Cathedral Primary School
School Business Manager

Required from 1st September 2024
30 hours per week (pattern to be agreed), term time plus two weeks

Applications are invited from charismatic, enthusiastic and suitably experienced individuals, for this varied, rewarding and demanding post. The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional organisation skills, will be confident in financial processes, with a high level of numeracy and literacy. Whilst experience within the education sector is desirable, candidates from other sectors with appropriate transferable skills are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Head Teacher wishes to appoint:

• A confident business leader with strong communication, numeracy and literacy skills;
• A candidate with the ability to self-manage a busy workload;
• A suitably qualified or experienced finance practitioner, able to manage the school budget with support from the central Trust team;
• A professional leader, with the confidence and experience to advise on matters pertaining to HR, staff wellbeing and recruitment;
• An individual with strong organisational skills and the ability to bring together the busy team of office support staff to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the school;
• A candidate with experience in leading on compliance and health and safety, or a strong aptitude and willingness to learn;
• An ambitious leader who is committed to the professional development of themselves and others, and who comes with ideas on how to improve our processes and embed our culture of inclusion across the school at every level.

Salary

CST Payscale: Points 38 to 41
Gross full time equivalent range: £41,357 - £44,653
Actual part time term-time salary (0.6862FTE): £28,377 - £30,639

Application Deadline

Applications should be received as soon as possible and by midnight on Sunday 7th July 2024 at the latest. 

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16th July 2024.

Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Please note that all posts at the School are subject to initial and periodic checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service as the school takes every measure possible to ensure the safeguarding of its students.