School Site Manager

The London Academy of Excellence is seeking to appoint a School Site Manager. The role comprises facilities management, hands-on building maintenance and caretaking.

Pay is c. £35,000 per annum.

This is a full-time, all-year round position.

Start date - 7th January 2025 (although a handover period beforehand would be useful.)

LAE Tottenham

• Academically selective Sixth Form, opened in September 2017. Results in the top 2% nationally for attainment and progress.

• Principal Education Sponsor Highgate School and Lead Business Sponsor Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

• Partnered by eight other leading independent schools - Alleyn’s, Chigwell, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’, Harrow, John Lyon, North London Collegiate, Mill Hill and St Dunstan’s College, each offering departmental support, CPD, expertise and shared student experiences.

• Providing first-class support into top class higher education and employment, focused on academically ambitious young people.

• Opportunities within the Chrysalis East programme, working with local secondary and primary schools to raise attainment across Tottenham.

• Housed in a stunning new state of the art school building linked to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

• Sunday Times ‘State Sixth Form College of the Year 2020-21’ and rated "outstanding" in all areas by Ofsted.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates representative of the range of backgrounds of our diverse student body.

Key responsibilities

• To oversee day to day Site Management for the school building, ensuring the premises are maintained to a high standard 
• To provide a hands on professional building maintenance service ensuring repairs are carried out to a high standard
• To escalate more serious building issues to the Business Director and to assist with procuring and overseeing contractors’ work 
• To ensure the smooth running of the school by assisting with the moving of furniture, parcels and other items
• To oversee the cleaning of the school building, working with the outsourced cleaning contractors

Specific tasks include elements of:

Maintenance 

Portering

Security

Compliance

Health and safety

For further details on the position, please see the attached Job Description / Person Specification for a detailed summary of the role and the general responsibilities of LAE Tottenham staff members.

LAE Tottenham offers a range of benefits to all directly-employed members of staff, including free breakfast and lunch and access to Benenden Health private healthcare.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and proactively seek to recruit a diverse staff body.

The London Academy of Excellence Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Further information is available on the school’s website.

This role is available on a full-time, permanent basis.

Closing date for applications - 29th November 2024.

Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c. 2nd December 2024.

(LAET will invite strong candidates to interview as applications come in throughout the designated advertisement period).

Start date - 07.01.25