Senior Operations Manager

Voyage Education Partnership; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Derby is seeking a highly organized Senior Operations Manager to join their Senior Leadership Team. This full-time, permanent position requires strong leadership and operational management skills to oversee various non-teaching functions. The successful candidate will have a crucial role in driving the academy's success and ensuring the smooth operation of its services.

Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Recognition of Continuous Service

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior operational or business management, ideally in education.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic direction and operational delivery for all non-teaching functions.
• Oversee finance, HR, administration, health and safety, and catering services.
• Contribute towards driving the school’s success.

Skills

Leadership

People Management

Organizational Skills

Strategic Planning

Crisis Management

Education

Experience in operational or business management

Degree or equivalent qualification in education or management

Job description

Education Phase: Primary

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Wednesday, 25th June 2025

About us

St Giles Spencer Academy is an Outstanding Primary Special Academy in Derby City. We are a warm, friendly and inclusive academy which meets the needs of pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities.

St Giles Spencer Academy is looking to appoint an enthusiastic Senior Operations Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team to contribute towards driving the continued success of our academy. You will be responsible for the strategic direction and operational delivery of the business and operational functions of the school including finance, HR and personnel, administration, premises, health and safety and catering services; all of the school’s non-teaching functions.

This is an exciting opportunity, and we are looking for a highly organised and skilled individual who has strong leadership and people management skills, has proven experience of senior operational or business management (ideally within an education setting) and someone who can work effectively under pressure with conflicting work demands.

This role is a permanent, full-time and all-year round position. The start date is as soon as possible to allow for a handover with the current post-holder prior to September 2025, where possible.

We are proud of what we do at St Giles Spencer Academy and our recent school achievements are a result of a great team effort amongst pupils and their families, governors and staff:

•Special School of the Year Award

•Ofsted ‘Outstanding’

•NASEN Learning Support Staff of the Year Award

•Inclusion Quality Mark Flagship

•Family First Quality Award

•British Council International Schools Award

•Arts Mark Gold Award

•Learning Outside the Classroom Award

•National Autistic Society Accredited School

If you want to be part of an innovative, forward thinking and outward facing special school who are genuinely committed to investing in your professional development, then St Giles could be the academy for you.

You can view our recruitment brochure and video by visiting our school website: https://stgilesspencer.org.uk/Vacancies/.

If you would like more information about the post and / or an informal visit to the school, please contact Sofia Orme, Academy Business Manager via 01332 343039 or [e-mail].

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18,000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.

Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.

We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact the school via [e-mail] or by calling 01332 343039.

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 25 June 2025, 9am

Interviews will take place on: w/c 30 June 2025

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.

If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

Job Description

Please see attached Job Description.

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme | Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) | BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes) | Recognition of Local Government and Academy Continuous Service. For full details, please click here: https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employeebenefits