Unite Foundation
Bristol, Gloucestershire
We're looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join our fantastic Legal team in Bristol. You'll be a critical member of the Legal and Company Secretary team with responsibility for legal, regulatory and contractual matters in our operations business and our nominations portfolio. This means you'll be working close to the heart of our business, focused on the success of: our relationships with Universities our student customers, helping ensure we provide a safe and secure home for the young people who live with us our digital operating platform and operational excellence our operating portfolio of property assets Unite Students is the market leader in PBSA and our business, supported by the legal team, continues to innovate. This role helps us sustain and strengthen this market leading position, guiding the business to stay on point whilst being prepared to challenge the ordinary. What You'll Be Doing Nominations agreements - leading on the drafting and negotiating of nomination agreements with our University partners Customer welfare and student tenant issues - providing legal support to our operational teams across the UK on a wide range of customer welfare and student tenant legal issues Utilisation Projects - supporting teams as we look to deliver more value from our operating assets Real Estate Support - understanding and being able to understand our property ownership structures and support on intragroup arrangements affecting this HMO Licensing - providing support to our local teams on the applicable HMO licensing regimes appropriate for their local council and monitoring incoming schemes Summer business - supporting our shorter stay relationships as some of our properties shift their focus to short term licences in the summer months Data Protection Support - assisting our data protection team with discrete queries to help ensure our continued data protection legislation compliance Legal and regulatory change - monitoring legal and regulatory change affecting our operating business and collaborating with the business to understand the impact of this change and help prepare for and manage this change What We're Looking for in You Real Estate, Commercial and (ideally) licensing experience gained within a leading law firm or in-house legal team (likely 2-4 years PQE). Previous in-house experience is not essential and this role may suit an individual looking to leave private practice for the first time Commercial acumen and someone who relishes working closely with an operating business and front-line teams Enjoys working in a fast paced, dynamic and innovative environment, with the freedom to make decisions and drive change Excellent attention to detail What You'll Get in Return A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you saveA various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more! About Unite Students Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas. Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn t just what we do but who we are. People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive. Room for Everyone We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
We're looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join our fantastic Legal team in Bristol. You'll be a critical member of the Legal and Company Secretary team with responsibility for legal, regulatory and contractual matters in our operations business and our nominations portfolio. This means you'll be working close to the heart of our business, focused on the success of: our relationships with Universities our student customers, helping ensure we provide a safe and secure home for the young people who live with us our digital operating platform and operational excellence our operating portfolio of property assets Unite Students is the market leader in PBSA and our business, supported by the legal team, continues to innovate. This role helps us sustain and strengthen this market leading position, guiding the business to stay on point whilst being prepared to challenge the ordinary. What You'll Be Doing Nominations agreements - leading on the drafting and negotiating of nomination agreements with our University partners Customer welfare and student tenant issues - providing legal support to our operational teams across the UK on a wide range of customer welfare and student tenant legal issues Utilisation Projects - supporting teams as we look to deliver more value from our operating assets Real Estate Support - understanding and being able to understand our property ownership structures and support on intragroup arrangements affecting this HMO Licensing - providing support to our local teams on the applicable HMO licensing regimes appropriate for their local council and monitoring incoming schemes Summer business - supporting our shorter stay relationships as some of our properties shift their focus to short term licences in the summer months Data Protection Support - assisting our data protection team with discrete queries to help ensure our continued data protection legislation compliance Legal and regulatory change - monitoring legal and regulatory change affecting our operating business and collaborating with the business to understand the impact of this change and help prepare for and manage this change What We're Looking for in You Real Estate, Commercial and (ideally) licensing experience gained within a leading law firm or in-house legal team (likely 2-4 years PQE). Previous in-house experience is not essential and this role may suit an individual looking to leave private practice for the first time Commercial acumen and someone who relishes working closely with an operating business and front-line teams Enjoys working in a fast paced, dynamic and innovative environment, with the freedom to make decisions and drive change Excellent attention to detail What You'll Get in Return A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you saveA various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more! About Unite Students Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas. Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn t just what we do but who we are. People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive. Room for Everyone We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
Unite Foundation
Bristol, Gloucestershire
Senior Project Manager - Property Technology This role leads the coordinated delivery of the PSTN switch off programme, Access Control stabilisation, and wider property technology initiatives. It requires strong communication, organisational leadership, and stakeholder alignment across Estates, Digital, Operations and contractors. Unite Students is progressing through the national PSTN switch off programme while also strengthening operational reliability across key property technology systems. As Property Technology Manager, you will oversee the PSTN programme's final phases, ensuring controlled disconnection, continuity, and alignment with lift and fire tenders. Alongside this, you will stabilise our Access Control estate ensuring computers are online, secured, running the correct software versions, communicating with controllers, asset tracked, and proactively monitored with alerting. The role requires clear communication, coordination, decision making and disciplined delivery within a complex, multi programme environment. This role is based in our Bristol office and is a 12 month fixed-term contract. What You'll Be Doing Coordinate the safe, controlled switch off of PSTN lines with clear communication to Estates and Operations. Support and track progress on the Lift Modernisation and Fire Systems tenders that remove PSTN dependencies. Oversee continuity solutions to maintain lift emergency lines and fire autodiallers until permanent replacements are in place. Provide structured reporting, RAID management, decision logging and stakeholder updates across multiple programmes. Drive alignment with Estates, Digital, Procurement, Facilities and contractors to maintain progress and surface risks early. Ensure every building has a compliant computer that is online, accessible, on the correct software version and communicating with controllers. Ensure computers and connected devices are fully asset tracked with clear ownership, location and lifecycle visibility. Deliver monitoring and alerting capability so offline computers and dropped communication controllers are surfaced proactively. Coordinate remediation, commissioning activities, configuration checks and software updates with contractors and internal teams. Strengthen governance around asset registers, software version control, and configuration standards. Support documentation, guidance, training and handover activity for operational teams. Property Technology Delivery Work with Operations, Estates and contractors across a range of property technology systems as required. Apply structured project management practices, ensuring plans, dependencies and communications remain aligned. Provide leadership, problem solving, and proactive risk and issue management. What We're Looking for in You The ability to plan, manage and deliver projects with autonomy and structured governance. Technical understanding across estates technology, installation environments, software behaviour and system dependencies. Outstanding communication and coordination skills in complex environments. Demonstrable experience managing multiple stakeholder technical or estates projects. Ability to manage suppliers and contractors, maintaining delivery oversight. Strong organisational discipline with RAID, timelines, planning and structured reporting. Ability to explain risks, impacts and decisions clearly to non technical colleagues. Experience stabilising or improving an operational technology service is beneficial. Calm, proactive, adaptable mindset with strong problem solving ability. Familiarity with project management methods (PRINCE2, Agile, PMP) is desirable. What You'll Get in Return A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success. 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service. A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save. Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends. Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents. Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more! About Unite Students Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas. Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn't just what we do but who we are. People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive. Room for Everyone We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what's right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
Senior Project Manager - Property Technology This role leads the coordinated delivery of the PSTN switch off programme, Access Control stabilisation, and wider property technology initiatives. It requires strong communication, organisational leadership, and stakeholder alignment across Estates, Digital, Operations and contractors. Unite Students is progressing through the national PSTN switch off programme while also strengthening operational reliability across key property technology systems. As Property Technology Manager, you will oversee the PSTN programme's final phases, ensuring controlled disconnection, continuity, and alignment with lift and fire tenders. Alongside this, you will stabilise our Access Control estate ensuring computers are online, secured, running the correct software versions, communicating with controllers, asset tracked, and proactively monitored with alerting. The role requires clear communication, coordination, decision making and disciplined delivery within a complex, multi programme environment. This role is based in our Bristol office and is a 12 month fixed-term contract. What You'll Be Doing Coordinate the safe, controlled switch off of PSTN lines with clear communication to Estates and Operations. Support and track progress on the Lift Modernisation and Fire Systems tenders that remove PSTN dependencies. Oversee continuity solutions to maintain lift emergency lines and fire autodiallers until permanent replacements are in place. Provide structured reporting, RAID management, decision logging and stakeholder updates across multiple programmes. Drive alignment with Estates, Digital, Procurement, Facilities and contractors to maintain progress and surface risks early. Ensure every building has a compliant computer that is online, accessible, on the correct software version and communicating with controllers. Ensure computers and connected devices are fully asset tracked with clear ownership, location and lifecycle visibility. Deliver monitoring and alerting capability so offline computers and dropped communication controllers are surfaced proactively. Coordinate remediation, commissioning activities, configuration checks and software updates with contractors and internal teams. Strengthen governance around asset registers, software version control, and configuration standards. Support documentation, guidance, training and handover activity for operational teams. Property Technology Delivery Work with Operations, Estates and contractors across a range of property technology systems as required. Apply structured project management practices, ensuring plans, dependencies and communications remain aligned. Provide leadership, problem solving, and proactive risk and issue management. What We're Looking for in You The ability to plan, manage and deliver projects with autonomy and structured governance. Technical understanding across estates technology, installation environments, software behaviour and system dependencies. Outstanding communication and coordination skills in complex environments. Demonstrable experience managing multiple stakeholder technical or estates projects. Ability to manage suppliers and contractors, maintaining delivery oversight. Strong organisational discipline with RAID, timelines, planning and structured reporting. Ability to explain risks, impacts and decisions clearly to non technical colleagues. Experience stabilising or improving an operational technology service is beneficial. Calm, proactive, adaptable mindset with strong problem solving ability. Familiarity with project management methods (PRINCE2, Agile, PMP) is desirable. What You'll Get in Return A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success. 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service. A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save. Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends. Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents. Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more! About Unite Students Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas. Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn't just what we do but who we are. People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive. Room for Everyone We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what's right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.