School Estate Manager

Wood Green School, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1DX

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  22 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

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: £34,434.00 - £37,280.00 Annually (Actual) 52 weeks per year

School Estate Manager job summary

Woodstock Road, Witney, Oxon, OX28 1DX

Web Address: www.wgswitney.org.uk

Tel: 01993 702355 Email: office@wgswitney.org.uk

Head Teacher:  Mr R W Shadbolt

School Estate Manager

Lead the Way in Creating Inspiring Learning Environments.

Wood Green School is proud of a safe, well-run estate that supports great teaching, vibrant community use, and a busy programme of improvements. With a new build underway (2026/27 completion) and a refreshed Operational Excellence strategy, we’re strengthening how we manage our site with the introduction of the School Estate Manager.

About the role

As School Estates Manager, you’ll be the lead practitioner for our buildings and grounds: the person who makes sure the estate is safe, compliant and fit for purpose. You’ll oversee planned and reactive maintenance, manage estates contracts (e.g. cleaning, statutory inspections), run the premises helpdesk, and drive service standards using clear KPIs.

You’ll line-manage a 5-person estates team, enabling them to deliver, while you focus on assurance, improvements and readiness for projects.

You will

• Lead estate compliance and assurance: Act as Responsible Person for fire safety and Duty Holder for asbestos/water hygiene, ensuring all statutory checks, risk assessments and remedial actions are completed to standard.

• Manage estates operations: Oversee the premises helpdesk, cleaning contract, planned/reactive maintenance and estate readiness for lettings and events.

• Drive improvement and value: Monitor KPIs, manage budgets for maintenance and grounds, compile quotes/business cases, and lead estates-side continuous improvement and sustainability reporting.

• Lead and develop the team: Line-manage the estates team, ensuring recruitment, induction, performance and training build a resilient workforce.

What we’re looking for

• A practical estates/facilities professional with strong compliance knowledge (H&S at Work, Fire Safety Order, asbestos/Legionella).

• Organised, calm under pressure, and comfortable juggling compliance, projects and day-to-day operations.

• Confident managing staff and contractors; able to set clear standards and follow through, as well as maintaining high standards of service delivery.

• Data-minded, able to use KPIs to spot trends and drive improvements.

• NEBOSH/IOSH (or equivalent/willingness to work toward) and solid hands-on experience in a regulated setting (education/public sector desirable).

Why join Wood Green School?

This is an exciting time to shape the future of our estate. You’ll play a central role in developing a new five-year School Estate Management Strategy, aligned with the Trust’s emerging strategy, and have the opportunity to review current ways of working and implement improvements. Your work will directly protect teaching and learning, improve the experience of students, staff and the community, and ensure value for money in everything we do.

If you’re ready to lead a safe, compliant, high-performing school estate, and enjoy seeing the impact of your work every day, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply please visit My New Term by the 22nd October 2025 at Midday.

Wood Green School and the Acer Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism; all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people.  The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and obtain any other statutorily required clearance.  Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/last employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.  Wood Green School is an equal opportunities employer. 

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Wood Green School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the health, safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment for whom they are responsible or with whom they come into contact in the course of their duties. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.

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 Wood Green School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1329 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wood Green School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wood-green-school

Wood Green is an over subscribed 11-18 Academy school in the thriving town of Witney, 10 miles west of Oxford. Our strong reputation and results improving year on year have led to a rapid rise in student applications. We believe strongly in a culture of mutual respect and strong relationships, and everything is underpinned by our LEARNWell values.

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