Director of Operations and Compliance
Malvern St James
Great Malvern, Worcestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 23 October 2017
Job overview
Malvern St James is a leading boarding and day school for girls between the ages of 4 and 18. The school is located in the heart of Malvern in Worcestershire, only two hours from London and one hour from Birmingham and has excellent transport links, with Great Malvern station situated just opposite the main school building. The MSJ bus service covers five counties to pick up and return girls each day.
We are now seeking a Director of Operations and Compliance of the highest calibre to help us implement our ambitious vision and strategy.
You will be a member of the Senior Management Team. You and your team will develop and drive the infrastructure and operations strategy required to support the School by the effective management and delivery of all non-financial support services to all parts of the School. You will ensure that facilities, administration and infrastructure projects are delivered in an efficient and cost-effective manner, providing a high quality of service to all members of the community.
To succeed you will have proven experience of compliance and of managing complex organisational matters. You will demonstrate the ability to lead and develop a diverse team.
You may be an existing Bursar looking for a challenge in a larger organisation, or someone with facilities or compliance experience looking for promotion. However, you must be able to plan and deliver projects and programmes, prioritise tasks, and allocate finite resources. Compliance Inspector status will be an advantage.
You will be a decision taker who can communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders. You will be highly IT literate with a proven capability to contribute strategically to the wider development of an organisation whilst retaining a strong grasp of operational detail is essential.
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About Malvern St James
Malvern St James Girls’ School is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of the Malvern Hills and is a leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3-18. Our values today reflect those of our founding schools, set up in the nineteenth century by pioneering proponents of women’s education. In this inspirational setting, MSJ continues a fine heritage of academic rigour, outstanding enrichment and leadership opportunities, and preparing girls for rewarding careers and lives beyond school.
MSJ is an exceptional place for learning and living. Every girl matters to us, and our size (at around 450 pupils) means that we can offer an individually tailored education. Our focus is on inspiring teaching to deliver excellent academic results; and equally on encouraging intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, considered risk-taking and collaboration that universities and employers will value. Our enrichment programme is as long as it is broad, and has something to fire the imagination of every individual: clubs for budding engineers and scientists, extra-curricular languages, drama, music, Leiths, journalism, photography, sport of every kind, Young Enterprise, Debating and Model United Nations … to name but a few.
Life at MSJ is underpinned by first class pastoral support which makes us a happy and friendly community, relaxed yet purposeful, with a real sense of family. When girls reach the end of their time here, they are thoroughly prepared to embrace life’s challenges. The diverse list of graduate courses at the most prestigious institutions and the competitive career paths that girls go on to is testament to MSJ’s culture of ambition and achievement. Our alumnae network helps our community to forge valuable links for life.
As a school we have a roughly equal number of day girls and boarders, allowing us to offer the best of both worlds and a very flexible boarding programme. We have full, weekly and flexi boarding options, designed to meet the needs of modern family lives. Our position in the town of Great Malvern, situated in the heart of England, means we benefit from excellent transport links and cultural opportunities all around the UK, including a direct train service from London.
Our girls work hard but have fun on the way, making lifelong friends and memories. Please do come and see for yourselves what makes MSJ tick and meet our happy, poised and confident girls and young women, who are free to be themselves and find the things which will instigate a life-long passion for learning.
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