Suara Oladejo Enterprises is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Estate Manager

Location: Ikeja, Lagos,
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
As an estates manager, you’ll need to:

• Manage an estate – which may include a mixture of farm or rural land, commercial or residential buildings, care or hospital settings
• Manage staff and any volunteers
• Foster a collaborative working approach, with internal or external staff
• Manage contractors employed for a specific purpose, such as tree surgeons or building services engineers
• Organise repairs and maintenance
• Project-manage buildings and renovations
• Plan, commission and manage the work of contractors
• Carry out financial planning for a project and control the budget
• Redevelop a site, possibly for preparation for a different use
• Deal with contracts for various aspects of the estate
• Oversee the development of the estate, to make sure it’s being effectively run to meet the estate’s objectives
• Carry out community engagement work – inform and engage the local community to ensure positive visitor numbers and that facilities are as well utilised as possible
• Work with the landowners/senior leadership of the business to keep them up to date on developments or potential issues
• Keep up to date with legislation and regulations that affect the estate
• Carry out marketing activities – this will often include social media communication aimed at building a positive image, improving public perception and encouraging community engagement.

What to Expect:

• You’ll work both in an office and out on the estate.
• You’ll need to balance numerous, and sometimes contradictory issues, such as increasing the profitability of an estate without spending any money.
• The work involves planning to meet both short term and longer-term needs.
• You’ll need to be both practically-minded way and strategic in seeing the overall picture of a project.
• Estates management roles are available all over the country and overseas. The type of estate will influence the location of a rural or built-up environment.

Qualifications
There are no set requirements to get into this work. Although you can get into estates management without a degree, estate managers will often have a relevant degree, HND or foundation degree or considerable experience built up as a technician before moving into this role.

Because of the variety of the role, any of the following degree subjects can lead into different estates manager roles:

• Agriculture
• Horticulture
• Estate or land management
• Surveying
• Property or facilities management
• Construction management.

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2020.