Chief Operating Officer

Emmanuel Schools Foundation, Blyth, NE24 2SY

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  10 April 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  12 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £100,000.00 - £135,000.00 Annually (FTE) Competitive, negotiable in the advertised range. Access to Local Government Pension Scheme. Private Health Care scheme. Generous annual leave allowance.

Chief Operating Officer job summary

Our appointment of Chief Operating Officer represents a significant, strategic investment in the ongoing evolution of Emmanuel Schools Foundation’s (ESF) central function.

A key executive leader, responsible for ensuring that the Trust’s operational domains—People, Estates, Digital, Corporate Services, and Commercial—are designed, equipped, and ready to deliver ESF’s educational priorities and growth ambitions of scaling up to 7 to 15 schools.

This role is about engineering the conditions for excellence, building a scalable operating model, and ensuring every aspect of ESF’s infrastructure, systems, and services strengthens teaching, learning, inclusion, and impact.

The COO will be a key architect of efficient and naturally collaborative operations and ensuring that all flourish within their team and across the Trust and will be aligned with the inclusive Christian ethos of the Trust.

We seek an experienced operational leader with proven expertise in complex transformation programmes, professional services management, and systems-level problem-solving. You will be a collaborative strategic thinker who balances operational efficiency with our educational mission.

If enabling schools to act as a catalyst for social change, improving outcomes for students and the wider community, resonates with you we'd love to receive an application.

Join us, and in addition to working with highly committed and hard-working colleagues you will have access to:

Defined benefit pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub

Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace

Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)

Cycle to work scheme

Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Please see the Candidate Information pack for more details.

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.

Applying for the job

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Emmanuel Schools Foundation

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/emmanuel-schools-foundation

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