School Operations Manager

Saracens High School, London, NW9 4AS

12 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  18 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 June 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: £38,883.00 - £44,453.00 Annually (FTE)

School Operations Manager job summary

The main purpose of the role is to ensure the effective administration and operation of the school and that all work is completed to the highest standard. The role involves working closely with families, pupils, visitors, and various school teams with regard to school events.

Your key responsibilities as School Operations Manager are to:

• Establish an ethos amongst your team for ensuring all work is completed to the highest standard and any issues addressed in a timely manner
• Support your direct reports to lead their teams to facilitate the effective and efficient running of the building and services
• Ensure all maintenance activities are scheduled as appropriate, properly undertaken and documented, with any issues being promptly addressed
• Ensure that the school’s day-to-day operations, including school events, are appropriately organised with the support of the EA to the Principal and Admin team.
• Manage the work of contractors as appropriate, including vetting and induction
• Prioritise workload to ensure that deadlines are met
• Ensure all tasks are carried out with due regard to Health and Safety
• Undertake appropriate professional development, including adhering to the principle of performance management

For more details, please see the attached job description.

Vision

Our vision is to enrich lives through education by developing lifelong learners who will thrive in life beyond school.

To realise our vision, we embrace and live our core Saracens Values of Discipline, Honesty, Hard Work and Humility by:

• Ensuring our schools are orderly, safe, and joyful places where our pupils are governed and guided in their behaviour by fair and sensible principles.
• Empowering our staff to embrace the latest thinking and use teaching styles that reflect the culture of success and commitment to character development, with achievement celebrated as warmly as attainment.
• Retaining a focus on supporting those communities most in need, striving for equality of opportunity for all. Build community hubs around our schools through mutually beneficial partnerships with local businesses, organisations, and individuals.
• Insisting on an honest appraisal of the efforts and attitude of staff in their work and pupils in all areas of their education and school life.
• Creating an environment where all members of the school community work incredibly hard to fulfill the potential of each individual and strive for continuous improvement in everything that we do.
• Placing equal emphasis on character education and enrichment as academic attainment, so that pupils are prepared for life beyond school.
• Creating a quality of life for all staff and pupils that is both enjoyable and impactful, to make memories they take pride in and cherish for the rest of their lives.
• Utilising the networks of the broader Saracens family to strengthen our school communities.
• Achieving our outcomes sustainably, through strong financial governance and protecting and nurturing our surrounding environment.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution at 23.7%
• Professional development opportunities
• 33 days of paid holiday
• Family days and wellbeing leave
• Access to secure parking
• Electric vehicle charging point
• Eyecare vouchers
• Gym onsite

We serve a wonderfully diverse community in the Colindale area of North London, which also has exceptional transport links with the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline trains (Mill Hill Broadway), and easy access to main commute routes (M1, A1, A41).

Saracens Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.

We will interview candidates at the earliest opportunity following their application and reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found before the closing date.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Trustees and Governors recognise their responsibility under section 175 of the Education Act 2002 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. We are committed to working with other organisations and agencies to ensure good arrangements within the school to identify assess and support those children who are suffering harm or at risk of harm.
The principles on which our policies are based apply to all trustees, governors, staff and volunteers working in or with the school.

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 Saracens High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 985 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Saracens High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/saracens-high-school

Saracens High School is a new secondary school which opened in September 2018. This year we have our first cohort of Year 11s sitting exams in the summer and we open our Sixth Form in September 2023.



The school is located in the Colindale area of North London with easy access to the Northern Line (Colindale) and mainline rail (Mill Hill Broadway) as well as the M1 and A1.

We will moved into our brand new state of the art building in the autumn of 2021.

Learn more about the school at our website www.saracenshigh.org or here https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/saracens-high-school-1168079

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