Role: Property Administrator

Department: Property & Facilities ManagementLocation: Hybrid Working – Home working/local Office/HubSalary:  depending on experienceHours: Full-time, 6 month contractClosing Date: 15th January 2026

Make a Real Difference in a Child's Life

At Barnardo's, we believe in children – no matter who they are or what they've been through. We work to build stronger families, safer childhoods, and positive futures.

As a Property Administrator, you'll play a vital role in providing support to our services and shops in ensuring that any repair issues for their property or any other property related queries are dealt with quickly and efficiently, working collaboratively with building surveyors, asset managers and contractors to allow our Children's Services colleagues to concentrate on  providing care, stability, and advocacy for children and young people who need it most and together with our retail staff are working in buildings which are safe and compliant.

What You'll Be Doing as a Property Administrator

• Working on the Property Helpdesk via our Business Services Hub to manage, triage and respond to all requests for help, work and assistance recognising significant and relative priority of any one issue within the range of work being undertaken
• Purchase order and invoice management from conception and issue, tracking to closure
• Data entry requirements of the Property department across all relevant internal systems
• Signposting requesters to the correct area of responsibility to obtain the help required.
• Liaising with building surveyors, asset managers, landlords, managing agents, contractors, local authorities and government agencies as necessary to provide a customer focused , data led service to all our customers both for Children's Services, Retail or any other parts of the organisation who may require assistance.

What We're Looking For

A Property Administrator who:

• Is keen to work in a large, complex, and geographically spread organisation.
• Is used to working to tight deadlines and delivering a high-quality service.
• Has good numeracy and literacy skills
• Has good data entry and record keeping skills
• Has general understanding of basic property maintenance requirements
• Has a flexible approach to changing demands and a willingness to undertake different tasks

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:22264
• Job Title:Property Administrator
• Location:Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address
• Contract type:Fixed term
• End date:30th July 2026
• Hours:36.25
• Salary:£26,751 - £29,214 plus Office at Home Allowance £312 per annum
• Closing Date:15 January 2026
• Interview Date:TBC