HR and Operations Manager
East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
London
- £40,098 - £45,578 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- July 2022
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2022
Job overview
The role of HR and Operations Manager is critical to the success of the smooth and healthy running of the School and the wider Trust. It is a leadership role (and will join the school’s Senior Leadership Team meetings) as it is responsible for a range of HR, operational and administrative functions. To be successful the individual will need to lead delivery through people that they manage, others across the school and contractors in addition to personally delivering in some key areas of the role. They will also contribute to and take shared responsibility for the cross-Trust systems and processes that are in place in Day One Trust schools. They will need to understand the school’s strategy and priorities and articulate it to their own staff, so that those staff all understand and take ownership of their contribution to these.
Working with the school’s leaders
The HR and Operations Manager will be a partner to the Principal and the senior leadership team, ensuring that the school’s operational and administrative functions are aligned with the school’s objectives. They will also act as a critical friend to the Principal and senior leaders, ensuring that the design of educational programmes and initiatives is such that they draw effectively on the school’s operational and administrative teams. In areas where the HR and Operations Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with legislation or with Trust or School policies s/he will work with the Principal and senior leaders to ensure that collective responsibility is taken for this.
The HR and Operations Manager would line manage:
- The Receptionist
- The Catering Lead
- The Premises Manager
Working with the Trust central team and the wider DOT.biz team
The HR and Operations Manager will work with their counterparts in other DOT schools, the Finance Business partner in each school and with the Trust Central team (this will be called the DOT. Biz team) to ensure that a consistent and high-quality approach is taken to the delivery of administrative and operational services across the Trust. Standardisation (‘we all do this exactly the same way’) or alignment (‘we take a similar approach tailored to each school’s needs’) create opportunities to improve the quality of services by increasing efficiency, reducing workload, comparing approaches and benchmarking performance. The HR and Operations Manager will:
- contribute proactively to the design and specification of Trust-wide systems and policies, to ensure that they meet the needs of all Trust schools.
- take on responsibility for developing some of these themselves on behalf of the whole Trust e.g. if they have a particular relevant expertise or interest
- ensure that agreed cross-Trust systems and policies are being implemented in their school
- monitor the effectiveness of school and Trust-wide systems and policies and suggest improvements, constructively challenging when needed.
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About East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
- East London Arts & Music Academy (ELAM)
- Maltings Close, Bromley by Bow
- London
- E3 3TA
- United Kingdom
ELAM is a world-class 16-19 Academy which opened in September 2014. ELAM offers young people everything that they will need to lead successful lives within the music, games design and film and television sectors. We are based in Bromley-by-Bow, have Trainees from every borough in London and we are diverse in every way.
Our vision is that all children in the uk should see themselves reflected in uk culture. To do this we see our role as recruiting talented young creatives who, once they succeed, would diversify and ensure the creative industries are more representative.
We believe this can be achieved by increasing the access routes into those industries for talented young people. However, unlike many other industries, it is not always clear how to get into these jobs and therefore there is often a lack of diversity within these sectors. Increasing the access routes to everyone will therefore increase the quality of talent and the continued growth of the sector long term.
Principal
Matt Sheldon
We don't do this alone
We have partnered with sector-leading organisations including YouTube, Universal Music, The BPI, Grain Media and Creative Assembly to devise a curriculum that will develop the future leaders of these sectors by meeting the relevant knowledge, skills and cultural demands. The involvement of these organisations sends a powerful message to young people that these careers are for them, they belong, that they can (and will) succeed.
Who is involved?
ELAM has been founded by a group of leading figures from industry and education. Will Kennard, Musician and one half of production duo Chase & Status, is a founder and governor. Alongside Will, the Governing body has senior executives from across the creative industries and education. We have support from a wide-range of partners from the music, film and games industries.
We work hard, we achieve high and we produce amazing creative products.
Our YouTube shows the range of talent that our Trainees have and develop - see ELAM’s vision in action here (our YouTube) and here (our most recent end of year showcasing website).
In addition, all trainees at ELAM undertake a study of Maths and English as we know written and spoken communication, problem solving, data analysis and research are the key traits of the leaders in these fields.
Ofsted report
East London Arts and Music has been judged outstanding in all categories when inspected.
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