Operations Associate

About the role

In this role, you will be at the heart of an organisation delivering tangible change. You will work directly with a close-knit operations team as well as with colleagues across all our teams.

The variety of the role and the deep experience of those you’ll work with every day make it an incredible learning opportunity. We will invest in your development and support you to build the skills and career that excite you. At the same time, you’ll benefit from the satisfaction of rapidly delivering a wide range of objectives to a high quality.

This role would suit someone who is highly organised, enjoys building and improving systems and processes and ultimately loves getting things done.

We have big ambitions and your scope to grow, learn and achieve matches that. If you want to benefit from working with an inspiring team, with huge potential for learning, growth and development, we want to hear from you.

What it’s like working at Skills Builder Partnership

Joining Skills Builder is not like working anywhere else. Our team consistently say they have never worked anywhere as collaborative, supportive or mission oriented. We combine the fun and dynamism of a start-up, the professional development opportunities of a corporate, the innovation of a digital native and the social impact focus of a charity.

We are serious about delivering social mobility through our vision that one day everyone builds the essential skills to succeed. That means we are ambitious and set high standards for ourselves. We are reflective, inclusive and supportive.

In practice this means that everyone makes time for others in the team, we get stuck in to solve problems together, we have regular employee surveys where leadership talk through every single suggestion and the whole team is involved in developing our strategy.

Key responsibilities

(1) Finance:

• Running our finance processes, including supplier forms, purchase orders and invoicing Running cash reconciliation in Xero  

(2) People & HR:

• Support management with recruiting and training our exceptional team Ensure effective onboarding and offboarding of the team  

(3) Tech & IT: 

• Be responsible for our hardware, including setting up laptops and coordinating fixes Deliver induction training on the basics of our tech setup (Google Workspace etc) Assist the team with account access  

(4) Operations:

• Working with the team on new initiatives to improve our systems, processes and operations Working with senior leadership to organise key events and manage scheduling

Benefits:

Salary: £32,000 - £35,000

Start Date: Flexible

Working hours: Flexible

Travel & Team days: we get together in person in London 6 times a year for strategy, fun and food. If based remotely, you also have a “flexi” day each year, so you can expense travel to meet with others in your team.

Holidays: 25 days per year, plus bank holidays. This increases by one day each year up to 30 days and you can buy back up to 5 days to a total of 30.

Location: UK fully remote or London Hybrid (with 1+ days in the office per week)

Application Process

Applications should be made via our online form - on completion of the online application please also send your CV by email.

The application deadline is 09.00 on 29^th July, with interviews on weeks commencing 5^th or 12^th August.