Cleaning Supervisor

Who are we?

We are Manchester Students’ Union, the biggest SU in the country, supporting over 40,000 students throughout their time at university. We help to make student life the best it can be by supporting students to campaign for change, creating opportunities to meet new people, providing employment opportunities, providing advice and support and being a safe place on campus.

We are a values-centred organisation that employs around 90 permanent, full-time members of staff. We recruit a wide range of roles throughout the year within all our departments from our Commercial team operating Manchester Academy Venues, 13 Media, Bar 532 & Kitchen and Corridor Coffee to our Student Activities, Student Engagement, Marketing and Communications, Finance, HR and Facilities teams. Our team of around 400 part-time, studying staff are instrumental in providing to support to all departments as well as leading major projects like Student Angels. When you join UMSU, you’ll be immersed in an environment that empowers staff to make great things happen and we're always on the lookout for innovative, passionate, and proactive people to join us.

Our values are really important to us and shape the work that we do every day. As part of our recruitment process, we want you to demonstrate how your experiences, behaviours and skills align with our values. You can find more detailed explanations of our values on our website.

About the role

The University of Manchester Students’ Union & Manchester Academy Venues are recruiting for a cleaning supervisor role. The cleaning supervisor is a newly created role following the Union bringing their cleaning service in house. The role is responsible for ensuring excellent cleaning standards are maintained across the building and our four live music venues and helping to create great visitor experiences. The cleaning supervisor is supported by and will manage the team of cleaning staff.

The salary band for this role starts at £26,640. We offer an excellent package of benefits including 30 days of annual leave plus Christmas close days (or equivalent) and bank holidays. The contracts hours are annualised meaning that an average of 35 hours per week are worked across the year.

Please read the full role profile before applying, as well as our guide to recruitment.

Details

Salary: £26,640 – £29,820 (this is a salaried role paid monthly, the hourly equivalent is £14.64 to £16.38)

Contract: Permanent Full Time Role

Hours: 35 hours per week

Our Reward Package

You'll get access to our reward package which you can see here.

Recruitment Guide

We have a guide that explains our full recruitment process. We recommend reading through this before beginning an application.

If you are invited to interview with us, we will share our interview questions in advance so you can prepare your responses. We’re more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as prepared as possible.

Inclusivity and Accessibility

We are committed to equality of opportunity, and we work hard to ensure we appoint based on skill and values.

We particularly encourage applications from Disabled or Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African candidates as these groups are currently underrepresented in our staff team.

If you have any accessibility requirements or require adjustments to support you to apply to work with us, please get in touch. We can offer reasonable adjustments at all stages of our recruitment process.

Recruitment Timeline

Applications opened: 28th October 9am

Applications close: 11th November 23:59

Interviews: 28th November

Role Commencing: December 

We may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. In this case, all applicants who have started an application will be contacted 2 hours before we close the role.

Contact

People Team:

You can contact the People Team with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.

Email: jobs.su@manchester.ac.uk

Phone: 0161 306 3279

Hiring Manager:

You can contact the hiring manager with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.

Email: rebecca.eley@manchester.ac.uk