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Assistant Operations and Lettings Manager

Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NX

This job expired on 18 August 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025 or as soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  31 July 2025

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: £31,773.00 - £36,830.00 Annually (Actual) H7/H8, commensurate with experience and responsibilities, actual annual salary £31,773 - £36,830 (plus April 2025 pay award once ratified by the government)

Assistant Operations and Lettings Manager job summary

Full Time, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks a year

Salary: H7/H8, commensurate with experience and responsibilities

Annual salary: £31,773 - £36,830 (plus April 2025 pay award once ratified by the government)

Start date: September 2025 or as soon as possible

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit an Assistant Operations and Lettings Manager. This role supports the School Operations Manager in critical areas such as management of lettings and catering, health & safety and capital projects.

Sandringham School is a highly popular, outstanding mixed school for pupils from 11-18 years old. Renowned locally for its facilities, the school houses an indoor swimming pool, 4G pitch, 100m polyurethane sprint track and recently expanded multi-use tennis & netball courts.

Our professional, 266 seat arts venue, the SandPit Theatre, is also based on site supporting the production of award-winning school performances and hosting a multitude of hirers.

This is a key role in supporting the school to maintain its site at a high standard and in continually seeking to improve the facilities to support our students' education in a more sustainable environment.

The Assistant Operations Manager also manages our catering provider, who serve break and lunch across our two large canteens and sixth form cafe.

Please refer to the job description for more details.

The successful candidate will:

• have relevant experience, within or outside an education environment
• be able to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• have excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• be able to use initiative and work without supervision, but also a great team player
• promote Sandringham’s ethos and values

Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and ATLAS Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 18th August 2025.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Sandringham School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1817 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sandringham School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sandringham-school-st-albans

Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.

We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'

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