Operations Manager

One World Education is seeking an Operations Manager to join our team!

Position Summary:

The Operations Manager is responsible for the overall operation of the company and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the online school.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

▪ establish and sustain the school and Governing Body’s ethos and strategic direction in partnership with those responsible for governance and through consultation with the school community.

▪ create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life.

▪ uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life.

▪ promote positive and respectful relationships across the school community and a safe, orderly and inclusive environment.

▪ ensure a culture of high staff professionalism.

▪ Establish and sustain high-quality, expert teaching across all subjects and phases, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn.

▪ Ensure teaching is underpinned by high levels of subject expertise and approaches which respect the distinct nature of subject disciplines or specialist domains.

▪ Ensure effective use is made of formative assessment.

▪ Ensure a broad, structured and coherent curriculum entitlement which sets out the knowledge, skills and values that will be taught.

▪ Ensure valid, reliable and proportionate approaches are used when assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.

▪ Adapt teaching and curriculum approaches in line with research and best practice.

▪ Establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils

▪ Ensure high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy

▪ Implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour

▪ Ensure that adults within the school model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen

▪ Ensure the school holds ambitious expectations for all pupils with additional and special educational needs and disabilities.

▪ Establish and sustain culture and practices that enable pupils to access the curriculum and learn effectively.

▪ Ensure the school works effectively in partnership with parents, carers and professionals, to identify the additional needs and special educational needs and disabilities of pupils, providing support and adaptation where appropriate.

▪ Ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties about the SEND code of practice.

▪ Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of Governing Body priorities, whole-school improvement, team and individual needs.

▪ Prioritise the professional development of staff, ensuring effective planning, delivery and evaluation which is consistent with the approaches laid out in the standard for teachers’ professional development.

▪ Ensure that professional development opportunities draw on expert provision from beyond the school, as well as within it, including from within the Governing Body, nationally recognised career and professional frameworks and programmes to build capacity and support succession planning.

▪ Ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding as part of the duty of care.

▪ Ensure staff are deployed and managed well with due attention paid to workload.

▪ Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies that enable the school to operate effectively and efficiently.

▪ Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing, and mitigating risk.

▪ Work closely with the CEO and other Governing Body staff to make use of effective and proportional processes of evaluation to identify and analyse complex or persistent problems and barriers which limit school effectiveness and identify priority areas for improvement.

▪ Develop appropriate evidence-informed strategies for improvement as part of well targeted plans which are realistic, timely, appropriately sequenced and suited to the school’s context.

▪ Ensure careful and effective implementation of improvement strategies, which lead to sustained school improvement over time.

▪ Forge constructive relationships beyond the school and Governing Body, working in partnership with parents, carers, and the local authorities and schools.

▪ Commit their school to work successfully with other schools in the Governing Body and organisations in a climate of mutual challenge and support.

▪ Establish and maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues across other public services to improve educational outcomes for all pupils.

▪ Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding their obligation to give account and accept responsibility.

▪ Establish and sustain professional working relationship with those responsible for governance.

▪ Ensure that staff know and understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account.

▪ Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role preferred.
• QTS / QTLS

Job Types: Full-time, Freelance

Salary: £41,964.00-£45,453.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

Experience:

• Operations management (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• QTS/QTLS (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: Online Education Operations Manager
Expected start date: 31/08/2023