Shape Our Future: Head of Estates Vacancy at Initio Learning Trust
This is a brand new role to develop a Trust shared service in the operations portfolio.
* Role: Head of Estates
* Contract: Full-Time (all year round), Permanent, 37 hours per week, hybrid working
* Location: Covering Dorset, Wimborne, Bridport areas
* Salary: £54,495 - £60,588
Are you a strategic and dynamic estates professional ready for a new challenge? Do you have the vision to build and shape a shared service?
At Initio Learning Trust, we are committed to providing outstanding environments for our students and staff. To achieve this, we are creating a new, pivotal role: Head of Estates.
This is not a role for someone who wants to simply manage; it's a role for a leader who wants to build, innovate, and embed a new way of working across our multi-academy Trust.
Your Mission: As our first Head of Estates, you will be a key member of our central operations team, responsible for developing and leading a brand-new shared service. You will provide strategic leadership for our estates and facilities management, ensuring our school buildings are safe, sustainable, and future-ready.
About You: You are a highly skilled and experienced estates professional with a proven track record in a multi-site organisation. You are a strategic thinker, an expert in project management, and a natural collaborator. You are passionate about creating environments that enable people to thrive.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and implement the Trust's estates strategy.
* Lead the Estates shared service, including all aspects of compliance, capital programmes, and operational management.
* Manage capital development projects and bids.
* Advise and support senior leaders and school Heads on estates-related matters.
* Champion sustainability and efficiency across all our sites.
Why Join Us?
* Impact: This is a chance to make a tangible, lasting impact on the lives of thousands of students and staff across our Trust.
* Autonomy: You will have the freedom to design and build a service that sets the standard for our sector.
* Collaboration: You will be part of a supportive and forward-thinking central team that is passionate about what they do.
* Growth: We are committed to your professional development and will support you in this exciting new chapter of your career.
Please refer to the attached job description for more details about the role.
If you have any further questions, please request to make contact with the recruiting manager Mike Bradley, Director of Operations by emailing
Please Note: the actual salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and paid annual leave entitlement for an employee with under 5 years' service.
About our Central Team
Inito's central team consists of groups of specialists who provide the support, guidance and resources to enable our schools to focus on what they do best; delivering excellence in education.
Please visit our Trust website for a taste of what working in our central team looks like
Initio Learning Trust offers a welcoming and supportive environment and can provide:
* a genuine commitment to supporting professional development
* a supportive and flexible working environment which offers equal opportunities for all
* free onsite parking
* access to the local government pension scheme
* a range of employee benefits including Cycle to Work and Health Cash Plan
Initio Learning Trust comprises 17 schools across Dorset, with our head office based in Wimborne. Formed in February 2022 from the merger of The Minerva Learning Trust and Wimborne Academy Trust, we offer outstanding education through every stage of schooling, from nursery through to upper sixth form. We believe in enabling every person to thrive within their role, and our core values of Ambition, Collaboration and Respect underpin the pride we take in offering genuine professional development opportunities for all our staff; and in our focus on staff wellbeing.