Learners’ Trust is a ambitious, dynamic multi-academy trust supporting schools across Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. We believe every child deserves the opportunity to thrive, and we empower them with the skills, confidence, and knowledge to make real choices as they grow.

Our vision is built on collaboration, leadership, and equity: developing outstanding leaders, delivering excellent teaching, and ensuring every learner receives the support they need. Our culture values each school’s identity, teamwork across the Trust, and a relentless focus on ensuring no child or family is left behind.

This is a pivotal operational support role at the heart of Learners’ Trust, providing high-quality administrative, organisational and project coordination support to the Trust Operations Manager and Chief Operations Officer.

You will play a key part in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of Trust operations, supporting policy compliance, operational processes, internal communications and staff engagement initiatives. Working across multiple workstreams, you will help drive efficiency, maintain strong governance practices and contribute to the successful delivery of operational projects that support the Trust’s strategic objectives.

In this role, you will:

• Provide comprehensive administrative and organisational support to the Trust Operations Manager and COO, including managing operational inboxes and responding to queries.
• Coordinate business-as-usual operational activity, maintaining accurate records and producing documentation in line with Trust procedures.
• Support the review, version control, approval and communication of operational policies to ensure compliance with Trust and statutory requirements.
• Organise and coordinate internal meetings, preparing agendas and papers, and tracking actions to completion.
• Assist in the planning, coordination and monitoring of operational projects, liaising with internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Support staff engagement and wellbeing initiatives, including communications, events, feedback collection and evaluation.

What we can offer you in return:

• A welcoming, diverse and supportive community that values people and their contributions
• Hybrid working arrangements, with a blended approach of office and home working
• A generous benefits package including 28 days’ annual leave rising to 33 days after 5 years’ continuous service plus statutory public holidays
• Access to an excellent pension scheme
• Access to a wide range of staff benefits such as health and wellbeing support and staff discounts at major retailers
• Investment in your development, with opportunities to grow your career and make a meaningful impact.

Our trust is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive workplace and we welcome applications from all communities.

This is a full time, permanent position, working 37 hours per week.

To learn more and apply for this post, please download our Recruitment pack here: https://thelearnerstrust.org/vacancies/

Context

The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.

We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.

Why do we exist? 

Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future

• Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
• Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
• Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect

How will we act?

We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;

 Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)

Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)

Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)

Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)

Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)

Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)

Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)

What is our strategy?

We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;

·         Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools

·        Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity

·        Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children

·         Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation  

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person.

 Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.