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 Faculty as we proceed our journey into an thrilling new chapter in our historical past.

Jesus Faculty presents a really particular mixture of options. We’re dedicated to the very 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} various community is a stronger community, and our Faculty members come from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities.

It is a vital second within the Faculty’s historical past. Having celebrated our 450th anniversary in 2021, reflecting on the historic milestones which have created the Faculty we’re as we speak, we proceed to look to the longer term: a way forward for modern studying and research within the digital age; a way forward for elevated inclusivity, range 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 information 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 rising 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 / generally known as the Home Bursar elsewhere) is to direct the availability of cost-effective providers for our world-class college students, employees, and Fellows, in addition to convention company and different business clients.  A specific focus shall be on leveraging our newly-built, state-of-the-art, Central Oxford occasion house – the Cheng Constructing.

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

In addition to delivering a service for members of the Faculty, Fellowship and alumni community, the division additionally has a business goal to generate earnings for the Faculty from conferences and different exterior events. The DACC should preserve each inner and exterior stakeholders in thoughts when creating plans and operating providers. The Faculty hosts on common 250 inner occasions per 12 months for Faculty members and alumni throughout time period, and round 200 occasions outdoors of time period for exterior stakeholders – together with a lot of giant residential summer season colleges.

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

The position is right for an formidable particular person, with the very best integrity and regard for excellence in hospitality. A key management position throughout the Jesus Faculty community, confirmed expertise of main a number of departments and groups is crucial for this position, in addition to vital management expertise at a strategic and operational degree – ideally throughout the hospitality trade or related equal. Industrial acumen in addition to robust individuals expertise shall be required to steer the staff to success. A demonstrable collaborative strategy and an understanding of the collegiate community dynamics would even be advantageous.

Important expertise 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 throughout the hospitality trade or related equal.
• Commercially adept, with enterprise acumen.
• Expertise in strategic planning and budget management.
• Wonderful interpersonal and communication skills.
• Potential to construct and preserve constructive cross-functional relationships to realize widespread targets.
• Pushed to fulfill and ship persistently excessive requirements in all areas of labor.
• Capability for managing a number of priorities and deadlines, in addition to take care of rapid operational wants.
• Robust written communication skills, and the flexibility to develop and current compelling enterprise instances to committees and the Governing Physique.
• Excessive proficiency in IT.
• Dedication to the goals and ethos of upper education.

Fascinating expertise 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.
• Data of GDPR/Information Safety.

Extra info

This position is full-time (35 hours per week) with flexibility required to fulfill enterprise wants and oversee occasions. As a result of operational nature of the position, the postholder must be each visible and accessible, and shall 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 shall be supplied relying on the talents and expertise of the appropriate candidate.

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

As well as, Fellows of the Faculty 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 Faculty feasts.

For full particulars of the position, go to our web site: www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/vacancies. In case you have any questions in regards to the position, or require additional info, please contact HR@jesus.ox.ac.uk.

Cut-off date: Midday on Friday twenty first June.

Interviews: First stage interviews shall be held through Groups on ninth July and final-stage interviews shall be held in-person at Jesus Faculty on sixteenth July.

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

Jesus Faculty welcomes and celebrates range. We try in the direction of creating an inclusive surroundings, the place our employees and people related to the Faculty really feel valued and revered. We would like 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 those who convey us collectively.