally in School life and to interact with colleagues throughout the collegiate College as applicable.

The position is right for an bold particular person, with the best integrity and regard for excellence in hospitality. A key management position inside the Jesus School community, confirmed expertise of main a number of departments and groups is important for this position, in addition to vital management expertise at a strategic and operational degree – ideally inside the hospitality business or related equal. Business acumen in addition to sturdy individuals abilities might be required to steer the workforce to success. A demonstrable collaborative method and an understanding of the collegiate community dynamics would even be advantageous.

Important abilities and expertise

• Confirmed management expertise, together with managing and interesting a number of departments and groups.
• Important management expertise at a strategic and operational degree – ideally inside the hospitality business or related equal.
• Commercially adept, with enterprise acumen.
• Expertise in strategic planning and budget management.
• Glorious interpersonal and communication skills.
• Capability to construct and keep optimistic cross-functional relationships to realize frequent objectives.
• Pushed to satisfy and ship persistently excessive requirements in all areas of labor.
• Capability for managing a number of priorities and deadlines, in addition to cope with fast operational wants.
• Sturdy written communication skills, and the flexibility to develop and current compelling enterprise circumstances to committees and the Governing Physique.
• Excessive proficiency in IT.
• Dedication to the goals and ethos of upper education.

Fascinating abilities and expertise

• Qualification in hotel, convention, or occasion management.
• Excessive-end hospitality expertise.
• Well being and Security Administration qualification (e.g., IOSH).
• Private License Holder.
• Information of GDPR/Knowledge Safety.

Extra data

This position is full-time (35 hours per week) with flexibility required to satisfy enterprise wants and oversee occasions. Because of the operational nature of the position, the postholder must be each visible and accessible, and might be required on-site more often than not.

The wage for the position is within the area of £85,000 each year. Remuneration for the position might be supplied relying on the abilities and expertise of the suitable candidate.

Advantages embrace 38 days’ vacation (inclusive of Financial institution Holidays), a beneficiant pension scheme, non-public medical insurance, Cycle to Work and Electrical Automobile wage sacrifice schemes, 24/7 entry to our Worker Help Programme, and safe on-site bike parking.

As well as, Fellows of the School are additionally entitled to lunch and dinner – freed from cost – with members of the Senior Widespread Room throughout time period and trip (besides when the kitchens are closed), and are entitled to dine freed from cost in any respect School feasts.

For full particulars of the position, go to our web site: www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/vacancies. When you’ve got any questions concerning the position, or require additional data, please contact HR@jesus.ox.ac.uk.

Deadline: Midday on Friday twenty first June.

Interviews: First stage interviews might be held by way of Groups on ninth July and final-stage interviews might be held in-person at Jesus School on sixteenth July.

To use: Please ship a CV and protecting letter that units out your expertise for this position and why you have an interest in it to HR@jesus.ox.ac.uk.

Jesus School welcomes and celebrates variety. We attempt in direction of creating an inclusive setting, the place our employees and people related to the School really feel valued and revered. We wish them to thrive, no matter their age, incapacity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, being pregnant and maternity, race, faith or perception, intercourse, and sexual orientation. Our employees are an integral a part of our community, and we cherish equally these qualities that make every of us distinctive, and people who carry us collectively.