Senior Capital Project Manager / Head of Capital Projects
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
15 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
21 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36hrs per week, 8.45am – 4.30pm (M-Th); 8.45am – 4.15pm (Fr)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- 36hrs per week, 8.45am – 4.30pm (M-Th); 8.45am – 4.15pm (Fr)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic person to lead our Capital Projects Team with overall responsibility for leading the delivery of a multi-million pound service across the Trust. The team is part of the central business support team, based in Sutton, that delivers services to our schools and college as part of a multi-functional team including finance, human resources, procurement, marketing, and IT.
You will have a track record of delivering complex projects to time and budget within the time limited delivery windows available to us during school and college holiday periods. You will manage estates capital projects ensuring specifications are appropriately scoped in collaboration with our building surveying partners, commissioning partners and school/college leadership teams.
In partnership with our Finance Team, you will liaise and report on the capital and revenue budgets for projects being undertaken, including tracking of expenditure, forecasting and reporting, working to ensure projects are delivered within identified resources.
As an experienced and qualified professional, you will lead a large and complex team of internal and external project managers and suppliers and work collaboratively with other internal stakeholders to deliver projects that enhance our learning environments both from a curriculum and non- curriculum perspective, ensuring all projects are delivered successfully, on time and within budget. Experience of professional partnerships and relationships as well as significant experience in programme management is essential.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
What the school offers its staff
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT) is a family of specialist education providers for over 1500 pupils and students from nursery to further education across 14 academies and 9 college centres in London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. Supporting our academies and college, OHC&AT also operate learning support, such as nursing and therapy, and a central business support team which includes HR, finance and IT.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
OHC&AT is a rewarding and inspirational place to work, where everyone works together to create the best possible outcomes for students. To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit www.ohcat.org
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.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 02038977077
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
Arranging a visit to Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
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