School Business Manager

We are looking to appoint a 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 and budgetary planning and control
  
  experience of human resources management
• an excellent working knowledge of ICT systems; including FMS and preferably a knowledge of SIMS 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.