Aspiring School Business Manager/Office Manager
Ark Evelyn Grace Academy, London, SE24 0QN34 days remaining to apply
Closing date
30 August 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,452 - £40,427
Aspiring School Business Manager/Office Manager job summary
Aspiring School Business Manager/Office Manager
Reports to: Vice Principal – Business & Community
Start date: ASAP
Location: 255 Shakespeare Rd, London, SE24 0QN
Salary: Grade 8 (£34,452 - £40,427)
Contract: Permanent
Closing date & Interviews: Exceptional candidate may be interviewed as applications are received
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for an aspiring School Business Manager/Office Manager to join Ark Evelyn Grace Academy. We are seeking a dynamic, solution-focused, and professional individual to become part of our friendly, dedicated, and hardworking Business Support Team.
The Role
In this pivotal position, you will lead and be central to the Academy's administrative operations, ensuring the office runs smoothly each day. Your responsibilities will include coordinating office activities, managing communications, maintaining records, and supporting the needs of staff, students, and parents. You and your team will consistently strive for operational excellence, delivering the best administrative services in schools.
Your exceptional organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask will be crucial in creating a productive and positive environment, significantly contributing to the success of the school community. You will directly support the Vice Principal – Business and Community and work closely with the premises, catering, and HR team to ensure that daily operations are carried out efficiently and effectively. Additionally, you will exchange best practices and partner with Ark Globe Academy to innovate administrative processes across sites.
In this dynamic role, you will acknowledge that no two days are the same, embracing the variety and challenges that come with supporting a thriving school environment.
Our school:
Ark Evelyn Grace Academy is an 11-16 mixed secondary school, located at the heart of the London Borough of Lambeth. Our mission statement is to empower our students to be the voice of their future. This is based on the belief that each young person is different, difference should be embraced, and each young person has a unique contribution to make and should be given a voice. Through finding their voice, young people can lead empowered lives where they have choice, agency and influence. We are focused on the future as we want our young people to be the face of it.
Through providing a nurturing environment, a high-quality education and a wide range of experiences and opportunities, we enable all our young people to have choices over the direction of their lives. We want our young people to be heard, be seen and be their best, making significant progress in school and securing high quality destinations so that they reach their full potential.
We are part of the Ark network, a highly successful MAT with a well-regarded CPD offer for leaders and teachers at all levels. We are passionate about developing and delivering tremendous outcomes for students and invest significantly in our staff.
The opportunity:
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for an aspiring School Business Manager/Office Manager to join Ark Evelyn Grace Academy. We are seeking a dynamic, solution-focused, and professional individual to become part of our friendly, dedicated, and hardworking Business Support Team.
You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across the network and will feed into the development of excellent practice beyond Ark Evelyn Grace.
What we offer:
· Salary higher than the national pay scales
· Twice as many training days as standard and network-wide events with Ark colleagues, held by the best minds in education
· Coaching for every Employee
· Access to the high-quality, professional development, including nationally recognised qualifications such as NPSL
· Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the network
How to apply:
To apply, please submit an application via the Ark recruitment portal by 9am on Friday 30 August 2024. If you have any questions, concerns or time constraints with this deadline please let us know.
If you would like to be in touch for an informal and confidential conversation, please contact the Constance Boakye on hr@evelyngraceacademy.org.
For more information, please see attached job description
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
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About Ark Evelyn Grace Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 437 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ark Evelyn Grace Academy website (opens in new tab)
At Ark Evelyn Grace, we believe that education is transformational; that is why what we do matters and why we are always seeking to improve our practice. We intend for Ark Evelyn Grace Academy to be the school of choice in the local community, whose reputation is centred on great teaching, exemplary behaviour and unrivalled opportunities beyond the classroom.
Our commitment is that we will work tirelessly in teaching, guiding and supporting all our students, so that they may go on to secure a place at a good university and ultimately compete for the very best positions in their chosen career. The opportunity As a Subject Leader of RE you will take a lead role in the creation of a transformational school community by developing and leading an exciting RE curriculum which enables the highest level of pupil progress and attainment.
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