Operations Manager

Greengate Lane Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S35 3GT

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2025

• Closing date

  9 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,572.00 - £32,115.00 Annually (FTE) SCP 16 - 21 - term time plus two weeks - actual salary £26,825 - £29,132 per year

Operations Manager job summary

Greengate Lane Academy have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our motivated, supportive team. We provide a happy, secure and energetic community in which our pupils and staff can flourish.

We are very proud of our children and their achievements which are based on aspiration and high expectations among all of the staff, children and parents who work together to provide the best possible experiences and education.

This role will support the invaluable work delivered by the team at Greengate Lane Academy and is directly linked to the priorities of the school for the children and families we serve. It is a crucial role in providing high quality business support administration to ensure the smooth running of the school.

Our ideal candidate:

• Has experience of providing administrative support in a busy office environment and line managing a team, with excellent IT skills, with the confidence to use Microsoft programmes such as Excel and learn new school systems and processes.

• Passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs and is driven to have a positive impact on the lives of children.

• Can work autonomously, prioritise conflicting demands whilst managing a broad and demanding workload.

• Is highly organised, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders effectively and professionally.

• Is proactive and flexible and approaches challenges pragmatically to ensure the best outcome for children, families, and the wider academy team.

• Can pay attention to detail and utilise systems and data to find the best way to successfully support projects and tasks, whilst working in conjunction with the Senior Leaders of the school and Astrea Regional Operations Manager.

 

In return we offer:

• Excellent CPD opportunities

• A strong caring ethos and supportive team

• The opportunity to make a real difference

• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme and Employee Assistant Programme

• The opportunity to work a term time plus two days per year contract

• An induction package

• A school focused wellbeing approach which prioritizes staff wellbeing

• Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team.

Interested in applying? 

Please see the attached Applicant Brief for more information, and don't hesitate to get in touch to arrange a visit or to find out more. We welcome visits to the school to experience the atmosphere, ethos and approach and to have an opportunity to meet the children and staff who make Greengate Lane a great place to be.  

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS check.

If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer.  This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary.  This can be discussed in more detail at interview.

The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.

Applying for the job

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

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Greengate Lane Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 221 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Greengate Lane Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greengate-lane-academy (opens in new tab)

We are very proud of our school, and I am sure you will agree that we have much to be proud of with the excellent work that is undertaken here. We have superb school grounds and facilities for our children and local community.

To apply please see the Admissions Information in the menu bar above.

We are delighted to now be a part of the Astrea Academy Trust. The Astrea vision enables individual academies to flourish with real autonomy, whilst also ensuring a strong ethos of support and collaboration.

If you would like to visit the school, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will make an appointment for you. Telephone 0114 284 8322. We look forward to meeting you!

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