Trust Estates Manager
South West Essex Community Education Trust Limited, Grays, RM16 2QH14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2027
Closing date
18 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £48,060.00 - £54,834.00 Annually (Actual)
Trust Estates Manager job summary
South West Essex Community Education Trust is seeking an experienced and proactive Trust Estates Manager to provide strategic leadership across the Trust's estate. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring our schools provide safe, compliant, sustainable and inspiring environments in which pupils and staff can thrive.
The successful candidate will oversee all aspects of estates management, including buildings, grounds, health and safety, contract management and major capital projects. They will lead the delivery of the Trust's Estate Strategy, Asset Management Plan and Sustainability Strategy while ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
Working closely with school leaders and the wider estates team, the postholder will provide expert advice and guidance, manage estate-related risks, and drive continuous improvement across the Trust's portfolio, ensuring value for money and supporting our educational vision.
Why SWECET?
At South West Essex Community Education Trust, we are passionate about providing the best start in life for our pupils. We are united in the belief that every young person needs and deserves an education that will maximise their future life chances.
We place our pupils’ needs at the heart of everything we do and support our colleagues in delivering high-quality education. Our vision is to establish a national reputation for the quality of education we provide.
Our academies are united by the things that make us both similar and unique - the DNA that ties us all together. The SWECET DNA is made up of the following components: Developing our people, nurturing our differences, and Aspiring for excellence.
We believe that our colleagues are our most precious resource to provide high-quality learning experiences for all our pupils. Our colleagues work hard to support teams in their own schools and across the Trust and in return, the SWECET Wellbeing Charter sets out our actions to support our colleagues.
If you have the experience, knowledge and enthusiasm to make a real difference across our Trust, we would love to hear from you. Visits from prospective candidates are warmly welcomed and encouraged. To arrange a visit, please email recruitment@swecet.org
If interested in this vacancy please submit your application for the position as soon as possible, as we may close the advertisement early.
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.
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- Multi-academy trust
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