Trust Facilities Contracts Manager

Glf Schools, Banstead, SM7 1AG

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 October 2025

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 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: Senior Specialist - £42,848 FTE

Trust Facilities Contracts Manager job summary

GLF Schools is seeking a highly organised and proactive Trust Facilities Contracts Officer to join our Estates Team.

Your Opportunity

Based at our Banstead office with hybrid working available, this role offers the chance to lead on the mobilisation and management of facilities service contracts across our network of schools. You’ll play a key role in ensuring high-quality service delivery, compliance, and value for money across contracts such as cleaning, groundskeeping, and utilities. Working closely with suppliers, school teams, and Trust colleagues, you’ll oversee contract performance, lead service review meetings, and support the procurement of new contracts. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills to make a tangible impact across a multi-academy trust.

Please note that travel across school sites will be essential, so the successful candidate must hold a valid UK Driving licence and have access to their own vehicle. 

What we are looking for

We’re looking for someone who can bring expertise, professionalism and a collaborative approach to our Estates team. You’ll be:

• Experienced in managing facilities services contracts, including mobilisation and performance monitoring.
• Skilled in leading service review meetings and building strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
• Confident in analysing data, writing reports, and making recommendations for service improvements.
• Knowledgeable in contract compliance, KPIs, and quality assurance in a public sector context.
• Able to resolve service delivery issues and negotiate with providers to ensure continuity and quality.
• Comfortable working across multiple sites, with a valid UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle.
• Organised, methodical and resilient, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Please read the job description and person specification attached before applying. 

Join Our Community

As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 43 academies or in our central team.

• A growing Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 17,000 pupils
• Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness
• 43 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England
• We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity
• Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education

Our Employment Offer

GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish

• Access to our highly competitive pension scheme (LGPS)
• Generous holiday allowance
• Work life and family friendly policies
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Access to a staff benefits portal
• Community and collaboration working model

The Details

Salary: GLF Senior Specialist - £42,848 FTE

Location: The Beacon School, Banstead/ Hybrid / Visits to schools where required

Contract type: Permanent, 36hrs per week - full time.

Start Date: ASAP

Closing date for applications: 15th October 2025

Interview Date: TBC 

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Glf Schools

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/glf-schools

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