School Business Manager – Grade 12
School Business Manager – Grade 12
Start date 1st September 2024
“Ashton Community Science College continues to be a good school” (Ofsted 2023)
The Governing Body are seeking to appoint a motivated, experienced and exceptional business manager with a track record of successful practice in the education sector. The successful candidate will:
· Be an outstanding existing or aspiring business manager with a passion and commitment for finance, human resources and staff well-being
· Lead a team of highly able professionals, setting a personal example
of excellence as the norm.
· Provide inspirational and forward-thinking leadership
· take a lead role in improving the impact of the delegation of resources, both HR and financial
· Be ambitious and support the school’s strategies to raise attainment and achieve positive outcomes for all students
The vacancy has arisen due to the early retirement of our long serving, talented and much respected business manager. The successful applicant will lead the development of the wide variety of functions of school business manager contained within the job description. The postholder will also have line management responsibility of a number of postholders within the business function of the school and shared responsibility for wider areas of senior strategic leadership. The Senior Leadership Team is a collaborative and experienced team committed to further developing our currently good school.
Ashton Community Science College is an 11-16 mixed school with 870 pupils on roll and was rated as Good by Ofsted in the last inspection in 2023. The school has 2 specially resourced educational facilities in addition to mainstream provision and is the contract holder for the Science Learning Partnership Lancashire and Cumbria.
Our goal is to be an outstanding High School and we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, well qualified leader to join us in our journey.
ACSC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to provide a disclosure from Disclosure Barring Service before any appointment is confirmed.
Application documents are available to download in the vacancies section of the school website http://www.ashtoncsc.lancs.sch.uk/job-vacancies
Applications should be submitted electronically by 9am on Thursday 2nd May to Glenda Harrison Headteacher’s PA: gharrison@ashtoncsc.com. Interviews to be held on the 14&15th of May 2024.
A covering letter no more than 2 sides A4 font size 12 Century Gothic will be required in addition to the completed application form. Candidates should ensure all elements of the application form are completed and there are no unexplained gaps in employment history.
Please note we regret we are unable to contact individual applicants who may be unsuccessful at this time.
Documents
Job Description
Person Specification
Application Form
Salary: Grade 12
Closing Date: 2 May 2024, 8.00am
