Director of Estates

Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust, Doncaster, DN3 2JY

25 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2027

• Closing date

  9 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 October 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: £58,992.00 - £63,875.00 Annually (Actual)

Director of Estates job summary

A warm welcome

Thank you for your interest in joining Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust as our first Director of Estates. This is a genuinely exciting time to join us.

We currently serve seven schools across Doncaster: two secondaries and five primaries. Over the next three years we are growing, with schools joining us in Nottingham and a further University Technical College (UTC) coming into the Trust in 2029. To support that growth we are moving to a hub model, built around Doncaster and Nottingham, so that every school gets responsive, expert support close to home while benefiting from the strength of a larger trust.

Our estate is central to that ambition. Children learn best in buildings that are safe, well maintained and designed around how they are taught. We want someone who sees the estate as a strategic asset, not just a list of jobs to fix, and who will help us plan, invest and build for the next decade. You do not need a background in education. Experience in construction, quantity surveying, facilities management or property could be exactly what we are looking for.

This role sits in the Central Team and reports directly to our Chief Operating Officer. You will be at the forefront of shaping the new estates function, building the team, setting the standards and leading the capital programme that will carry us through this next stage. If you want to leave a lasting mark on the places where children learn, we would love to hear from you.

About the Trust and the opportunity

Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust (BFLPT) is a multi academy trust of seven schools based in Doncaster. We believe every child deserves a brighter future, and we work together as one partnership to make that happen.

Our growth plan will see the Trust develop two regional hubs:

Doncaster hub: our existing seven schools and Central Team

Nottingham hub: primary schools joining the Trust, with further growth planned in the area

UTC: a University Technical College joining in 2029, bringing specialist technical and industry facilities into the estate

Until now, estates has been led operationally. As the Trust grows, we need strategic leadership that can look across every site, plan investment years ahead and make sure each hub has the right people, contracts and systems in place. The Director of Estates will build that function from the ground up, working alongside the CEO, COO, the CFO and our headteachers.

For an informal, confidential discussion about this role, please contact Tarina Chow on 01302 885811.

The closing date for applications is 9am on 9 November 2026.

The interviews will be held on 13 November 2026.

If you have not heard anything by the 10 November 2026 please assume you have been unsuccessful in this instance

Applicants are advised to read the BFLPT Recruitment Pack carefully, in conjunction with the job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.

To apply, please submit:

* A completed application form

* A supporting letter (maximum two A4 pages) outlining:

* Your motivation for applying

* How you meet the person specification

* The experience, skills and qualities you would bring to the role

To begin your application, please follow the link on our Trust website: Vacancies at BFLPT

If invited to interview, where modifications/reasonable adjustments are required for a disability, it is the candidate’s responsibility to notify the school/Trust in advance.

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 Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/brighter-futures-learning-partnership-trust

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