School Business Manager

3 weeks ago


Derby, United Kingdom Reed Full time

Reed are working an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities based in Derby.

The group are opening a brand-new Primary and Secondary Special Education school which will open its doors in early 2025. The school is based in Derby with a proposed capacity of 72 students aged between 5-19. It is anticipated that the student cohort will have a primary diagnosis of ASC/ADHD.

We are currently looking for a School Business Manager to start in September 2024 to support with the planning, creation, registration, opening and running of the new provision. The building will be completely redeveloped, and work is already underway to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of being an amazing learning environment. The facilities will allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

The Role

The Role of the School Business Manager is an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for the leadership, management supervision and development of the support services within the school, ensuring an efficient, safe, healthy, clean, and comfortable environment is provided within budget and in line with strategic aims and objectives.

There is an expectation that you will act with a high degree of autonomy including responsibility and accountability for managing delegated budgets and resources. The role also involves creating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development plans aimed at bringing about continual improvement in the areas of responsibility.

As this is a new school in the development stage, you will be instrumental in the recruitment and development of an effective team to secure the success of what we anticipate being an outstanding school.

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

  • A Management or Professional qualification in related area to role e.g. Management Diploma or Finance qualification is desirable.
  • knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations and standards for education
  • Knowledge of current inspection frameworks used by regulatory and statutory bodies.
  • Safeguarding and legislative procedures when working with children and young people
  • Management and knowledge of EBITDA, financial systems, processes and budget preparation Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
  • Ability to form & promote positive relationships with and between young people, employees, parents and representatives of outside agencies
  • Ability to define high, appropriate and attainable standards, and achieve them
  • Effective team leadership and management
  • Ability to assess situations accurately, resolve problems effectively and take decisions

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.



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