Operations Manager

ARK SCHOOLS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in London is seeking an experienced Operations Manager to join their senior team. This role involves strategic oversight of HR, building operations, and managing capital projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong attention to detail and experience in office management. The school offers a collaborative environment with a commitment to high-quality systems and processes.

Benefits

Bespoke professional development

Shopping discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in office management and HR.
• Ability to manage capital projects effectively.
• Commitment to high quality systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership on HR and office management.
• Oversee building operations and health and safety.
• Lead planned capital projects and community engagement.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Leadership

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly organised Operations Manager with fantastic attention to detail for our school. This is an exciting opportunity to join a truly exceptional senior team and provide strategic leadership on HR, office management, site and contractor management and projects. If you are an ambitious and driven individual with a passion for high quality systems and processes, this is the job for you.

This is a varied and exciting role where your contribution will greatly impact the operational success of our school. You will lead our planned capital projects as well as offering integral operations expertise and support across the school. The role operates on a 52 weeks per year contract, with 25 days annual leave per annum.

What’s Special About the Role

This newly created role falls within the school leadership team, providing day to day and strategic oversight and leadership for Operations. Key aspects of the role include, but are not limited to, HR, building operations, health and safety, capital projects, IT, community usage, catering and cleaning contract administration and operational support across the school.

Who We Are Looking For

Across school life, we embed high aspirations and a growth mindset in all of our children. We believe that every single child who joins us has the potential to be knowledgeable, articulate and successful. It’s important this resonates with all candidates. Equally important is subject expertise and knowledge, transferable skills and experience.

Why You Will Love Our School

There are lots of reasons! We’re based in a brand-new building with top class facilities. We serve a wonderfully diverse community - we are non-denominational, mixed gender and two fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding. We’re led by our values - Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team truly unite behind our vision. Curriculum is incredibly important to us and we’ve planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline. We timetable collaborative planning and love to engage in ‘productive struggle’. Every team member is supported with coaching and tailored professional development. Our extended school day allows us to offer a broad, rich curriculum and timetabled enrichment for every child, but we never have meetings after school. Our team say: ‘All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in’.

Read more about our school here. Click here to see our school in action. Click here to read our Ofsted report from September 2023.

Benefits

• Bespoke professional development to all team members
• Opportunity to plan and moderate with colleagues in the same discipline, beyond our own school gates
• Breadth of opportunities - many of our team have taken on leadership roles progressing from one of our sister schools
• Benefits beyond the classroom including everything from shopping discounts to a supportive and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark atarkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/

About Us

We are non-denominational, mixed gender school based in a brand-new building with top class facilities. We serve a diverse community and two-fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding. We’re led by our values - Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team unite behind our vision. Curriculum is important to us and we’ve planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline. We timetable collaborative planning and engage in ‘productive struggle’. Our extended school day allows us to offer a broad, rich curriculum and timetabled enrichment for every child, but we never have meetings after school. Our team say: ‘All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in’.

See our school in action here and hear what our staff have to say about why they love working at our school here.

Visit arkpioneer.org/jobs to learn more about us.

Diversity and Inclusion

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. All employees undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required to disclose any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. See Ark’s safer recruitment process for details.

P lease note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage submitting your application at your earliest convenience.