Capital Project Manager
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DAThis job expired on 5 May 2026 – see similar jobs
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
5 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours per week; 8.45 am 4.30pm Monday Thursday, and 8.45 am 4.15 pm on Friday, with a 30mins lunchbreak each day (unpaid).
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade PO4, £49,050 - £52,187 inclusive of Outer London Weighting
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Capital Project Manager to work as part of our Capital Projects Team. The team is part of the central business support team, based in Sutton, that delivers services to our schools and college as part of a multi-functional team including finance, human resources, procurement, marketing, and IT.
Key Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate a proven track record of delivering complex estates capital projects on time and within budget, operating within tight school and college holiday delivery windows.
- Lead end-to-end project management in education environments, ensuring specifications are effectively scoped with building surveyors, commissioning partners, and school/college leadership teams.
- Manage capital and revenue budgets in partnership with Finance, including expenditure tracking, forecasting, and detailed financial reporting.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver projects that enhance curriculum and non-curriculum learning environments.
- Apply strong programme management expertise while building and maintaining effective relationships with professional partners and stakeholders.
Key Requirements:
- Recognised training/qualification in built asset project management (e.g. PRINCE2 or equivalent) A relevant technical qualification or extensive equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrable successful experience in project management
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team Full UK driving licence
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme, Employee Car Lease Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more) Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- MollyKing@orchardhill.ac.uk
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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