Office Manager
The Oxford Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6JZ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
9 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 October 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
- £31,537.00 - £34,434.00 Annually (Actual) Full-Time 52 Weeks
Office Manager job summary
About You:
Are you an experienced administrator looking to take the next step into office management, or an established office manager ready for a new challenge?
We are seeking an organised, proactive, and approachable professional who takes pride in keeping things running smoothly. You will either have experience of managing or working within a busy office, supporting teams, ideally in an educational or public-sector setting. You’ll be comfortable juggling multiple priorities, solving problems as they arise, and ensuring that staff, students, and visitors all receive a warm and efficient service.
The Oxford Academy is an important part of our local community. We actively encourage individuals from our area to join our team. This could be parents of students at our school or people living in our neighbourhood. We believe that being part of the community is not just about where we are located, but about fostering connections, understanding, and mutual support. By hiring local talent, we ensure that our values align with the needs and aspirations of the people we serve. When you join us, you are not just becoming part of our school family, you are becoming part of something that cares for and is very much a part of the local community.
The Role:
We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Office Manager to join our diverse and welcoming school community. You’ll be part of a friendly and experienced team who will support you to grow and develop in the role, whatever your background or level of experience.
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity where your organisational skills and attention to detail will make a real difference every day. You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of our school, supporting staff, students, and visitors, and helping to create a safe, efficient, and positive environment for everyone. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to help this role fit around your life.
At The Oxford Academy, we offer pride, aspiration and opportunity to every member of our community. We are committed to ensuring that our students and staff are highly successful, through positive and sustainable improvements in our school.
Do you want to work in a school that:
Is friendly and community centred, where staff genuinely feel part of a team. 'The school is mindful of staff workload and well-being. It provides high-quality training and support. Staff recognise this and they feel valued and respected' (Ofsted 2023).
Places staff well-being at the heart of everything we do.
Has a supportive culture, where staff are encouraged to grow and learn new skills. This is very much a focus for the River Learning Trust which encourages life-long learning.
Prioritises high quality bespoke CPLD as well as opportunities for collaboration and support across a successful and highly respected multi academy trust.
Has an ‘aspirational and appropriate curriculum for all’ (Ofsted 2023).
Has students who behave well in lessons (Ofsted 2023) so teachers can teach and students can learn.
Benefits:
We have a wide range of benefits for employees which include:
Health & Wellbeing
Free annual Flu Vaccines
Discounted Gym Memberships (onsite gym)
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
24-hour access to free counselling helpline for family, debt advice
Flexible working solutions
Reduced teaching time
Financial
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), with employee contributions of 19.2%
Eligible for a Blue Light Card - Hundreds of offers/discounts on local and national stores
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Progression
Opportunities for CPLD and access to apprenticeships
Developmental performance management conversations
Apprenticeship opportunities for ‘on the job training’
Investment in your career, internal and external talent solutions
We encourage interested candidates to visit the school before application. To arrange a visit please contact Reception (enquires@theoxfordacademy.org).
For more information about The Oxford Academy please visit the school's website.
Our School and our Commitment to the Local Community:
The school has a strong track record of offering great care to the families and students we serve. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a team with a passion for supporting our hardest to reach students. The ability to develop excellent relationships with the students is vital.
This is a very exciting time to join our school. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional with the expertise and dedication to live out our values of ‘commitment to others, commitment to learning’. These commitments are central to our school, demonstrated by the strong, warm relationships, and a strong culture of learning for both students and staff.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The River Learning Trust and The Oxford Academy are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Oxford Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1113 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Oxford Academy website
The Oxford Academy is a warm, friendly and vibrant school that is built on an ethos of high expectations for all and a belief that every child will be successful - academically, personally and as a lifelong contributor to the wider world.
Our inclusive Christian values underpin all that we do. Staff at our school have a firm belief in the power of education to shape children’s lives for the better. The Oxford Academy is centred on a culture of excellence where we respect each other, are self-motivated, determined, responsible, have a thirst for learning, and a strong sense of pride in belonging to the Academy.
We are committed to providing educational opportunities of the highest quality for all our students and we believe in educating the whole child. We aim to deliver a broad education that is ambitious, varied and stimulating in a caring environment that creates well-rounded individuals who excel and benefit from our approaches to teaching and learning. At the Oxford Academy, we are inclusive and a school for all in our community. We work to meet the needs of our students - whatever it takes.
The Oxford Academy is driven by raising aspirations, expectations and achievements for all. We are very much outward facing and seek to engage with local, national and international partners, in order to build an ambitious network of support for the children in our care. Our fundamental aim is to create vibrant and dynamic learning experiences, so every child has the opportunity to become an ambitious, confident learner.
Our website will enable you to discover more about the Academy; I hope that you will quickly gain a sense of the rich potential of our students and staff, their achievements and the wider life of our school.
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