Cluster Estates Manager

The Vacancy

We are seeking a Cluster Estates Manager to be responsible for ensuring that all estate-related matters are dealt with in an effective and consistent manner, providing services, advice and guidance regarding policy and industry best practice. Ensuring that the sites are safe and well maintained and therefore creating an environment which supports the raising of educational standards across the schools.

This is a leadership role in which you would report directly to the Executive Business Manager; it is a fantastic opportunity for you to shape and support the successful futures of our four new academies within the Midlands Secondary Cluster: George Eliot Academy, Hartshill Academy, Heath Lane Academy and Nuneaton Academy.

The four schools are coming together to be four academies as part of United Learning at the end of 2023 to form the ‘Midlands Secondary Cluster’. We look to ‘cluster’ academies to share resources and expertise and to give staff local opportunities to develop further. Whilst there is commitment to nurturing the unique ethos of each school, our common mission in bringing out the ‘Best in Everyone’ shines through. We aim to offer more to both colleagues and young people than any single school could offer alone.

Strong relationship building and providing outstanding customer service to all stakeholders will be vital for this role. We require a strong and capable leader and manager equipped to provide the level of support and challenge needed for our schools.

Benefits include: package includes an attractive salary, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and access to exciting employee benefits. We are open to requests for flexible working and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Thursday 30th November   

We encourage informal discussions regarding the role. If you are unsure about the role, have more questions please email Deputy Director of Estates Fay Hayward (fay.hayward@unitedlearning.org.uk) or the HR Business Partner (jo.molyneux@unitedlearning.org.uk). If you would like to visit one of the schools before applying, please contact Business Manager (josh.riley@midlandat.co.uk).       

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.