Director of Operations (Estates)
Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FU17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
as soon as possible
Closing date
29 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
12 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,825.00 - £59,824.00 Annually (Actual) £55,825-£59,824 per annum (pay award pending)
Director of Operations (Estates) job summary
Are you a strategic operational leader ready to make a real impact?
OAK Multi Academy Trust is seeking a dynamic Director of Operations to join our central senior leadership team and play a pivotal role in delivering outstanding services across our schools.
This is a newly created strategic leadership position building on our established operational foundations and reflecting our commitment to operational excellence as we develop and grow as a trust.
About the Role
This is a strategically important role which combines operational leadership with strategic oversight and operational engagement across our schools.
The Director of Operations will lead and develop our estates team and will therefore be an experienced estates professional who combines technical expertise with strong, leadership and communication skills.
You will be part of our central team, working closely with site teams to deliver a high-quality responsive estates service, ensuring all health & safety legislation and statutory requirements are met. You will also work closely with school leaders, providing professional operational advice and driving change and improvement initiatives. Managing multiple premises budgets to prioritise and direct funds on a needs-based basis, whilst ensuring value for money and achieving economies of scale.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in a forward-thinking multi-academy trust.
About you
You will work at both strategic and operational levels, shaping trust wide systems while remaining visible and engaged with site teams and day-to-day delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the trust has the operational capacity, systems and infrastructure necessary to support future growth.
We are looking for a leader who
Has proven experience leading, developing and performance-managing teams, is highly organised, resilient and solutions focused and can operate strategically whilst remaining practically engaged.
Builds strong professional relationships and works collaboratively with school leaders and contractors.
What We Offer
A welcoming and inclusive workplace with a genuine commitment to supporting your development, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, free parking, fantastic discounts on high street shops through the Blue Light discount scheme and other employee benefit schemes. Please refer to the OAK Candidate Information Pack to learn more about the benefits we offer.
Alongside genuine strategic influence as part of the central senior leadership team and an opportunity to shape operational strategy across a growing trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious trust with a strong reputation for educational quality, operational integrity and values-led leadership.
Visits and informal conversations are warmly welcomed.
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Oak Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
As a thriving, local trust of five schools covering 3-16 age ranges, we are located in Leicestershire and Leicester City, with an infant, a junior, two primaries, and one secondary. We are passionate about making a real
difference to the lives of all our children and about empowering our whole school communities to enable this to happen to its fullest.
Our OAK vision statement is: Together we grow great schools
We do this through our values by:
Continually identifying and supporting opportunities to improve;
having an unerring ambition to achieve; and
embodying kindness by doing the “right thing”
We believe that our colleagues are our greatest asset and we are building on our strong base of colleague benefits through extensive instructional coaching utilising Steplab. We are proud that two of our schools are
becoming a Steplab hub in September 2024. We are currently launching our exciting Trust wide digital transformation program Frontiers which will see over half our schools introduce 1:1 iPad programme in 2024-25.
Each of our schools has a strong identity, a hallmark of OAK. We collaborate extensively and agree strategy together whilst always valuing the different contexts of our schools. Each of our schools believe that we are stronger together and we have equity for all our pupils at the heart of our strategic decisions.
Our schools are:
Brookside Primary School
Manor High School
Overdale Infants School
Overdale Junior School
Woodland Grange Primary School
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