Estates Intern

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

Main purpose of job:

Roles and responsibilities:

• Provide general support to the Brazil Network Estates Teams, receiving, auctioning and inspecting customer service tasks related to the Estates.
• Monitor and inspect corrective works closely and effectively with the Network Office Environment Team.
• Support on the planning and auctioning the Preventive Maintenance schedules.
• Support on liaising with internal customers on estates maintenance demands across embassy and official properties.
• Support on liaising with local contractors making sure that work requests and maintenance term contracts are carried out correctly within the deadlines and that all work is done according to British and Brazilian codes of practice. Regularly and effectively liaise closely with all members of the Corporate Services teams, clients & contractors, to make sure that property visits and works are arranged and managed effectively and that all work is inspected.
• Assist the Estates Analyst as and when required.
• Support on other adhoc administrative support as and when required.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

• Be currently enrolled in an undergraduate programme in Business Administration or similar (from 3rd semester onwards).
• Must have written and oral fluency in English and strong communication skills in both Portuguese and English.
• Strong organisation and communication skills with emphasis on being proactive and having customer focus.
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Required behaviours

• Changing and Improving, Delivering at Pace, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together Application deadline Application deadline day Application deadline month Application deadline year
• 11 September 2023

Grade

• Internship

Type of Position

• Part-Time, Intern, Fixed term, with possibility of renewal

Working hours per week

• 30

Region

• Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean

Country/Territory

• Brazil

Location (City)

• Brasilia

Type of Post

• British Embassy

Number of vacancies

• 1

Salary Currency

• BRL

Stipend / Allowance

• R$ 1.867,47

Start Date Start Date - day Start Date - month Start Date - year

• 23 October 2023

End Date End Date - day End Date - month End Date - year

• 23 April 2024

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Learning and development opportunities:

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, e.g.

some non-local national staff and some spouses or partners of UK diplomatic staff, will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.

Additional information

Applications should be completed in English and submitted with a cover letter (max.

1 page) setting out why you want the job and what value you would bring, together with a CV (max.

2 pages) and two references.

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