School Business Manager

We are seeking a dedicated School Business Manager to join our team and play a pivotal role in continuing our school's success. As the leader of our administrative operations, you will oversee financial management, human resources, and facilities, ensuring our school runs smoothly and efficiently. If you are a proactive problem-solver with excellent organisational skills and a commitment to supporting educational excellence, we want to hear from you!

The Role:

• To be responsible for the management, planning, development, and implementation of all support services within a secondary school, including in-house services
• Be a strategic member of the Senior Leadership Team.
• Where appropriate: manage school support staff; liaise between managers/teaching staff and school support staff;
• Take a lead role in the development and maintenance of manual and computerised records/management information systems
• Ensure that all administrative activities are carried out in accordance with school policy and procedures
• Responsible for the selection & management of resources, including management of the school budget & regular audit of resources under the financial handbook requirements

What are the job requirements?

• Recognised management/business degree or equivalent related professional qualification.
• School Business Manager specific qualification i.e. DSBM, CSBM, ADSBM or MSc School Business Management
• Experience in managing budgets, financial reporting, procurement and fixed assets.
• Experience in managing Health & Safety.
• Experience in managing change projects.
• Good Knowledge of financial standards, and financial procedures and regulations in schools.

About Atherton High School:

‘Our curriculum ambition at Atherton High School is to make learning irresistible for all'. We have designed a challenging and ambitious curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for all our students to aspire and achieve.

Our core values that drive our curriculum are:

• Aspiration for all to improve life chances for every student.
• Excellence in learning through an ambitious knowledge and vocabulary rich curriculum for all.
• Character and personal development to equip all of our students to succeed in life.

At Atherton High School what is taught is coherently planned and sequenced to equip students to succeed in life. Our curriculum supports students from all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged, so students can access a high-quality, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our school community believes strongly in providing disadvantaged pupils with a curriculum that enables them to reach the academic standards of their non-disadvantaged peers. Our goal is to bring our young people into the big conversations of subject disciplines, to bring depth to our curriculum, so they can understand the world around them.

About the Education Partnership Trust (EPT):

EPT was established in 2012 as a multi-academy trust and is an approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities. We benefit from our diverse and unique range of schools which include secondary mainstream, alternative provision and special and have a proven track record of sustained improvement. Our schools are united by a drive to improve opportunities and outcomes for children and young people within a collaborative learning culture.

Our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances. As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed. 

“If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust.”

Our extensive range of rewards and benefits include:

• Healthcare cash back plan provided free by the trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
• Employee Assistance Programme including, counselling, CBT, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to government pension schemes.
• Free parking.
• Electric Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice).
• Training, mentoring and progression opportunities including our Emerging Leaders programmes.
• Trust wide intranet to share knowledge and resources. 

Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com

We warmly welcome an informal visit or a conversation prior to application. Please contact the School Business Manager – rwilson@athertonhigh.com.

Please be advised, as part of due diligence checks, online searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates.