Princethorpe Foundation - Director Of Estates

Princethorpe Foundation - Director Of Estates

Foundation Director OF ESTATES Candidate information Pack

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8 key responsibilities 11 about you 12 Salary & Benfits 13 How to apply 14 General Information

Welcome to The Princethorpe FOUNDATION About The Princethorpe Foundation

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The Estate 6 about the job role 7

foundation leadership team

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Thank you for your interest in the role of Director of Estates at the Princethorpe Foundation. We are delighted that you are considering joining us and we hope that you will wish to apply for this position once you have found out more about us. The Princethorpe Foundation is an incredibly exciting place. We pride ourselves on being a warm, kind and caring organisation, as well as being disciplined and aspirational. We cater for a wide range of children from a variety of backgrounds and have an outstanding record of academic success by getting the very best from our pupils. Our schools have amazing histories, beautiful buildings and grounds and are made up of people who are incredibly friendly, bright and energetic. We aim to treat every pupil as an individual, supporting them to grow into mature, resilient, well-rounded and “world ready” young people with a strong set of moral values to guide them through adult life. We have two rules for pupils and staff: “Be kind and always give your very best”. The Foundation Director of Estates is a new and exciting role that will focus on developing and delivering the Foundation’s strategic plans for its Estates, along with providing the highest standards of leadership and management for this large department. The successful candidate will report to the Foundation Bursar and work closely with myself, the Heads of our two preparatory schools and senior leaders across the Foundation. Welcome to THE Princethorpe FOUNDATION

We have ambitious plans for all our schools not least the construction of a new Science Centre at Princethorpe, our largest campus project

to date, which will cost £8 million and provide 10 brand- new, state-of-the-art science laboratories. The project will also enable the College to re-develop and cluster several other departments within the main school building. I am really looking forward to working closely with the new Director of Estates and the exciting work that lies ahead.

Ed Hester Senior Foundation Head and Headmaster of Princethorpe College

“Ours is a spirit of family and a spirit of friendship formed by kindness and understanding, by compromise and mutual forgiveness, by gentleness, humility and simplicity, by hospitality and a sense of humour.” Jules Chevalier, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (founders of Princethorpe College)

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About The Princethorpe Foundation The Princethorpe Foundation welcomes children of all faiths and backgrounds and provides co-educational, independent day schooling with a strong Christian ethos. We support and nurture some 1,300 children from age two to eighteen years, through Little Crackers Nursery, Crackley Hall School, Crescent School and Princethorpe College. Princethorpe College Founded by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1966, Princethorpe College is a Catholic, co-educational, HMC independent day school for around 930 pupils aged eleven to eighteen, with around 200 students in the Sixth Form. The College is renowned for its ‘spirit of family’ and the way in which it looks after its pupils and its staff. About one quarter of the children at Princethorpe are Catholic and Christ’s teaching in the Gospels on love, service, forgiveness and generosity of spirit is central to the school’s character and approach to learning. The atmosphere is warm, open and friendly. We combine academic rigour and hard work with a caring and holistic approach to education. Crackley Hall School Crackley Hall (IAPS and ISA) and Little Crackers is a high achieving, thriving and happy Catholic school and nursery of around 300 pupils aged 2 to 11 years, situated in Kenilworth. Originally founded in 1862 by the Sisters of Mercy and known as St Joseph’s Convent School, Crackley Hall is located in an attractive former country residence, built for John Siddeley, Lord Kenilworth, on the edge of the town.

St Joseph’s merged with Princethorpe College in 2001 to become The Warwickshire Independent Schools Foundation, now the Princethorpe Foundation. The older girls moved to Princethorpe and the junior school and nursery became co- educational. Crescent School The Crescent School (IAPS and ISA) is an independent preparatory co-educational day school for around 170 pupils aged 4 to 11 years. Originally founded in 1948 (having informally started in 1946) as a school for the children of Rugby School masters, it was housed in Rugby School buildings. Having opened its doors to children living in Rugby and the surrounding district, it outgrew its premises and, in 1988, purchased a purpose-built school in Bilton, a leafy, residential suburb approximately 2 miles south of Rugby town centre. In September 2016, the Crescent School merged with the Princethorpe Foundation.

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The estate

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About the Role

The Director will lead a dedicated team which of estates and grounds staff and will line manage: + the Foundation Estates Manager who is responsible for the management and co-ordination of the programme of reactive and long-term maintenance and the delivery of a range of smaller projects across the Foundation; + the Foundation Grounds Manager; + the Foundation Health and Safety Manager; + the Estates Co-ordinator. The post holder will have overall responsibility for all aspects of compliance and health and safety within Estates. The post holder will be a member of the Foundation Executive Committee (FEC) and chair both the Estates Working Group and the Health and Safety Committee as well as attending the Foundation Estates Committee.

This is a new and exciting role within the Foundation reporting to the Foundation Bursar but also working in close partnership with the Heads and senior leaders across the Foundation. The Director of Estates will be responsible for all aspects of the Foundation’s Estate across three locations. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and deliver the Foundation’s strategic plans for its Estates, providing the highest standards of leadership and management for the department. The successful candidate will have the capacity to develop a strategic vision. They will have successful leadership experience and advanced people managements skills. They will have first-class organizational skills and be a capable and effective user of IT. The successful candidate will be creative and innovative, capable of driving change and be able to capture efficiencies whilst ensuring the highest quality of delivery coupled with strong customer service. The Director will have responsibility for a Foundation-wide decarbonisation strategy.

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foundation leadership team

Eddie Tolcher Foundation Bursar

Ed Hester Senior Foundation Head and Headmaster of Princethorpe College

Rob Duigan Headmaster of Crackley Hall School

Joe Thackway Headmaster of Crescent School

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Key responsibilities

+ Manage staff involved in a broad range of key functions including the management and co- ordination of the programme of reactive and long- term maintenance programmes, all elements of the infrastructure, maintain and upgrade key >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15

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