Director Of Estates

DIRECTOR OF ESTATES

Full-Time, Permanent Contract

St. Michael's House (SMH) is a leading Section 38 organisation in the field of intellectual disability in Ireland and has a turnover of over €133M; a staff complement of over 1,850 employees and delivers services to over 2300 children and adults, their families, and carers in over 200 locations across the greater Dublin area.

St. Michael’s House has a research partnership with UCD and runs QQI accredited programmes of education up to and including Honours Degree Level through its Open Training College.

SMH works with Service Users to understand their needs and wishes and to help them achieve their goals. The organisations vision is a society in which people of every ability can live the life of their choosing. Respect, Kindness, Honesty, Excellence and Creativity represent SMH’s core values.

The Role

The Director of Estates will be responsible for the planning and development associated with the Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) with St. Michael's House AHB, all properties maintenance and transport of St. Michael's House in accordance with all buildings/health and safety regulations to the highest possible standards in the context of the needs of the development service.

Areas of responsibility are:

Housing and premises

1. AHB

2. Maintenance

3. Technical services

4. Fire Safety

5. Energy Performance

6. Transport

Direct reports to Director of Estates:

• Chief Assistant Technical Services Officer
• Head of Technical Services
• Projects Manager
• Fire Officer
• Housing Manager x 2

Overall staff compliment in the Estates Directorate – 53

REQUIREMENTS

Essential Qualifications

• Degree and/or appropriate professional qualifications/membership in relevant property, design, build environment, construction, engineering, surveying or technical discipline or demonstration of relevant experience

Desirable Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in a relevant business discipline

Essential Experience

• Significant experience at a senior level in leading large operational teams and property projects & programmes, including experience of procurement, programme management and budget management of large value schemes to time and cost.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to explain the impact of technical issues on viability
• Detailed understanding of the range of technical issues related to health service, estates and facilities management
• Experience in developing strategies for overcoming issues
• Have a substantial and explicit track record of accomplishment at a Senior Management level for a period not less than three years
• Successful track record of delivering large scale projects
• Excellent in MS packages e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook

Desirable Experience

• Experience in a comparable role within the Health Services setting, or similar setting.

Please check the information booklet attached for more details.

REMUNERATION

HSE Grade General Manager pt.1: €84,898 to pt.7: €105,604

Should you have no prior public sector experience you will be placed on point 1 of the pay-scale above.

HOW TO APPLY

All the below must be received, via Rezoomo only before the application is deemed complete:

• A comprehensive CV, detailing education, skills, career history, experience.
• A detailed cover letter outlining why you wish to be considered for the post and where you believe your skills, experience and values meet the requirements of the position of Director of Finance for St. Michael’s House.

If you have informal enquiries, please contact Liz.Reynolds@smh.ie by email.

Closing Date: 11th August 2025 at 5 pm

Selection Process:

The Selection Process may include:

• Short listing of candidates, based on the information contained in their application and assessment of competencies detailed in respect of the role.
• Competency based interview (face to face interview only).
• A presentation on a related topic may form the basis of a second stage interview process.

Please check the information booklet attached for more details.

Please note that any offer of employment will be made subject to satisfactory reference checks as well as any other background checks or assessments considered appropriate to the process.

Candidates should note that canvassing will disqualify them.

St. Michael’s House is an equal opportunities employer