Operations Manager
Ark Greenwich Free School
Greenwich, London, South East
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark Support Scale, Band 11 (£40,630 - £47,566)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 8th February 2021
- Apply by:
- 25 January 2021
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly organised Operations Manager with fantastic attention to detail for our wonderful school. This is an exciting opportunity to join a truly exceptional senior team and provide strategic leadership on HR, site, health and safety 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.
Advert closes: 09:00, 25th January 2021
Shortlist confirmed/communicated: 26th January 2021
Interview dates: 28-29th January 2021
To view our school video please click here
Ark Greenwich
Ark Greenwich is a new, ambitious school model based on what we know excellent schools do. We have created a highly respectful and disciplined environment where our staff and pupils can fulfil their potential. Our aim is to consistently be one of the highest performing schools in the country.
Joining the school team is a superb opportunity for an ambitious, proactive and systems focused Operations Manager who wants to make a lasting difference to the communities they serve.
Ark Greenwich exists to empower young people, regardless of socio-economic background, to grow and be successful. This is an ambitious and forward-thinking school that encourages innovation and values its staff. We are proud of our highly respectful and disciplined community and of the outstanding academic outcomes achieved by our pupils. Expectations for all members of our community are unashamedly sky high. We work tirelessly to impact the lives of the young people we serve.
How is Ark Greenwich different?
• We are part of the Ark family of schools and benefit accordingly from outstanding networking opportunities and first-class CPD.
• Staff wellbeing is one of our main priorities. We provide breakfast for staff each morning and have a 6pm/weekend work-related communication curfew to ensure our staff can maintain a work/life balance. We do not do knee jerk reactions, fads or last-minute deadlines. Our systems and processes for communication, marking and feedback and assessment are streamlined and the approaches we take are research led and based on the needs of our local context.
• This is a small school model (600 pupils aged 11-16) because we believe that our close-knit community provides the optimum conditions for success.
• Behaviour for learning is exceptional so our teachers can focus their time on the things that matter – planning and delivering brilliant lessons for our pupils. We have applied to become a national behaviour hub school.
If you are ready to be part of a highly ambitious and hardworking Senior Leadership team and support our school in maintaining the very highest standards across all areas of Operations, then you will find this job extremely rewarding.
Alignment with the school’s vision, values and approach to education is essential.
The Role
This role falls within the school leadership team, providing day to day and strategic operational oversight and leadership for Operations. Key aspects of the role include, but are not limited to, HR, Health and Safety, ICT, capital projects, community usage, catering, administration and site operations support across the school. This 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 HR expertise and support across the school. If you have an HR background and Operational experience and are looking for a new challenge to join an established and successful school, then this is the role for you.
About Ark Schools
Ark is a network of high-achieving, non-selective schools and one of the country’s top-performing academy groups. We run 38 academies in London, Birmingham, Hastings, London and Portsmouth educating more than 26,000 pupils. 83% of Ark schools are now rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.
Our aim is to create outstanding schools that give every pupil, regardless of their background, the opportunity to go to university or pursue the career of their choice.
As part of your application you must send a video recording of yourself lasting no more than 2 minutes answering the following question:
How will your skills and experience positively impact the students at our school?
Please email your video to recruitment@arkgreenwich.org
To find out more about Ark Greenwich and watch our promotional video, please visit our website via www.arkgreenwichfreeschool.org
If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact Victoria Hemmings 02083193692 or email vhemmings@arkgreenwich.org.
Ark value diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting child welfare. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and any other relevant employment checks.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Ark Greenwich Free School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date at our discretion, early application is advised.
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About Ark Greenwich Free School
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- Ark Greenwich Free School
- Adair House, 403 Shooters Hill Road, Woolwich
- London
- SE18 4LH
- United Kingdom
We opened in September 2012 as a new Free School - a four-form entry, state-funded, mixed, non-denominational, 11-18 comprehensive school for the children of Greenwich. We are now full at 11-16. The School is extremely popular and is 6 times oversubscribed and staff are hard-working and committed to the school’s vision.
We have some very clear ‘givens’ and below is set out what we think are the most important features of our model. The school's ethos runs in line with our core values of Ambition, Growth, Fellowship & Scholarship. Underpinning this is a clear focus on Behaviour and we have exceptionally high expectations of our students.
We invest heavily in the curriculum and believe that the design and implementation of the curriculum is at the heart of school life. It creates an atmosphere for learning and sets the tone and philosophy for teachers.
Alongside being a school that values the importance of subject disciplines we also invest in high-quality weekly training and have access to world-class development opportunities through our partnerships with a wide range of schools, universities and sector-leading organisations. We are an accredited CPD provider through the Teacher Development Trust, many of our departments have won external awards in History and Computer Science, and we work closely with well-regarded curriculum providers. This means that we can help all staff at the school grow and develop.
We run a compulsory enrichment programme every Wednesday afternoon to ensure all our pupils receive a more holistic education. All of the AGFS staff commit to delivering elements of this. We also run a series of 12 ‘Drop Down Days’ throughout the year where the timetable is collapsed, enabling all pupils to undertake day-long programmes and activities – for example, university visits and trips to museums and theatres - as well as providing space for more intensive subject-led learning and extended academic projects.
AGFS has been described by The Economist as providing “plenty of hope for British education” and was selected by the Evening Standard as one of five “new model schools” in London.
Additionally we have received the following comments:
“Fantastic and extraordinary…Quiet lessons, happy students, nuclear focus, masses of support for students” Tom Bennett, founder of Research Ed and behaviour adviser to the Department for Education
“Amongst the highest performing schools in London” Evening Standard
“It was a real pleasure to visit AGFS. You are absolutely focusing on the right things and should be extremely proud of your school” Rebecca Boomer-Clark (Former Regional Schools Commissioner)
'Every child deserves the best possible start in life - and nothing is more important to them than a good education. The teachers and staff at Greenwich Free School are passionate about the importance of education, and they combine their passion with great professionalism and skill. They will do their very best for your child.'
Lord Adonis, former Schools Minister
'GFS is one of the country's most impressive and forward-thinking Free Schools, attracting considerable national attention and setting an exceptionally high quality bar for future Free Schools. I'm confident that its superb team will provide an outstanding education for the children of Greenwich.'
Rachel Wolf, Director, New Schools' Network
We warmly invite you to come and visit GFS and see for yourself all that we are doing to provide outstanding teaching and pastoral care to all our pupils.
Life in the Greenwich Free School is hard work, but it is also truly engaging, exciting and fun. It is a school of which our pupils are proud – and we are proud of each and every one of them.
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