School Business Manager
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE5 1NE |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | af9c7de1-f880-4a3f-83ef-d568dc6d036d |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Strategic Planning
• To ensure the school makes the best possible use of resources through effective strategic planning.
Finance
• To ensure compliance with the Academy Trust Handbook in schools.
• To prepare budgets, prepare reports for local governing bodies, as well as track performance to budget during trust monthly business reviews.
• Prepare appraisals for delegated projects and to plan for the future development of the school in line with the school development plan ensuring best value at all times.
• Bid for sponsorship funding by developing contacts and raising the school profile.
• Plan and maintain budgets and oversee spend and hold budget holders to account.
Human Resources
• To manage some support staff where applicable and liaise with Human Resources when queries arise.
• To arrange cover for teaching staff during planned/unplanned absences.
• To develop and maintain an accurate Single Central Record.
Estate Management
• Respond to security alerts along with the Head Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher.
• To manage facilities services such as the meal service, cleaning and caretaking.
• Take an active role in liaising with architects and contractors during any building projects to ensure that the project runs to plan and making sure that contract files are maintained.
• Ensure any snagging problems are followed up to the schools satisfaction.
• Manage any lettings of the school premises to outside agencies.
Whole School Administration
• To manage the administrative function including the admin and ICT facilities, school reception, reprographics, records and telephones.
• Marketing and communication responsibilities
• To help promote the school to parents, partners and the local community.
• To liaise with local businesses for fund raising, arranging vocational experience and joint projects.
General
• To promote and implement the School’s Equality Policy in all aspects of employment and service delivery.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people s/he is responsible for or comes into contact with
• To assist in maintaining a healthy, safe and secure environment and to act in accordance with the school’s policies and procedures
Person Specification
Ideal Candidate Skills:
• Resilient Attitude: Bring your expertise in Finance, Procurement, Estates Management, or Human Resources to the forefront, showcasing your robust and adaptable mindset.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Shine in a flexible, agile work environment with strong decision-making skills and a collaborative ethos that drives success.
• Tech-Savvy: Utilise your Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel, to streamline and enhance our administrative processes.
• Educational Experience: While previous experience in an educational environment is preferred, it's not essential—your ability to adapt and thrive is what counts.
• Qualified Professional: Preferably, to hold a relevant business qualification and be able to demonstrate your commitment to continuous professional development.
• Financial Software Expertise: Experience with IRIS financial software is a plus, highlighting your capability to manage complex financial systems.
• Managing Innovative Projects: Engage in ground breaking projects that shape the future of our schools, contributing to your professional growth and making a real impact.
• Networking: Build valuable connections with educational professionals and local businesses, expanding your professional network and opening doors to new opportunities.
What the school offers its staff
As a school we firmly believe in our vision: to be the best we can be. We continually strive to meet the needs of individuals and personalise learning so no child is left behind and all children feel part of our learning community. Our highly trained staff prioritise the well-being of the children as we know how important this is to ensure they meet their full potential. We want all of our children to ‘reach for the stars through learning’ and know they are ‘special and unique’.
We are a two form entry school from Nursery to Year 6 and are fortunate enough to have a beautiful building with large playgrounds, a field and a garden.
Our curriculum has been carefully written and planned by our curriculum experts to meet the needs of our children; use our local area and to be stimulating and exciting so the childrengain knowledge and make progress so they can become'subject experts'.
Our values are intertwined throughout the curriculum and the day to day life of the school so we can not only focus on the basic skills childrenneed to be successful, but also focus on the whole child so they grow into kind, empathetic young people who are able to make a positive contribution to the wider world.
We are ambitious, enthusiastic and passionate about what we aim to achieve here at Westerhope Primary.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Strategic Planning
• To ensure the school makes the best possible use of resources through effective strategic planning.
Finance
• To ensure compliance with the Academy Trust Handbook in schools.
• To prepare budgets, prepare reports for local governing bodies, as well as track performance to budget during trust monthly business reviews.
• Prepare appraisals for delegated projects and to plan for the future development of the school in line with the school development plan ensuring best value at all times.
• Bid for sponsorship funding by developing contacts and raising the school profile.
• Plan and maintain budgets and oversee spend and hold budget holders to account.
Human Resources
• To manage some support staff where applicable and liaise with Human Resources when queries arise.
• To arrange cover for teaching staff during planned/unplanned absences.
• To develop and maintain an accurate Single Central Record.
Estate Management
• Respond to security alerts along with the Head Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher.
• To manage facilities services such as the meal service, cleaning and caretaking.
• Take an active role in liaising with architects and contractors during any building projects to ensure that the project runs to plan and making sure that contract files are maintained.
• Ensure any snagging problems are followed up to the schools satisfaction.
• Manage any lettings of the school premises to outside agencies.
Whole School Administration
• To manage the administrative function including the admin and ICT facilities, school reception, reprographics, records and telephones.
• Marketing and communication responsibilities
• To help promote the school to parents, partners and the local community.
• To liaise with local businesses for fund raising, arranging vocational experience and joint projects.
General
• To promote and implement the School’s Equality Policy in all aspects of employment and service delivery.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people s/he is responsible for or comes into contact with
• To assist in maintaining a healthy, safe and secure environment and to act in accordance with the school’s policies and procedures
Person Specification
Ideal Candidate Skills:
• Resilient Attitude: Bring your expertise in Finance, Procurement, Estates Management, or Human Resources to the forefront, showcasing your robust and adaptable mindset.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Shine in a flexible, agile work environment with strong decision-making skills and a collaborative ethos that drives success.
• Tech-Savvy: Utilise your Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel, to streamline and enhance our administrative processes.
• Educational Experience: While previous experience in an educational environment is preferred, it's not essential—your ability to adapt and thrive is what counts.
• Qualified Professional: Preferably, to hold a relevant business qualification and be able to demonstrate your commitment to continuous professional development.
• Financial Software Expertise: Experience with IRIS financial software is a plus, highlighting your capability to manage complex financial systems.
• Managing Innovative Projects: Engage in ground breaking projects that shape the future of our schools, contributing to your professional growth and making a real impact.
• Networking: Build valuable connections with educational professionals and local businesses, expanding your professional network and opening doors to new opportunities.
What the school offers its staff
As a school we firmly believe in our vision: to be the best we can be. We continually strive to meet the needs of individuals and personalise learning so no child is left behind and all children feel part of our learning community. Our highly trained staff prioritise the well-being of the children as we know how important this is to ensure they meet their full potential. We want all of our children to ‘reach for the stars through learning’ and know they are ‘special and unique’.
We are a two form entry school from Nursery to Year 6 and are fortunate enough to have a beautiful building with large playgrounds, a field and a garden.
Our curriculum has been carefully written and planned by our curriculum experts to meet the needs of our children; use our local area and to be stimulating and exciting so the childrengain knowledge and make progress so they can become'subject experts'.
Our values are intertwined throughout the curriculum and the day to day life of the school so we can not only focus on the basic skills childrenneed to be successful, but also focus on the whole child so they grow into kind, empathetic young people who are able to make a positive contribution to the wider world.
We are ambitious, enthusiastic and passionate about what we aim to achieve here at Westerhope Primary.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.