Job Description

Remarkable future starts here.

Nursery - Nara Charlbury by Storal

Location - Forest Road, Charlbury, Chipping Norton OX7 3HH

Hours - 30 per week, Monday to Friday 8am till 2pm All year round

Hourly Rate - £13.65 per hour

Office Manager | Grow Your Career in Early Years Leadership

Are you an ambitious administrator or office professional looking for a key role where your work truly matters? If you thrive on variety, love building relationships, and want to develop your career within a vibrant early years environment, this is your opportunity to step into a pivotal leadership-support role.

What This Role Offers You

• A Direct Track for Career Growth: You won’t just be managing an office—you’ll work hand-in-hand with our Nursery Manager and Central Support Finance Team. You'll gain high-level operational experience across finance, compliance, ratio management, and setting leadership.
• A Role Where You Make an Impact: Every system you streamline and every family you welcome directly contributes to creating a safe, nurturing, and high-quality environment for young children to thrive.
• Dynamic & Diverse Workdays: From front-of-house family engagement to financial administration and Early Years Funding management, no two days are the same. You'll expand your skill set across multiple operational areas.
• A Supportive, Collaborative Culture: You will be part of a positive team that values your proactive ideas, supports your professional development, and celebrates your successes.

How You’ll Shape Your Day & Build Your Skills

As our Office Manager, you are the heart of the setting—the welcoming face for families and the operational anchor for our team. In this role, you will:

• Lead the Front-of-House Experience: Welcome current and prospective families, host engaging nursery tours, handle parent enquiries, and build warm, lasting relationships across our community.
• Master Early Years Finance & Funding: Partner with our Central Finance Team to manage invoicing, payment queries, and debt administration, while taking ownership of Early Years Funding claims and accurate record-keeping.
• Drive Operational & Compliance Excellence: Support the Nursery Manager with staff administration, ratio alignment, and essential compliance procedures.
• Champion Systems & IT: Utilize and sharpen your IT and organizational skills by managing multi-platform administrative systems that keep the nursery running smoothly.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

We are looking for someone organized, warm, and ambitious. You’ll be a great fit if you have:

• Relevant Administrative Experience: Background in office management, financial admin, school, or early years settings.
• Financial & Funding Confidence: Familiarity with invoicing, financial administration, or Early Years Funding claims (or the confidence to learn quickly).
• Strong IT & Organizational Aptitude: Comfortable managing multiple priorities, learning new software systems, and keeping meticulous records.
• People Skills & Positive Energy: Outstanding communication, proactive problem-solving, and a warm, professional customer service approach.
• Compliance Awareness: A solid understanding of safeguarding principles and the importance of compliance within an early years setting.

Ready to advance your administrative career while making a real difference for children and families? Apply today—we’d love to hear from you!

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS. 

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