Deputy Director of Estates Management

The Gorse Academies Trust, Leeds, LS27 0LZ

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 April 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 Hours Per Week, All Year Round
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade: Director 40 (SCP 1-5), £54,193 - £59,401

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you ready to play a key leadership role in shaping and maintaining exceptional learning environments across a high-performing multi academy trust? The GORSE Academies Trust is seeking a highly capable and motivated Deputy Director of Estates Management to support the strategic leadership and operational oversight of our estates portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a dynamic central team, ensuring our academies benefit from safe, compliant and high-quality environments that support outstanding education.

Working closely with the Director of Estates Management, the successful candidate will provide professional estates advice across the trust and play a leading role in delivering strategic priorities including asset management, sustainability, compliance, estates contract management and operational estates performance. This is a varied and influential role where strategic thinking and practical problem solving go hand in hand. You will work with principals, academy leaders and estates teams to ensure that our buildings and facilities are maintained to the highest standards and continue to support the needs of pupils, staff and communities.

This role is perfect for someone who:

• Has significant estates or facilities management experience, ideally within a complex or multi-site organisation.
• Demonstrates strong leadership and the ability to influence and support teams across multiple locations.
• Has a strong understanding of compliance, health and safety, and statutory estates responsibilities.
• Is highly organised and able to manage multiple workstreams, projects and priorities.
• Is motivated by the opportunity to make a tangible difference to the environments in which young people learn and thrive.

The successful candidate will support the strategic management of the trust’s estate, ensuring it remains safe, compliant, sustainable and aligned with the trust’s educational objectives. You will provide leadership across a wide range of estates functions including compliance monitoring, asset management, sustainability initiatives and operational estates performance.

You will work closely with academy leaders and site teams to ensure effective estate management across all settings, supporting the delivery of improvement projects and resolving operational challenges. The role will also involve overseeing key estates systems and processes, ensuring accurate record keeping, effective estates contract oversight and proactive planning for maintenance and renewal.

The Deputy Director will deputise for the Director of Estates Management where required and contribute to the strategic development of the trust’s estates function as part of the wider central team.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking an individual who can demonstrate:

• Significant experience in estates, facilities or asset management.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent knowledge of health and safety and statutory compliance requirements.
• Experience managing projects, contractors and operational estates services.
• Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to work strategically while maintaining a strong operational focus.
• A willingness to travel across multiple sites.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

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.

About us:

Led by Sir John Townsley, the nationally renowned GORSE Academies Trust has a central mission; to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. We achieve this through providing all students, but particularly those who have the most challenging and complex backgrounds, with a rigorous and academic education which challenges and develops them, not only academically, but also socially. We believe that this will prepare them for life not only in Britain, but across the world.

We aspire for our young people to acquire the Gift of Choice, that is the ability for them to be able to actively choose their next steps, at whatever age, as opposed to having avenues closed off to them as a consequence of a poor skillset or qualifications base. The impact of the work of by professionals can be acutely seen in the trust’s performance, for example, in 2022-23 GORSE was the highest performing trust in the country (for trusts with 5 or more schools in them) for whole cohort Progress 8 and for disadvantaged Progress 8. Furthermore, the trust is proud that all of its establishments (with the exception of those that are currently ungraded) are Ofsted Good or Outstanding. This is only possible because of the exceptional members of staff and the tremendous support offered within the trust.

If you would like to know more about our Trust, please visit our website at www.tgat.org.uk.

How to Apply:

If you areas excited about this role as we are, you can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and Application Form from the trust website at www.tgat.org.uk/jobs, request them by email at recruitment@tgat.org.uk or call us on 0113 487 8888.

Should you wish to have an informal discussion about this role or to arrange to visit our trust then please do so through contacting Tina Dunderdale, Director of Estates Management (tina.dunderdale@tgat.org.uk).

Please note electronic applications should be submitted where possible. CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 7 April 2026 at 9am

Interviews will take place: Thursday 24 April 2026

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

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Additional documents

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About The Gorse Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Gorse Academies Trust website
• Email address: recruitment@tgat.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-gorse-academies-trust

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