Group Director of Estates & Facilities

Salary: £60,000 to £80,000 per annum

Closing date: 9am on Monday 23 September 2024

Interview date: w/c Monday 30 September 2024

Be part of our team!

TBCG is one of the largest FE providers in England and has grown rapidly in the last few years. Whilst each of our colleges have their own unique environment, we are all united by a common purpose: to help individuals, communities and society flourish through education by raising aspirations and reducing inequality to create a sustainable future.

Our Group Director of Estates & Facilities will provide strategic and operational leadership to our estates service, guiding the departmental team in creating a safe, sustainable, and positive environment across our college campuses for students and staff, while ensuring the learner remains at the heart of everything we do. The successful candidate will identify and prioritise capital projects across the estate, seek and secure external funding opportunities and project manage significant refurbishment or new build projects.

With recent experience in a leadership role within estates and/or facilities management, the ideal candidate will have a proven track record in successful strategic and project planning. You will possess comprehensive knowledge of health & safety regulations, building codes and environmental regulations, along with experience in securing external funding for projects.

We have appointed FE Associates to support us with this important appointment.  Contact Suzanne.Thurlow@fea.co.uk to discuss this exciting opportunity before applying.

Dear colleague,

Thank you for your interest in the role of Group Director of Estates & Facilities at The Bedford College Group (TBCG). The Group is the 7th largest further education college group in the sector by income and comprises 7 distinct colleges with 3 further educational colleges, 2 sixth form colleges and 1 national college for motorsport.

Our values are extremely important to us and keep the student at the heart of everything we do, but none more so than those of valuing teamwork, continuously improving, caring, and student experience all of which sit at the heart of this role.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of leading a successful estates and/or facilities function and be committed to enabling the best quality of surroundings for our students to learn within. The successful candidate will be part of The Group’s senior leadership team and will be part of providing a clear vision and strategies to improve the student experience and work at pace to achieve this.

To succeed in this role, you will come to us as an expert senior leader with experience in managing major projects and effectively handling all that comes with those, such as budgets, project plans, Health & Safety etc., and possess highly ambitious leadership.

You will be coming to TBCG at an extremely exciting period of change, with our new CEO having commenced in January this year with a passionate commitment to, and vision of excellence that will take us forward in the next stage of TBCG’s evolution.

We have appointed FE Associates to support us with this important appointment.  Interested parties are strongly encouraged to contact our FE Associates recruitment partner, Suzanne.Thurlow@fea.co.uk, to arrange an initial discussion prior to submitting an application.

With best wishes

Gulam Fatima
Chief Finance Officer

If you have the very special qualities and the passion to make a real a difference to the future of our students and business, then we would like to hear from you.

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We have appointed FE Associates to help us find the right person.  Prior to submitting an application, interested parties are advised to arrange an initial conversation with our FE Associates lead consultant, by emailing Suzanne.Thurlow@fea.co.uk to discuss the role before the closing date.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 23 September 2024

Interview date: w/c Monday 30 September 2024

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