Head of Estates
Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FU10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 August 2026 at 5pm
Date listed
11 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £55,825.00 - £59,824.00 Annually (FTE) Pay award pending
Head of Estates job summary
Five schools. One estates strategy. Your opportunity to shape it.
OAK’s five schools are in good condition. Compliance systems are established. Updated condition surveys are being completed. And there’s funding available to invest.
Now we’re looking for someone with the judgement and ambition to decide what comes next.
As Head of Estates, you’ll join the central senior leadership team, report directly to the CEO and take ownership of the Trust’s estates strategy.
You’ll have real authority to identify what needs doing, and the budget to make it happen.
You’ll assess condition, risk and need, set investment priorities and direct estates funding towards where it will make the greatest difference.
With five schools already part of OAK and ambitions to grow further, this is your opportunity to build an estates function ready for what comes next. You’ll bring individual site-led approaches together into one strategic, Trust-wide model, while recognising the individual needs and identity of each school.
And because OAK is still a relatively small Trust, you’ll see the impact of your decisions.
You’ll work directly with Headteachers and premises teams, supported by a central Premises Officer and colleagues across HR, finance and the wider central team. Collaboration matters here. OAK believes its schools and colleagues achieve more by working together, sharing expertise and supporting each other.
You’ll need to be visible across the schools, particularly while building relationships. You’ll also need the confidence to challenge, the diplomacy to bring people with you and the commercial judgement to make every pound count.
Because ultimately, your decisions aren’t just about buildings. They help create the places where young people can flourish, achieve and grow.
You may already work within a Multi Academy Trust, but you don’t have to.
OAK welcomes candidates from education, the NHS, charity or other complex multi-site environments. What matters is strong estates/facilities experience, multi-site leadership, H&S and compliance knowledge, commercial awareness and the ability to develop people as well as buildings.
You’ll receive 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 31 days after five years’ education service, a 17.3% employer pension contribution, CPD and a wider wellbeing and employee benefits package.
Interested?
To apply, send your CV to our recruitment partner, Tom Morrison, at Sielo Search at tom@sielosearch.com.
Not quite ready to apply? Tom would be happy to have a confidential, informal conversation about the opportunity. Call 07537 162323 or email Tom to ask any questions and decide whether this could be the right next step for you.
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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