Operations Manager

Posted on 08/05/2025

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02 Jun 2025
London
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£49,765 - £53,818 per year
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Full-Time
Operations
Ark Pioneer Academy
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About The Role
Interviews will take place week beginning 9th June 2025

The role

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly organised Operations Manager with fantastic attention to detail to join our school in September 2025 on a full time, permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity which will report into the principal. You will join a truly exceptional senior team and provide strategic leadership on HR, office management, site and contractor management and projects. If you are an ambitious and driven individual with a passion for high quality systems and processes, this is the job for you.

This is a varied and exciting role where your contribution will greatly impact the operational success of our school. You will lead our planned capital projects as well as offering integral operations expertise and support across the school. The role operates on a 52 weeks per year contract, with 25 days annual leave per annum.

What’s special about this role?

This newly created role falls within the school leadership team, providing day to day and strategic oversight and leadership for Operations. Key aspects of the role include, but are not limited to, HR, building operations, health and safety, capital projects, IT, community usage, catering and cleaning contract administration and operational support across the school.

Who are we looking for?

Across school life, we embed high aspirations and a growth mindset in all of our children. We believe that every single child who joins us has the potential to be knowledgeable, articulate and successful. It’s important this resonates with all candidates. Equally important is subject expertise and knowledge, transferable skills and experience.
Benefits
- Bespoke professional development to all team members
- Opportunity to plan and moderate with colleagues in the same discipline, beyond our own school gates.
- Breadth of opportunities - many of our team have taken on leadership roles progressing from one of our sister schools.
- Benefits beyond the classroom including everything from shopping discounts to a supportive and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark at arkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/
About Us
We are non-denominational, mixed gender school based in a brand-new building with top class facilities. We serve a wonderfully diverse community and two fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding.

We’re led by our values - Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team truly unite behind our vision. Curriculum is incredibly important to us and we’ve planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline.

We timetable collaborative planning and love to engage in ‘productive struggle’. Every team member is supported with coaching and tailored professional development, whatever stage they are at in their career. Our team say: ‘All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in’.

See our school in action here and hear what our staff have to say about why they love working at our school here.

Visit arkpioneer.org/jobs to learn more about us.

Diversity and inclusion:

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement:

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.