Operations Business Partner

This is an external vacancy and is not employment with East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

£33,831 - £38,466 per year (term time pro rata)

An Operations Business Partner at Ebor Academy Trust is a pivotal link between the strategic centre and our schools. Supporting Head Teachers with the business and adminstrative aspects of running an efficient school while providing guidance and leadership to locally based admin teams, this role is an opportunity for an experienced business manager to enable our schools to deliver the best possible education to our children.

With an eye for efficiency and continuous improvement, you will enable schools to meet their own objectives as part of the Trust's aim to be one school, many sites. Sharing best practice while ensuring compliance and commitment to the Trust's ways of working, you will coach staff and school

leaders to meet financial targets, report accurate information and ensure that policy is followed; all with an eye on Ebor's values of Excellence, Belonging, Opportunity and Respect.

Purpose of the Role

• Link schools to central teams:
  Connects academies directly to central services like HR, finance, estates, IT, and marketing.
• Streamline operations:
  Implements and standardises trust-wide operational policies across all assigned schools.
• Lead projects:
  Manages local school projects and supports the onboarding of new academies into the trust.
• Develop staff:
  Coaches and mentors school-based support teams to build operational capacity.

Key Working Structure

• Hybrid model:
  Splitting time between remote home working and daily site visits to cluster schools.
• Central collaboration:
  Spending at least one day per week at the central trust headquarters for team alignment.

This role will be based on the East Coast of Yorkshire, providing a business support service to 3 or 4 of our schools in and around the Scarborough area. Your travel will be fully expensed in this locally mobile role, with weekly travel to one of our central operating hubs in York or Hull.

Working with us

Ebor Academy Trust is a values driven organisation of over 1000 staff working in 25 schools across Yorkshire and the Humber.

With staff engagement score of over 90% our staff tell us that Ebor Academy Trust is truly a great place to work and our low staff turnover shows that people see their time with us as a long term investment.

Don't just take our word for it, here are a few quotes from our staff:

'I love the idea of helping children and nurturing them and seeing them develop and this is just the best place to be. I've worked here for nearly 20 years and the children are absolutely amazing. They're so polite. They make every day different and new and exciting.'

'The staff are great and we all look after each other.'

'I'm proud to say I work here.'

'Seeing those moments when they just get something, when that new piece of learning really clicks and their eyes light up and you get that moment of awe and wonder on their face.'

'Strong, clear and dedicated leadership. Leaders who lead by example and who care about every single stakeholder.'

'Fair, honest and transparent employer. Huge amounts of exciting opportunities for people to develop their skill sets and career pathways (CPD is a big priority).'

We offer generous terms and conditions of employment, if you would like to know more about the benefits of working at Ebor Academy Trust please see the attached document 'The benefit of working at Ebor Academy Trust.'

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We follow safer recruitment practices and appointments are subject to, amongst other things, an enhanced DBS check. Please see the Trust’s Recruitment Policy for further information.

Some travel across East Riding of Yorkshire may be required, applicants must be able to transport themselves.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check.

Operations Business Partner