College Estates and Facilities Manager

Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5HX

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £43,568.00 Annually (Actual) M1

College Estates and Facilities Manager job summary

We are seeking an experienced and proactive College Estates and Facilities Manager to lead the day-to-day management, maintenance, security and presentation of our College estate.

This is a key operational role responsible for ensuring our buildings, boarding facilities, grounds and infrastructure are safe, secure, compliant, well maintained and fit for purpose. You will lead the premises, caretaking and facilities teams, oversee cleaning provision and coordinate contractors and external service providers. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the SLT member responsible for operations on developing the whole College site.

Working closely with the College's senior leadership team, you will oversee planned and reactive maintenance, premises compliance, health and safety arrangements, fire and security systems, grounds and cleaning services. You will also manage minor works and projects, support events and lettings, monitor budgets and ensure value for money from contractors and suppliers.

The successful candidate will have strong estates or facilities management experience, excellent organisational and problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage staff, contractors and competing operational priorities effectively. Experience of working in a school, college or similar complex environment would be advantageous.

You will be committed to maintaining high standards across the College and to creating a safe, welcoming and well-presented environment for our students, staff and visitors. Safeguarding is central to this role, and you will be expected to ensure appropriate checks and procedures are followed by staff, contractors and external providers.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced estates or facilities professional to play a central role in the effective operation and continued development of a busy day and boarding College.

Overnight accommodation may be available, to be discussed at interview.

For further details, please email recruitment@hockerill.com.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All post-holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) including barred list check.

We strive to be an inclusive and diverse workplace representative of our student population. Applications from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates are especially welcome.

We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Hockerill Anglo-European College

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 903 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Hockerill Anglo-European College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hockerill-anglo-european-college-bishop-s-stortford

We passionately believe that every student deserves the opportunity to be the best they can be and that our school gives them that opportunity. We are a state co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 11 to 18 and offer our students a dynamic, vibrant and exciting learning environment where development of the whole student is our priority. The College offers a rigorous and broad curriculum, and is proud to be one of the largest state schools offering the prestigious International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma programmes. With a twin focus on the two specialisms of Languages and Music, Hockerill offers a truly distinct setting for a world-class education. Located in beautiful grounds on the edge of Bishop’s Stortford the school is in close proximity to London and the South East of England and accepts applications for boarding and day places from students with a current UK passport or the right to residency in the UK.

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