Deputy Operations Manager (Early Years)

Coin Street Nursery has a fantastic opportunity for a Deputy Operations Manager, to join our friendly and committed team, where you’ll will be part of the first-class nursery management and ideally be familiar with working in a similar setting, though this is not essential.

You will be working in a busy nursery office and will provide proactive management of our occupancy across our childcare provision, monitor income and expenditure to ensure we deliver against our agreed budgets. You will be the first point of contact for families interested in our provision and work with colleagues to ensure onboarding of new families is seamless.

The Nursery team works in collaboration with the Family & Children’s Centre, this role is crucial in providing organisational support and line managing two Data Outreach Officers. 

We are looking for a deputy manager who can demonstrate the following:
•    Proven administration and customer service experience
•    Financially literate, with an ability to understand, monitor and meet budgets
•    And ideally experience in managing and allocating resources (for example staffing rotas, budget allocations, stock control. 

What We Do

We provide the opportunities and spaces for people to lead their own change.

Our activities are wide and far reaching. From giving families and children the best start in life through our childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality live, work and play spaces on land which we own.

We promote enterprise, creativity and lifelong learning whether that’s through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise or delivering programmes and activities.  We provide housing that supports our community; we champion co-operative housing and influence local and national housing policy.

From sports and dance to healthy eating and gardening, we offer a range of facilities and activities accessible to everyone to support health and wellbeing in our community.

Extras

In return, we can offer you:
•    35 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time staff (increases with length of service)
•    8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
•    Health and wellbeing support, including online mental health therapy sessions
•    Free gym membership at Colombo, annual flu jabs
•    Commitment to training and development

Contract

Full time, 35 hours per week, permanent

Shift rota basis working either 7:45am- 3:45pm, 8:30am-4:30pm, 9am – 5pm and 10am-6pm

Salary

£38,300 per annum

Closing Date

Please send your application by midnight on 16 February 2025. 

Successful candidates will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.