Estates Office Manager
Ipswich School
Suffolk
- £31,400 - £33,400 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- + benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- November 2023
- Apply by:
- 11 October 2023
Job overview
Full-time, throughout the year, permanent (37.5 hours per week Mondays – Fridays)
Benefits include:
- Attractive starting salary, between £31,400 – £33,400 per annum
- 25 days’ paid holiday, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service
- Free lunch during term time
- Free (limited) parking on site
- Free use of the School’s fitness suite and swimming pool
- Membership of a defined contribution pension scheme with 10% employer contributions and 3x life cover
- Generous staff fee remission (after 3 years’ service)
- A friendly, welcoming working environment
Founded during the fourteenth century, Ipswich School is one of the foremost independent schools in East Anglia. We have over 1,100 pupils aged between 3 months and 19 years and are co-educational throughout.
The School moved to its present site overlooking Christchurch Park in 1852. The original buildings stand in front of fine modern classrooms, science laboratories and an award-winning sports centre. These, together with the School Library and performing arts centre, face School Field and there are further extensive playing fields within easy walking distance, together with Boarding Houses just five minutes’ walk away in Constitution Hill and at Anglesea Heights.
You will join our Estates team and will have an important role to play providing the full range of administrative, organisational and management support to the Director of Estates, and the wider Estates team. This will include overseeing servicing and repairs, finance, projects, lettings, and office management.
You should be a highly competent administrator, ideally with experience in co-ordinating school estates management, or property management. You should be a great all-round communicator, with excellent ICT skills and a very good working knowledge of Excel and/or Google Sheets. Excellent literacy and numeracy skills will also be essential in this role.
For a full job description and to find out more about the role, please visit our website: www.ipswich.school/vacancies. To apply, please complete the application form and return it to: Alison Knights, Director of HR, Ipswich School, 25 Henley Road, Ipswich IP1 3SG or email hr@ipswich.school by no later than noon on 11 October 2023. We hope to schedule interviews for this post in the week beginning 16 October 2023.
Ipswich School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the job, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Ipswich School
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Ipswich School is one of the leading independent schools in the area. It has a long history dating back to at least 1399 and is known for its academic success, without being an educational ‘hot house’, its extensive sport, drama and music activities and its commitment to the local community.
Pupils at the school come from a really broad range of backgrounds, and this makes the school different to many others in the independent sector. The atmosphere is very positive and pupils really do get on well with each other and with teachers. Behaviour in lessons is first class and teachers are able to focus fully on their teaching and pupils’ learning without having to spend time and effort keeping everyone in order.
Those applying for teaching posts in the Senior School will find that class sizes are generally smaller than in the maintained sector, with Lower School classes typically being around 20, Middle School can be a little larger or smaller depending on subjects – but are never larger than 24. A Level classes in the Sixth Form are typically have around 10 – 12 students, with 15 students being the upper limit.
Teachers are well supported by Heads of Department and there is a first-class CPD programme in place which not only provides the latest on class room practice, but also involves a range of optional social events. Additional training is also available for all teachers.
For those looking at Prep School posts they will find wonderful purpose-built classrooms in a state-of-the-art Prep School building, small class sizes – typically around 15 in the Lower Prep and between 18 and 25 in the Upper Prep. They will also find parents are very supportive and keen to develop the potential in their children.
Those applying for support staff posts will feel themselves very much part of a community alongside teaching staff. There is a well-refined CPD programme for, great opportunities for development and a fantastic range of benefits.
There are regular opportunities for all staff to get together socially. Recently staff events include drawing sessions, gin and wine tasting, wreath making at Christmas and a summer BBQ.
Facilities throughout the school are excellent with a brand new Music School, the extensive Ipswich School Sports Centre at nearby Rushmere, a specially-built Prep School and a day nursery – The Lodge.
There is free car parking on site for teachers and support staff (though this can be a little tight at times in the Senior School) and a range of other benefits.
Supporting the community is one of the school’s core values. The school has a significant community programme with pupils visiting local care homes giving music and drama performances, pupils growing vegetables and giving them to a local charity, local primary schools taking part in our annual Festival of Music and a large pupil-led termly fundraising programme.
Please have a look at our current vacancies listed here.
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