Job Description

We are seeking to appoint a School Business Manager to come and join our friendly staff and lead our office team so that our finance, pupil and personnel administration are carried out efficiently and effectively. Key aspects of this role include:

1. Working with Senior Leaders, particularly the Headteacher of both schools.
2. Preparing and running budgets, including school catering trading accounts.
3. Ensuring all finance and personnel compliance is met.
4. Securing effective processing and recording of personnel matters such as DBS checks, training and contracts.
5. Enabling parents and pupils to be well supported through the way that the office team work.
6. Leading and managing the other 4 members of the office team.

Full details of the role are in the job description.

The successful candidate will receive support from the headteacher and from colleagues in the trust. This support includes all training and professional development necessary. If you come and join our team you will be joining one that works hard for the good of all our children and one that enjoys cake, chocolates and 'chippy Fridays'!
This vacancy has arisen through our current School Business Manager taking a promotion to join our trust's central team.
This post is for a September 2020 start. There is some flexibility with hours and weeks to be worked so that the equivalent of the following is fulfilled:
• 37 hours a week, with 5 to 5.6 weeks holiday, depending on length of service and bank holidays.
• 8:00 - 16:00 Monday-Thursday
• 8:00 - 15:30 Friday
The exact working pattern will be agreed on appointment, with the successful candidate.

The salary for this post is Scale 9 (band 5) point 29 - 33 £32,.09 - £35,934

Information about the School

We are a primary school in a rural location just twenty minutes from Colchester and 10 mins from Clacton-on Sea. We are an academy with the Vines School Trust and so have the the support of this trust and the Diocese.