School Operations Manager

School Operations ManagerRequired from September 2026 Full time Term time plus one week Permanent Grade F points 20-24 (£32,597-£35,412 FTE per annum) £28,756-£31,239 Actual Salary per annum Cantrell Primary and Nursery School is seeking to appoint an Operations Manager to manage the school office and provide HR, payroll and other administrative, financial, organisational processes within the school. Working closely with Head Teacher and the Transform Trust central team to ensure school finance and HR processes are completed in an accurate and timely manner. You will contribute to the planning, development and monitoring of support services and/or management of support staff, including delegation of relevant activities. The role will also involve supporting the Senior Management Team by enabling effective strategic decision making. We pride ourselves on our caring, nurturing approach and going the ‘extra-mile’ to help children and their families. We are a community school, with several of the staff living in the neighbourhood and some even having attended here as pupils! We warmly welcome applications from motivated individuals to join our dedicated and highly effective team from Cantrell Primary and Nursery School. The role includes contribution to the planning, development and monitoring of support services and management of some support staff, including delegation of relevant activities. You will: have general office or similar experience, ideally in an Educational setting experience of managing people be able to carry out both routine and more difficult financial calculations have the ability to interpret data / information and present this to senior staff in an appropriate, understandable fashion be accurate and take pride in your work work well as part of a team be literate and numerate; have excellent communication skills with children and adults In return we offer: A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards