Operations Manager

Reports to: Operations Director 

Start Date: August 2018 

Location: London

Salary: £25,000 to £30,000 depending on experience and qualifications (+11% employer pension contribution)

One of the biggest problems facing secondary schools in the UK is the shortage of maths, science and language teachers. At the same time, there is a colossal waste of talent as people who are reaching the end of one successful career want to do something meaningful.

Now Teach was set up in 2016 to encourage people who have already had one successful career to retrain as teachers. These people will start a movement of senior professionals re-deploying their skills in the classroom and teaching the children who need it most. Now Teach exists to find them and help them become formidable teachers.

Now Teach was co-founded by Lucy Kellaway, a lifelong columnist on the FT who in September started training to teach in the inaugural Now Teach cohort and Katie Waldegrave, a Teach Firster who founded the literacy charity First Story. They founded Now Teach with a mission to serve challenged schools, and address educational inequality, by recruiting and retaining exceptional late stage career changers into critical teaching vacancies. 

Since launching in November 2016, over 2,500 people have expressed interest in retraining as teachers after successful careers doing something else. Our first cohort of 47 started training to teach in September 2017 and we are making great progress on recruiting our next 80 to start in September 2018, across London and Hastings. 

Our ambitions are big. In a few years, we aim to grow from a London-based programme in to a national organisation. We want to start a movement that will make it seem perfectly normal when someone who has had one career announces that they want to teach in a challenging comprehensive.

The Operations Manager role is a critical position in our organisation. The individual will be responsible for managing core operational functions and play a key part of Now Teach’s transition to an independent charity – currently targeted for early 2019. They will have the opportunity to work closely with Ark UK Programmes and other teams in the Ark network

Our ideal candidate will be:

• Detail-oriented and well organised
• A team player who can fit into our growing but small team
• Have experience of project management, establishing operational systems and processes, budget management, policy management and general team administration. 
• Take a hands-on flexible approach and thrive in a fast-paced environment 

For a full description and to apply, visit our recruitment portal at https://goo.gl/eccLD6 . Applications will be reviews on a rolling basis with a final deadline of 06 July 2018. If you would like to have an informal and confidential discussion about the role please contact Libby Dangoor, libby.dangoor1@nowteach.org.uk.

Now Teach is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process and all successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.