Trust Estates Manager
Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FU17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
5th January 2026
Closing date
17 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
31 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
- £47,181.00 - £50,269.00 Annually (Actual)
Trust Estates Manager job summary
Trust Estates Manager
Salary £47,181 - £50,269 per annum, Full time, permanent
We are excited to share an opportunity to lead site operations and facilities
We are looking for an experienced estates professional who combines strong technical expertise, leadership and communication skills, to lead our Estates team as Trust Estates Manager.
In this role, you will be part of our central team, working closely with school leadership and site teams to deliver a high-quality responsive estates service, leading and delivering estate and facilities services, ensuring all health & safety legislation and statutory requirements are met. Working with Site Managers, you will take responsibility for the development and delivery of strong estate management routines and robust processes across our five sites.
You will also inform and lead the delivery of, the estates strategy balancing operational need with long term sustainability; truly shaping our learning environments by understanding the link with educational outcomes.
This is a full time, year round role based on site at our central trust office with travel to our schools as required.
About OAK Multi Academy Trust
OAK Multi Academy Trust is a flourishing Trust in Leicestershire with a family of five schools rooted in the values of Opportunity, Achievement and Kindness. The Trust currently operates schools across the age range from Foundation through to Key Stage 4 and has some of the highest performing outcomes in the country.
At OAK Trust we are committed to delivering excellence in education, and we know that this starts with supporting and developing our most valuable asset: our people.
About you
As a small trust, we are looking for a strategic leader willing to be hands-on when necessary, who is passionate about creating safe, compliant and inspiring learning environments to high standards.
You will therefore have a proven track record in facilities management, and a strong knowledge of building compliance, planned maintenance and capital project delivery.
Excellent communication skills are critical, with the ability to build trust and influence a range of stakeholders across the organisation, to provide expert guidance on everything from day-to-day maintenance issues to strategic estate planning.
In this role, you will need to thrive in complex environments; manage multiple streams of work from conducting technical building surveys, budget management, people management and representing the Trust.
If you understand that behind every technical decision lies the fundamental goal of supporting educational outcomes for our pupils, we’d love to hear from you.
We can offer you 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.
To learn more about the role or to arrange an informal chat, please email: pclarke@oaktrust.org.
Start date: 5th January 2026 (this would allow for a three-month handover with the current post holder who is retiring) or as soon as possible after this date
Important dates:
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a site visit - 21st November 2025
Interview date - 26th November 2025
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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