Strategic Head of Estates

**STRATEGIC HEAD OF ESTATES**

**Applications will only be accepted directly on our website**

**CANDIDATE PACK**

Open Letter from our CEO

Astrea is an ambitious, dynamic and young trust with a mission to tackle historic educational disadvantage. Our academies are based across South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, often in areas which have experienced generationally poor educational opportunities. Our role is to change that. We want to play our part in the social regeneration of these areas.

We have grown rapidly over the last four years and now educate around 14,000 students in 27 academies. Whilst our educational outcomes have improved over the last 4 years, they are not yet as strong as we would like them to be, nor as strong as our students and communities deserve.

With this in mind, we are entering a new period in our development. We are increasingly clear and specific about our vision for behaviour, curriculum and teaching quality, but our sense of what defines us is still evolving. With this in mind, we are looking for leaders who:
Want to be part of our journey to outstanding, shaping our vision, and helping us to unlock the collective power of our system. If you’re a solo flyer, our Trust is not for you.

Share our commitment to an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all pupils.

Believe that in a Multi-Academy Trust, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and that it is our collective responsibility to get the best outcomes for all our pupils.

Bring expertise, aspiration, courage, and a collegial approach. We are brave for our communities and we welcome challenge and ambition.

Are authentic, visible and driven.

Bring an academic perspective to their work, supported by well-researched, well-evidenced approaches that make us think and push the trust’s practice forwards

Want our schools to be joyful places to learn, underpinned by expert teaching, brilliant curriculum, broad opportunities for learning and excellent consistent behaviour in every classroom.

For our part, we commit to challenging you, inspiring you, supporting your development and giving you access to leadership opportunities not only within your own school, but also across our Trust as your role develops.

Best Wishes

Rowena Hackwood

CEO at Astrea Academy Trust

JOB TITLE:
Strategic Head of Estates

REPORTING TO:
Chief Operating Officer

SALARY RANGE:
£57,125 - £70,925 negotiable

ACTUAL SALARY IF PRO RATA:
N/A

CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent

WORKING PATTERN:
Full Time, 37.5 Hrs per week

Role Description

Purpose

To lead and inspire your team to deliver operational excellence through a clear, **Lead on sustainability programme to reduce carbon footprint and costs in line with strategic vision that enables our 27 schools with 2,500 staff to provide the best environment for a brilliant education to our 14,500 pupils. With academies our strategy, working towards Net Zero. spanning South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, you will be central, through provision of appropriate estate and facilities, to helping young people, many ** To instigate building and plant condition surveys to support a capital programme of from disadvantaged backgrounds, realise their ambitions and dreams. Hybrid related works. working from our central office in Sheffield plus home and including routine visits to our schools and leaders, you will serve our academies with absolute **Manage routine maintenance programme of the building fabric, electrical and dedication to provide the best support available. mechanical systems.**

Your post will be challenging and rewarding in equal measures with your **Manage and hold contractors to account to ensure effectiveness and value for decisions contributing directly towards teaching and learning success. From money. planning and the management of c.£10m annual budgets, you will be intimate to maintaining the present while investing in a sustainable future. We have an ** Supported by your deputy, ensure all estates and associated staff are appropriately exciting programme of carbon footprint reduction, equally driving down costs trained for role. to channel ever more into education. In sum, you will be dedicated to professional excellence, committed to our Trust and Vision, champion and **Ensure health and safety compliance across the Trust estate and staff. bedrock of our fantastic schools.**

Main Duties and Responsibilities **Lead on the Trust Business continuity Plan, liaising with Executive team and school leaders when creating and reviewing processes and procedures.**
- Lead your team with professionalism, passion and pride, humble and utterly driven towards excellence. **Ensure that communication and consultation is made with all departments when implementing the development of new works, adaptions or alterations.**:

- Strategic Estates planner.
- Ensure environmental legislation compliance.
- Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer, as required.
- Ensure the Trust’s Asset Management Plan