Job Introduction
Role: Repairs and Compliance Manager
Location: Hybrid working with a minimum 2 days per week in Thame (Oxfordshire) or Leicester (Leicestershire)
Salary: £45,000.00 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Contract: Permanent
Reports to: Head of Housing and Property
Delivering safe, compliant properties
As Repairs and Compliance Manager, you will help keep our homes, offices, and supported living environments safe, well maintained, and fully compliant. You will oversee responsive repairs, void works, planned maintenance, and landlord compliance across Affinity Trust’s property portfolio.
You will work with contractors, operational teams, landlords, and stakeholders to ensure repairs are completed efficiently, compliance standards are met, and services keep improving. This is a varied role where you can make a real impact.
What you will do
- Oversee repairs, voids, and planned maintenance across the property portfolio.
- Ensure landlord compliance and health and safety requirements are met and accurately recorded.
- Carry out site inspections and monitor contractor performance and quality.
- Manage contractor relationships and drive service improvements.
- Support the maintenance and management of Affinity Trust offices.
- Improve systems and processes to deliver efficient, value-for-money services.
- Provide property and compliance support to operational teams and third-party landlord arrangements.
- Support planned maintenance programmes and respond to tenant feedback in line with our values.
What we are looking for
- Experience in repairs, maintenance, or compliance services.
- Knowledge of landlord compliance and property health and safety requirements.
- Strong contractor and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent organisation and problem-solving skills.
- Confidence managing competing priorities and working across teams.
- Strong IT skills and experience using property or compliance systems.
How You’ll Make an Impact
In this role, you’ll make a real impact by ensuring the people we support live in safe, compliant, and well-maintained environments that enable them to thrive.
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What will we do?
- We offer hybrid working (min. 2 days/week office based)
- 31 days’ annual leave (inc. bank holidays), rising with service
- Health cash plan, Pension, Life assurance, Employee Assistance Programme
- Blue Light Card, option to buy extra annual leave
Inclusion, accessibility and our commitment to diversity
Diversity is key to what we do. Life would be dull, and change slow, if we all thought the same way. We want colleagues who bring different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences, and we know this makes us stronger and better for the people we support.
We are committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
We’re also committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage, for example, accessible formats, support with the application form or adjustments for interview, you can tell us in your application or contact our recruitment team to discuss what you need.
Ready to join us?
If you’re ready to drive new commercial opportunities that make a real impact, connecting with colleagues to build strong relationships, making a real difference in a values-led charity, this could be your next role.
If you are offered the role, you will be required to have a DBS check at the relevant level, which we’ll cover the cost for.
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