Compliance Manager - Property Services

What will you be doing?

You will be:

• Leading and managing statutory property compliance across the Council’s estate, ensuring all buildings meet legal, regulatory and safety requirements.
• Developing and delivering the corporate property compliance strategy and assurance framework, aligned to the wider Land and Property Strategy.
• Managing a team of compliance specialists, providing direction, support and professional leadership to ensure a high‑performing and capable service.
• Overseeing key compliance areas including asbestos, water hygiene (Legionella), fire safety, security, accessibility and contractor control.
• Managing specialist compliance contracts, including procurement, performance monitoring, and budget oversight to ensure value for money and effective delivery.
• Ensuring all statutory inspections, risk assessments, surveys and remedial actions are completed, recorded and auditable across the portfolio.
• Monitoring compliance performance through data and reporting systems, using insights to drive continuous improvement and inform decision‑making.
• Providing expert technical advice, guidance and training to internal teams, schools and service managers to support them in meeting their compliance responsibilities.
• Leading on audits, inspections, incident response and investigations, including engagement with regulators such as the HSE and Fire & Rescue where required.
• Building strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners and contractors to support effective service delivery and a positive compliance culture.
• Contributing to governance and reporting arrangements, preparing and presenting updates to senior leadership teams, boards and committees.

About you

You will be an experienced compliance or health and safety professional with strong knowledge of property‑related statutory compliance, ideally gained within a complex, multi‑site environment such as the public sector.

You will bring:

• In‑depth knowledge of key compliance areas including asbestos, water hygiene (Legionella), fire safety and wider property health and safety legislation.
• Proven experience of managing statutory compliance across a diverse property portfolio, ensuring legal requirements are met and risks are effectively controlled.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience of managing and developing teams to deliver high‑quality, customer‑focused services.
• Experience of managing contractors and service providers, including procurement, performance management and budget oversight.
• The ability to interpret, analyse and use compliance data to monitor performance, identify risks and drive continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to provide clear, pragmatic advice to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, operational managers and external partners.
• Experience of working with regulators and managing audits, inspections and incident investigations.
• A proactive and solutions‑focused approach, with the ability to balance compliance requirements with operational needs.

You will also be comfortable working both strategically and operationally, able to lead on corporate initiatives while ensuring day‑to‑day compliance activity is delivered effectively. A strong commitment to collaboration, customer focus and continuous improvement will be key to success in this role.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers