School Business Manager
| Posting date: | 20 December 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | East Midlands Councils/East Midlands Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3423 |
Summary
Whittington Green School Governors are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, competent and dedicated School Business Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team.
As School Business Manager, you will hold a key post of responsibility within the school. Reporting directly to the Headteacher, you will be responsible for ensuring non-teaching aspects of the school run efficiently and effectively. You will also have line-management responsibility for the administration and site staff.
Your core responsibilities will be:
• to lead with the Headteacher on finance, human resources, health and safety, premises management, whole-school administration, and marketing
• the promotion of the school aims, objectives and ethos
• assisting in the monitoring and evaluation of performance and processes
• ensuring specific day-to-day functions of the school run smoothly
• establishing good working relationships with all stakeholders and external agencies
• sound experience of financial management, budgetary planning and control and Health and Safety
• an excellent working knowledge of ICT systems; including FMS and preferably a knowledge of Arbor software
This role is integral to our school and the right candidate will have experience in a similar role and ideally have attained a School Business Management or accountancy qualification.
The role requires you to be a highly organised, motivated and enthusiastic individual with a keen interest in making a difference to the school’s outcomes. You should be able to use your initiative, have a relentless drive for excellence, work flexibly, with integrity and under pressure. Attention to detail and being process driven will be essential to being successful in this role.
If you are motivated, ambitious and you believe that you meet the criteria for this role we would like to hear from you. You must understand and be able to articulate the importance the part the Business Manager has to play in the success of the school.
Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact Catherine Swain (Headteacher’s PA) on 01246 450825 or email csw@wgs.derbyshire.sch.uk to arrange an appointment.
Whittington Green School:
- welcomes applications regardless of age, gender or religion
- is committed to the protection and safety of its students
- undertakes enhanced DBS checks on all applicants
- only accepts applications submitted on approved application forms
Provisional Interview Date: Week commencing 13 January 2025