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JOB DESCRIPTION About the Role We have an opportunity for an Estate Assistant to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis covering our sites in Brixton and the surrounding area. You will be responsible for providing a high-quality grounds maintenance, gardening and cleaning service, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, specifications, and timescales. This will include cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external spaces well maintained. You will be expected to represent Guinness on site, building positive relationships with customers, contractors, and colleagues to provide access, report any responsive repairs, fly tipping, graffiti, and safeguarding alerts. What we are looking for We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Estate Assistant with a background in cleaning and grounds maintenance, but you will also bring confident customer service skills with a positive and helpful approach to supporting residents and the wider Guinness team. You will be able to demonstrate these essential skills: Proven professional experience of delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites and garden types. Experience and knowledge of lawn, shrub, and plant care. Proven experience of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction. Ability to carry out physical tasks within Health & Safety guidelines. Ability to work effectively within a team and without high levels of supervision. Able to demonstrate Guinness Behaviours. Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, including COSHH and PPE. Full manual UK driving license. If you are interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile. TGPCVL

Talent Operations Associate (Contract-to-Hire, Remote) Parkside /Antal are working with a start up tech company who builds high-quality finance and modelling workflows that depend on excellent expert talent. Their bar is not generic output or polished templates; they care about real, company-specific, substantively useful work. Because their standards are exceptionally high, recruiting, evaluating, and managing strong experts is core to how they operate. The Opportunity This is an operations-heavy recruiting role for someone who can move quickly, stay organized, communicate clearly, and improve a process while running it. You will help the company source and evaluate expert talent, manage relationships with recruiting partners, coordinate candidate flow, and keep the team aligned on funnel performance. Location: 100% Remote Time Commitment: 20-40 hours per week Type: Contract-to-hire (Initial contract for the first 2 months, with the explicit goal of converting to a full-time role upon successful completion). Who You Are We are open to a range of non-traditional backgrounds. You might come from recruiting, talent operations, consulting, finance operations, back-office at a finance firm, executive search support, or agency recruiting. You do not need a traditional recruiting background if you are sharp, organised, highly communicative, and able to take radical ownership. What You'll Do Candidate Evaluation: Conduct intro, qualification, and follow-up calls with experts; evaluate communication quality, availability, and alignment with the company's high standards. Partner Management: Serve as the main point of contact for external recruiting agencies and head-hunters; keep them calibrated with fast, specific candidate feedback. Pipeline Ownership: Maintain candidate trackers, monitor funnel stages (from submission to offer/rejection), and aggressively eliminate bottlenecks in scheduling. Process Optimization: Help implement project management systems to make recruiting faster, cleaner, and easier to scale. Reporting: Prepare weekly summaries covering pipeline health, partner performance, conversion rates, and action items. What We're Looking For Experience: 1-4+ years in talent operations, agency/corporate recruiting, business operations, consulting, finance back-office, or another high-signal role. Execution Mindset: Low-ego, practical, and execution-oriented with strong follow-up discipline nothing falls through the cracks on your watch. Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable hosting calls with high-profile experts and external partners. Tech Savvy: Highly comfortable working in spreadsheets, trackers, and modern project management tools. Nice-to-Haves Experience recruiting high-calibre finance profiles (Investment Banking, PE, FP&A, Consulting). Familiarity with financial modelling, Excel-heavy roles, or expert networks. Experience building recruiting dashboards or structured hiring processes from scratch. What Success Looks Like Within your first two months, you will have taken full ownership of candidate flow, built clean visibility into our funnel, improved our scheduling speed, and helped us identify our highest-performing recruiting partners. Your successful execution during this window will unlock your transition into a full-time role.

1. Ensuring all school buildings and grounds are cleaned to agreed standards and specifications, including: Supervision of the school cleaning staff, establishing cleaning schedules, instructing and monitoring in appropriate cleaning methods including safe use of equipment/ machinery/cleaning agents whilst ensuring cleaners are aware of and comply with associated health and safety requirements. Personally undertaking agreed cleaning tasks not included in the school's cleaning specification Assisting in the maintenance of a litter free environment in accordance with the Code of Practice Arranging for emergency cleaning and removal of graffiti Arranging the cleaning of laundry items. 2. Ensuring the maintenance of all school buildings, grounds and utilities and ensuring that any repairs are properly and promptly carried out, including : Operating an agreed programme of planned preventative maintenance Personally undertaking minor repairs and maintenance tasks which are within the postholder's competence and identified as such within the maintenance specification, arranging for other repairs to be carried out under the building maintenance contract, organising emergency response to vandalism damage In liaison with the Line Manager or designated deputy, reporting on, arranging an overseeing any alterations, redecoration, building and maintenance works and specialised repair work Ensuring maintenance of the heating systems, ensuring adequate fuel levels are maintained and that frost protection system is operating as required for efficient maintenance of adequate heating and hot water provision Checking that the premises are at the correct temperature at designated times and that adequate hot water is available, monitoring and taking appropriate action where necessary Replacing fluorescent tubes, starters, diffusers, lightbulbs and shades Maintaining a location plan of all turn valves or switches for utilities, ensuring clear access and good working order Ensuring drains and gullies are free flowing and clean Removing snow and other obstructions from main entrances, steps, paths etc maintaining adequate stocks of salt and sand Preventing unauthorised/unsafe parking on the school site Where school is equipped with a swimming pool, ensuring this is maintained in good order and kept clean and safe. JD and PS Template - October 2015 Page 2 of 5 3. Keeping all grounds and buildings secure, including: Acting as a key-holder and controlling site keys, routine and non-routine opening Liaising with security officers Reporting as appropriate any breaches of security and ensuring that any resultant damage is remedied properly and promptly Locking and unlocking internal and external doors as required, activating, de-activating and testing automated alarm and bell systems. 4. Undertaking various porterage, administrative and letting duties, including: Undertaking/arranging for the safe storing and moving of items of furniture, equipment and provisions as required. May be required to transport dinner money float Receiving and directing as appropriate all deliveries for the school, assisting in the reception and vetting of visitors, dealing with or referring enquiries as appropriate Maintaining stocks of materials, protective clothing and equipment as required Keeping up-to-date records, inventories and forms as required Assisting in the agreed procedures relating to lettings/functions on school premises, and for their use as polling stations if applicable Being a member of the Premises Committee of the Governing Body if required to do so, attending meetings as necessary May have line manager responsibilities for small team of premises staff, formulating and operating rotas to ensure that premises staff are available at all times whilst minimising premium rate payments May be required to control, manage and operate school minibus May be required to transport monies to and from the bank, and deliver and collect small items in the locality of the school 5. Ensuring compliance with all health and safety regulations in respect of matters affecting cleanliness, security and maintenance of all school buildings and grounds, including: Ensuring compliance by periodic inspection of all areas Ensuring that appropriate signs and notices have been displayed Ensuring that hazards are removed Ensuring that fire exits are accessible and that fire fighting equipment is correctly Positioned and serviced Ensuring that first aid equipment and supplies are correctly maintained and readily available. Ensuring that other staff at the school are aware of their responsibilities as appropriate Notifying appropriate agencies via the line manager where there is a pest or vermin problem and dealing with the problem as directed May undertake the annual testing of electrical equipment in the school after appropriate training.