Business and Operations Manager

Oatlands Community Junior School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8QP

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  9 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,752.00 - £20,411.00 Annually (Actual)

Business and Operations Manager job summary

• Maternity cover secondment from September 2025
• 22.5 hours per week, over 3 or 4 days
• Term-Time Only + training days + 3 additional weeks (pro-rated)

We are delighted to offer this excellent opportunity at Oatlands Junior School!

As our Business and Operations Manager, you will take the lead on all aspects of school operations, ensuring the effective and efficient running of day-to-day services. This is a pivotal role within our school, suited to a confident and solutions-focused professional who can manage multiple priorities, think strategically, and drive continuous improvement. You will work closely with our Headteacher and central Trust teams to ensure our systems, services, and facilities are aligned in supporting the best possible outcomes for our pupils.

About Our School

We are a busy and friendly school with three classes per year group and where every child is important to us. We are committed to providing an inclusive, safe, positive, and stimulating learning environment, where excellence thrives through high standards of learning, attitudes, and behaviour. Our collective aim is to ensure that all children strive to achieve and exceed their goals, whilst nurturing a life-long love of learning. Our ethos, ‘caring about today, creating successful tomorrows’ is at the heart of everything we do.

About You

To be a great fit for this role, you will:

• Have a background in business operations, or leadership, ideally with experience of school processes, HR, administration and finance
• Be confident, organised and flexible, able to respond to a fast-paced environment
• Have experience of strategic planning, operational delivery and leadership
• Be organised with excellent interpersonal skills and able to relate well to young people

Next Steps

Let’s Connect: We are more than happy to answer any questions you might have about our school or this opportunity. To speak with us, please contact recruitment@rklt.co.uk

Adjustments: Should you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please include these within Part Two of our application form under the section ‘Disability and Accessibility’.

Closing Date: Final closing date is 12 noon, 9th June, however interviews may commence while this advert is open, so we advise you to apply asap to avoid missing out.

Applicant Guidance: Red Kite Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. We are an equal opportunities employer which welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. We are committed to promoting diversity and want a workforce e which reflects the local population of each of our schools. Our recruitment guidelines and privacy notice for applicants can be found HERE.

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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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Oatlands Community Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 352 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oatlands Community Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oatlands-community-junior-school-harrogate

We are part of the Red Kite Learning Trust family of schools. Thank you for visiting our website which provides a window into our busy world of learning: full of discovery, creativity, friendship and fun.

We are a friendly, welcoming school and enjoy the strong relationships we have with parents, relatives, governors and the PTA, who regularly support learning in the classroom, extra-curricular clubs, trips and fundraising events.

Every child is important to us at Oatlands Junior School. We are committed to providing an inclusive, safe, positive and stimulating learning environment, where excellence thrives through high standards of learning, attitudes and behaviour. Our collective aim is to ensure that all children strive to achieve and exceed their goals, whilst nurturing a life-long love of learning.

At Oatlands Juniors, children play an active role in the life of the school, through the many Pupil Voice groups and even running their own extra-curricular clubs. We are proud of our rich, broad and creative curriculum that encourages our children to be inquisitive, enterprising and independent learners.

Oatlands Junior School is surrounded by spacious, beautiful grounds with fantastic outdoor facilities. We have recently expanded into a full three-form entry Junior school, with two new additional classrooms and Arts Studio. Our running track, is popular with all our children, especially the ‘Daily Mile’ challenge. We work closely with our friends in the local community who support various projects in school. The local allotment group work in partnership with our Eco-Committee to maintain and develop our nature area, which includes a sensory and wildlife garden and Reading Retreat. Our sculpture garden, at the entrance to our school, displays works of art throughout the year in collaboration with local artists. We have been recognised for our high quality curriculum provision through the many awards that we have achieved, including: Arts Mark Gold; Sports Games Gold; Eco Schools Bronze; Healthy School Award Bronze and we are working to achieve the Carnegie Mental Health Award.

Our dedicated staff, parents and governors all work together to make Oatlands Junior School a place where we are all ‘Caring About Today, Creating Successful Tomorrows’.

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