
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Estates
Main purpose of job:
Ensuring office and staff accommodation is fully furnished, estates inventory maintained and compliant with One HMG accommodation standards and health and safety policies.
Roles and responsibilities :
Warehousing, utilities and information management
- Day to day maintenance of warehouse and float stores, keeping accurate inventory list of all estate assets – furniture, float and fittings.
- Ensure adequate inventory cover for all estate accommodation and office needs. Advise Estate Manager on future needs and purchasing requirements.
- Maintain correct information on Pyramid for the whole of estate and housing stock.
- Handle requisition and receiving of hotel invoices in Prism.
- PO housekeeping (maintaining minimum agreed post FPCI score).
- Settlement of utility bills (in the absence of accounts office support) and managing accurate utility imprest account.
- Completing disposal of goods in line with Post’s Disposal of Assets policy.
- Maintain up to date electronic and hard copy filing systems.
Housing stock/Estate furnishing and maintenance
- Furnish all the properties in accordance with OneHMG accommodation policy and to required standard.
- Manage individual property inventory lists, including float, furniture and fittings.
- Ensure furnishings and float items requested by officer are in place on arrival.
- Ensure the officer signs and returns float list to accommodation section within three days of arrival.
- Property checks on arrival and departure – ensuring inventory is correct and accounted for, notifying Estate Manager of damaged and missing items and ensuring the relevant officer is charged as appropriate.
- Ensure all property is maintained to required standard and manage work request with TWG as required and ensure timely completion.
Resources managed:
- Warehouse – Float and Furnishings Inventory, Imprest account – Utilities
- Customer Service Background in property or logistics
- Valid Driving license
- Fluent in English
- Basic excel and computer skills
- Previous exposure to billing and utilities account management
Changing and Improving, Achieving Commercial Outcomes, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace
22 December 2017
A2 (L)
Permanent
Africa
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
British Embassy
ETB 15 202 gross
1 January 2018
Learning and development opportunities :
Internal system courses and training:
– Prism
– Pyramid
– H&S Champions
- Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
- Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
- The British Embassy will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
- Employees recruited locally by the British Embassy in Addis are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in Ethiopia.
- All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in Ethiopia with the correct visa/work permit status.
- Employees who are not eligible to pay local income tax: e.g. certain third-country nationals and spouses/partners of UK diplomats will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.
- Information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Competency Framework can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-competency-framework Please note: Job grade AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
- Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
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