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For over 90 years we have shaped brighter futures through education, arts, culture, language, and creativity.\nWe work with people in over 150 countries and reach over 700 million people.\nWe connect. We inspire.\nFacilities Programme Manager\nLocation: Poland, India, Serbia, UK\nContract Type: Indefinite Contract\nPay Grade: 7\nClosing date:Monday 26th October 2026 at 23:55\nRequirements: You must have the legal right to work in the country where the role is based at the time of application. We are unable to support with visa sponsorship and relocation.\nRole Purpose:\nWe are seeking an organised and detail-oriented Facilities Programme Manager to support the effective management and reporting of our global property portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, driving process improvement, and contributing to the delivery of estate and facilities management programmes on an international scale.\nIn this role, you will coordinate the annual global estates data collection process across all properties, ensuring that standardised facilities management tools and methodologies are implemented consistently. You will provide training and guidance to local teams, work closely with regional facilities management mentors, and monitor completion to ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality data submissions.\nYou will be responsible for validating, consolidating, and analysing estates data, collaborating with specialist teams to develop reporting solutions and Power BI dashboards that provide meaningful insights into asset condition, compliance risks, and operational performance across the portfolio.\nA key aspect of the role will involve translating data-driven insights into actionable programmes, particularly supporting the development and delivery of the Minor Capital Investment Fund (Minor Works). You will help identify and prioritise low-complexity projects based on asset condition and compliance requirements, while maintaining oversight of programme progress, financial performance, and reporting.\nWorking closely with finance and programme stakeholders, you will support robust financial governance processes, ensuring alignment between SAP actuals, commitments, and programme tracking tools. You will coordinate portfolio-level reporting and produce regular performance updates, providing clear visibility of programme costs, risks, and delivery status.\nThe successful candidate will also coordinate enhanced compliance assessment programmes across targeted locations, liaising with specialist third-party providers and internal stakeholders to ensure effective planning, delivery, and future capital investment forecasting.\nThe ideal candidate will have experience in programme or project coordination, estates, facilities management, asset management, or a related environment. You will possess strong analytical and data management skills, be comfortable working with reporting tools such as Power BI and financial systems such as SAP, and have the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders across a global organisation. Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills are essential, along with a proactive approach to managing information and driving continuous improvement.\nThis role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the management and development of a global estate portfolio, helping to ensure that investment decisions are informed, priorities are clearly understood, and programmes are delivered effectively.\nRole Context - About the Team:\nThe role sits within Global Estates Department as a central coordination and delivery position, responsible for supporting the consistent execution, governance, and reporting of a portfolio of multi-region programmes. It acts as a key link between local, regional FM teams, central functions, and specialised partners, ensuring alignment of delivery practices, financial governance, and reporting standards across the global estate.\nThe role reports to the Global Facilities Manager role and has no direct reports\nMain Accountabilities:\nProgramme/Service delivery\nSupervises and controls team activities to meet (daily/weekly/monthly) agreed service/programme/product delivery performance targets, schedules and deadlines\nPrioritises work and resolves day-to-day operating resource issues for a nominated team, to ensure high quality, consistent and efficient services are delivered\nMakes recommendations to senior managers on procedural improvements, resource requirements and other operational initiatives to drive enhance team performance, cost effectiveness, service quality and efficiency\nUndertakes regular quality checks and reviews, following agreed corporate or relevant external protocols, to monitor the quality, consistency and effectiveness of service/product/programme delivery. Reports on findings and recommends appropriate remedial actions as required.\nIdentifies and shares examples of process/procedural best practice with appropriate colleagues in the country/region/SBU to drive continuous improvement in the BC’s operational capability, efficiency and cost effectiveness.\nCustomers & stakeholders\nTranslates agreed corporate/regional customer service and client management strategies into appropriate local operational policies and procedures. \nMonitors and reports on the team/unit’s achievement of agreed customer satisfaction performance targets.\nEnsures that customer/partner feedback is regularly gathered, analysed and acted upon to drive continuous improvements in customer experience.\nReports on potential business development or extension opportunities to regional and SBU colleagues to enable ongoing commercial success for the BC\nAnalysis & reporting\nConducts analysis using a range of standard methodologies and across multiple data-sets to provide high quality and evidence-based recommendations on procedural improvements and/or highlight resource requirements needed to enhance operational performance\nPresents complex information clearly, using an appropriate combination of written, graphical and financial data/analysis, to enable evidence-based operational decision-making and planning.\nCommercial & resource management\nDirectly plans and controls specific cost variables (rather than the total budget) to meet established targets, ensuring compliance with all relevant corporate financial systems and processes\nUsing agreed financial procedures/templates, conducts monthly and year-end analysis and reporting on income and expenditure/profitability and risk/pipeline/actual performance versus plan targets.\nRequirements Of The Role:\nSelf-motivation and independent thinking, with flexibility to adapt the approach, remaining open to different perspectives, embrace cultural diversity, and continuously drive improvement.\nData analysis and reporting, including Power BI, Excel, power point.\nStakeholder management and effective communication.\nHigh attention to detail and accuracy in data handling, reporting, and financial tracking\nMinimum/essential\nExperience in coordinating programmes within Facilities Management, Real Estate, or similar operational environments.\nStrong knowledge of financial governance and tracking (e.g. SAP, WBS, PO management, budget vs actuals alignment).\nExperience in data collection, validation, and reporting processes across large, distributed teams.\nAbility to deliver structured reporting and dashboards (e.g. Power BI, Excel-based reporting, power point) to support decision-making.\nExperience in stakeholder coordination across multiple functions (FM teams, Finance, suppliers), ensuring alignment and timely delivery.\nUnderstanding of programme governance frameworks and ability to monitor compliance with reporting standards and timelines\nUnderstanding of facilities management operations\nDesirable:\nExperience working with third-party providers and consultants in facilities, compliance, or technical assessment environments.\nA connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.\nEquality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement\nWe are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability, and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent and we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.\nSafeguarding Statement\nThe British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. 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