Schools scheme chalks-up four jobs

OLDHAM is advertising for a £157,000 quartet to complete the team heading the borough’s £266 million secondary school overhaul.

It is offering a salary of £38,575 to £41,204 for a project manager and £35,953 to £38,575 for a client project manager.

The other posts advertised are a business manager at £36,838 to £39,460 and an accountant at £35,079 to £37,655.

They would take the project team up to a total of 10 full-time equivalent staff.

All of Oldham’s secondary schools will be rebuilt or refurbished by 2014 under Oldham’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.

This includes replacing five schools with three academies run by sponsors and merging Our Lady’s and St Augustine’s in a new Catholic high school.

However, a report in May into Labour’s bungled plans to build the Catholic secondary next to the Oldham bypass said they were driven by a management team which was too small and criticised inadequate planning.

The new Liberal Democrat leadership decided last year that the location was not deliverable.

The former Radclyffe Lower School site on Broadway, Chadderton, was chosen instead.