Operations Manager
Rochdale Sixth Form College
Rochdale
- Expired
- Salary:
- up to £55,482 (L5-L9) depending upon the applicant’s skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2020, but fully negotiable
- Apply by:
- 28 October 2019
Job overview
Relocation: A relocation allowance may be available where the employee’s new home is reasonably close to the workplace and the former home is not.
Altus Education Partnership, based at Rochdale Sixth Form College, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is looking for an Operations Manager to provide further, strategic operational management support to our Trust as it grows and consolidates.
The Altus Education Partnership is a Multi-Academy Trust established in April 2017 by the governing body of Rochdale Sixth Form College and currently includes the College and the soon to be opened Edgar Wood Academy, Middleton. You will lead and manage the operation of the Trust’s business to ensure that the functions, structures, working practices and contracts for IT Services, Estates, Health & Safety, and Procurement, are fit-for-purpose, best value, and serve the needs of the Trust as it grows and develops. There is no requirement that you be a qualified teacher.
We would like the successful applicant to take up post ideally from January 2020, but we understand that we might need to be flexible regarding this date, to meet your notice requirements.
Altus is currently in conversation with a number of potential local partners about joining the Trust, and we are at the point where we need to develop our capacity to deliver the growth - and integration of that growth -envisaged by that strategy.
We are therefore looking for a well-qualified and skilled Operations Manager, ideally with experience in education, to lead and manage the operation of our organisation. The role will be varied, demanding and rewarding. It is to ensure that IT Services, procurement, estates management, Health and Safety and GDPR compliance are cohesive, well-led, well-managed, and that the business is well-run. You will be the strategic lead for the support staff in those areas, working directly for the Director of Finance and Resources. You will also work with the relevant SLT leads at Rochdale Sixth Form College, Edgar Wood Academy and other schools as they join us.
We offer:
- An exciting post in a dynamic and growing organisation serving local communities
- The opportunity to shape and develop a service that makes a real difference to the lives of children and young people
- The challenge and stimulation of working alongside both dedicated educationalists and professionally highly qualified colleagues
- Experienced and capable support service managers, across the organisation, who will become your team
- Generous annual leave entitlements and pension scheme (details available on request)
For an application pack and to read more about the vacancy, please visit www.opsmanager.co.uk or telephone our advisers ASDTi on 01457 851407 or e-mail them at gm@asdti.com .
They are available during the working day, in the evening or at weekends to answer any questions you have and to help you make your application.
Please note, however, that (in common with most UK schools and Colleges) we do not accept CVs.
The closing date for applications is Monday 28th October 2019 at 11pm.
Interviews will be held week beginning 4th November 2019 or 11th November 2019.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
About Rochdale Sixth Form College
- Rochdale Sixth Form College
- College Road, Rochdale
- Lancashire
- OL12 6HY
- United Kingdom
The College opened in September 2010 as the newest sixth form college in the UK and the first to be built since 2004. With world class facilities, the £26 million College is purpose built and currently accommodates circa. 1650 students
The college has had a transformative impact on young people’s lives and life chances. In 2013 Ofsted graded us ‘outstanding’; at the time we were only the second sixth form college to have gained this accolade. Additionally, we have been the highest performing sixth form college in the Department for Education’s performance tables on five separate occasions, most recently in 2017/18.
The College was set up to address the A Level underachievement in the Borough. Prior to 2010 the A Level performance in Rochdale was poor and had very low progression rates to HE.
The College is committed to inclusive entry requirements and achieves extremely good value added scores as evidenced in Performance Tables and the ALPs scores. The College has excellent retention rates and average attendance is just over 95%.
The curriculum at the College is A Level focused with a small number of students following a mixed programme of a BTEC Sub Diploma alongside one A Level. Students who are yet to achieve a pass at Grade 4 or above in GCSE Maths and English are required to resit until they secure the required grade.
Given the prior attainment level of RSFC students, it is a huge strength of the College that we achieve excellent progression rates to higher education. The whole RSFC project has been a wonderful advert for social mobility. Students apply across the board to Oxford and Cambridge, Russell Group and the wider group of HE providers.
The College works with students not applying to HE to ensure they have the opportunity to progress on to appropriate apprenticeships and employment opportunities.
RSFC has very strong working relationships with local schools and the local GFE provider. The College Principal/CEO sits on the Pioneers Trust with local secondary headteachers and the College is also a key member of NWSFC (North West Sixth Form College group); SFCA (Sixth Form College Association) and the AOC (Association of Colleges).
The College estate is in outstanding condition and there has been significant investment in capital works to create an outstanding physical learning environment and student facilities. The financial health of the College is rated as outstanding.
We have a clear mission and central purpose to help students realise their academic potential. The College believes that every young person has it within themselves to succeed and will devote itself to improving student achievement. The College is an inclusive Sixth Form College. The students at RSFC study in a highly positive environment, and staff continuously build self-confidence and self-belief in students. Aspirations for the trajectory of improvement are high and the College focuses upon creating happy and successful students. The College has high expectations of students and staff. The drive is for the quality of teaching to be outstanding day in and day out, together with a support and guidance structure that powerfully focuses upon the individual student.
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