Overview
Are you an experienced Estates and Facilities leader with the strategic vision, professional expertise and passion to shape exceptional learning environments for thousands of children and young people? Delta Academies Trust is seeking an outstanding Director of Estates and Facilities to lead its Trust-wide estates strategy and ensure safe, compliant, inspiring, and future‑ready environments across all its academies.
This is a full‑time, permanent position with a 37‑hour week and is available as soon as possible.
Responsibilities
As the Director of Estates and Facilities, you will provide strategic and operational leadership of the Trust’s Estates and Facilities Management services across all of the Trust’s sites.
Reporting to the Executive Leadership Team, you will shape and deliver the long‑term estates strategy to support the Trust’s educational ambitions.
You will lead a multidisciplinary professional team, driving a culture of excellence, compliance, innovation and continuous improvement. You will ensure the academies benefit from high‑quality, cost‑effective estates services—including capital works, maintenance, compliance, security, health and safety, and facilities management, both hard and soft services.
Essential Skills and Experience
We are looking for the successful postholder to bring the necessary skills and experience required for this role, including a proven track record in estates and facilities management at a multi‑site level.
Employee Benefits
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
Equal Opportunity and Safeguarding
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list/prohibition lists.
Delta Academies Trust undertakes to treat all applicants for posts fairly and not to discriminate unfairly against volunteers or paid staff who voluntarily reveal that they have a criminal conviction. Equally, we will not discriminate unfairly against volunteers or paid staff where a Disclosure and Barring Service check reveals a criminal conviction or other information about offences. Therefore, we will consider job applicants who have a criminal record based on their skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and, where needed, qualifications and training. However, our approach depends on the job, and whether it is covered by, or exempt from, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. However, if we receive a high volume of applications, we may limit the number of interviews offered to people with and without a disability.
How to Apply
For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at Careers with Delta • Delta Academies Trust (deltatrust.org.uk).
If you would like to speak to our current Director of Facilities or our Chief Finance & Operations Officer, please contact Recruitment on 03451960095 or at recruitment@deltatrust.org.uk.
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