Operations Manager
Highgate Primary Academy, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 9ASDeadline is today
Closing date
24 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 November 2024
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
- £32,654.00 - £37,308.00 Annually (FTE) Term time contract - actual salary £28,715 - £32,809 per annum
Operations Manager job summary
Highgate Primary Academy have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our motivated, supportive team. We are looking for somebody with commitment, energy and expertise to work closely with staff to ensure that our children achieve their very best.
Highgate is a very warm and welcoming place to work. Staff are friendly, hardworking and work as one big team; our turnover is low. We are looking for someone who will contribute to this strong working ethos and continue to build on our efficiency of operations in school.
This role will support the invaluable work delivered by the team at Highgate Primary 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 Highgate 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.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early - please apply as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.
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.
About Highgate Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 349 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Highgate Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
We have high hopes for our pupils, and this is expressed in our vision of Making a Difference; To ourselves; To each other; To the World We Live In.
It’s important to us that children enjoy the time they spend here; but we also want them to achieve the very best they can. Our aim is to provide a learning experience that will help all children make rapid progress, whatever their starting point. We want to provide our children with the best possible start in life and help them acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding and ambition to prepare them for life beyond the classroom.
It’s vital that we work closely with parents and carers, and mutual trust and understanding are central to our shared responsibility for the education of your child. We encourage you to take an active interest in your child’s education and in school life; your contribution is valued and important. Our school is bursting with potential, and we are eager to capitalise on this energy – working closely with our partners, our community, carers and parents.
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.
We want our academy to be a fun and exciting place where children thrive upon success.
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