Head of Estates

5 days ago


Dartford, United Kingdom North Kent College Full time

**Head of Estates**

**Hours**: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday), 52 weeks per annum.

**Salary**:£55,000 per annum.

**Where you’ll work**: This is a multi-sited role, primarily based at our Dartford Campus.

Here at North Kent College, we deliver to students across North and West Kent from our main four campuses, Dartford, Gravesend, Tonbridge and Hadlow, which is a Land Based Curriculum offering. Since our takeover of Hadlow and Tonbridge in 2020, the Collegehave been successful in bidding for funding to deliver capital improvements at these new sites and Dartford which has further enhanced our infrastructure.

As such, our busy Estates team are currently seeking a new Head of Estates to play a key role in the development of our extensive estate to provide strategic and operational leadership to this vital service area for the College.

As the Head of Estates at North Kent College, you will be a key senior member of our management team, reporting directly to the Deputy Chief Executive and assisting with the development of the Estates strategy to ensure response to wider aims and plans.

You’ll be a natural communicator with excellent commercial and legislative awareness, able to motivate your team to achieve the highest quality service provision for all stakeholders. You’ll also be adept at building and maintaining positive working relationshipswith contractors, negotiating with skill to ensure the best possible outcomes, especially during procurement and tendering processes.

Solid experience of managing an Estates team which delivers services via both directly employed and third-party contract staff is essential, and you’ll also have a proven track record of successfully delivering large projects on time and within budget. Theability to drive change, bolster existing processes and manage competing priorities is a must.

You won’t be afraid to challenge people’s ideas when needed, and your own to check strategies are working. Last but not least, you’ll bring enthusiasm to make this key position your own.

In return, we’ll give you 42 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, and you’ll be enrolled onto the Local Government Pension Scheme which also includes life assurance. You’ll also benefit from free onsite parking and have access to a range of onsite facilitiesincluding a nursery, restaurants, gym and coffee shops.

**For a full job description and to apply, please visit North Kent College’s staff vacancies page.



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