Thank you for your interest in our Business Manager vacancy. I do hope that the information within this pack is sufficient.

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1 Business Manager Dear Sir / Madam, Thank you for your interest in our Business Manager vacancy. I do hope that the information within this pack is sufficient. The Market Bosworth School is very proud of its students and staff. We have excellent academic standards and work hard to create a safe and enjoyable learning environment for all. In both May 2012 and July 2009 we were rated as an Outstanding school by Ofsted. This is a very exciting time for the school, having recently received our first set of GCSE results, where over 82% of students gained GCSEs at grade A* to C in both English and Maths. The role of Business Manager is crucial to our school. As an independent Academy, Finance is one of the key drivers to our success. The strategic direction, personnel support, and organisational structures that are put in place by the successful candidate will be essential to our outstanding school and make a real difference to the lives of the children that attend our school. We would expect the successful candidate to have experience of Business Management, in either a school or commercial setting, but will consider all applications. The ability and experience to lead a team successfully is essential. We are ideally placed for commuting from a wide area, being situated about twenty minutes from Leicester in the rural and picturesque village of Market Bosworth. Whilst the majority of our staff live within Leicestershire, we have a number who commute daily from Warwickshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire. The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Monday 9 th January; interviews will take place on Friday 13 th and Monday 16 th January. We welcome and encourage visitors to the school. Please feel free to contact Katie Constable on for an informal tour, or more information should you wish. I would be grateful if applications could be addressed to me. In addition to the application form, please include a covering letter that outlines why you would make a good candidate for this role. Applications via are also welcome at office@tmbs.leics.sch.uk Thank you Stuart Wilson Principal Thank you for your application; I do appreciate the time and effort taken.

2 Pack Contents: Background to Post Business Manager School Overview Job Description Personal Specification We are seeking to employ an outstanding Business Manager to be part of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and play a pivotal role in our school. This post has arisen due to the promotion of the current post holder, who is due to leave us in January The role of Business Manager at the Market Bosworth is exciting and fundamental to our future success. The successful candidate will join our SLT and take on a wide range of responsibilities that influence every aspect of school success. This includes either direct or indirect line management of: Human Resources Financial Resource Management Academy / Company Procedures Administration and Office Management Facility Management / Catering Health & Safety As an outstanding school we are well placed to move forward with a strong financial and performance base, addressing government initiatives such as Multi Academy Trusts and Fairer Funding. The next five years will undoubtedly see enormous changes within the educational landscape. The successful candidate will be required to embrace that change and make decisions that ultimately improve the education and wider lives of the children within our care. We welcome and encourage visitors to the school, and we would be delighted to talk further informally about this exciting post. To arrange a visit, please feel free to contact Katie Constable on Students are enthusiastic about their learning and their behaviour is outstanding. Their engagement is high in lessons and they show courtesy and respect to each other. They feel outstandingly safe in the academy. Ofsted 2012 The academy promotes the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of students outstandingly well. The academy is a highly cohesive community. A range of trips and events supplement cultural development in art, music and drama and add to the awareness of other cultures. Rich opportunities are taken within the curriculum to broaden students horizons and these are supplemented by wide extra-curricular opportunities. Ofsted 2012

3 School Overview The Market Bosworth School is a fantastic place for students to learn and an inspirational school to work within. In the last four years we have received two outstanding OFSTED reports. Our most recent Outstanding report was in May 2012, during a rigorous inspection, where we achieved the top grade in all aspects of the report. In 2014, the School converted from an to school. Our first set of GCSE results in 2016 were incredibly strong, with the school achieving well above local and national results in each one of the 5 Government performance measures. Whilst our academic results have always been fantastic, it is our commitment to the wider curriculum and personal development that we are most proud of. Currently, we have 816 students aged The schools intake is made up of almost 30 feeder primary schools. Seven of which are officially our catchment area; the remainder are schools that send from 1 to 50 students each year. The villages that feed into the school are mixed in nature; from larger villages such as Newbold Verdon and Barlestone, to smaller communities such as Congerstone and Sheepy Magna. The school has broad aims and values which emphasize the following: To provide an environment where students can enjoy learning in safety and with confidence. To promote the values of tolerance, sensitivity and respect. To provide a broad, balanced, coherent, relevant and differentiated curriculum to all students. To allow all students to realise their full potential, meeting their lifelong needs. To encourage students to value their own achievements and those of others. To ensure all members of our school community take full responsibility for their own actions. To provide a caring, disciplined, enjoyable and stimulating environment where effort, achievement and success are recognised and rewarded. To ensure all members of our school community make a full contribution to the life of the school. To encourage and support the professional development of all staff. To work in partnership with parents, primary schools and the wider community. The school has a Vision, Mission Statement and set of Strategic Aims that support these values. They form the basis of our annual School Improvement Plan and the SEF where necessary. We place great emphasis upon developing the whole person through the breadth, balance, and range of our curricular and extracurricular experiences. The school is highly valued by the local community and its popularity is reflected in the high proportion of students who attend from outside the school's catchment area. One parent, typifying the views of many others who responded to the parental questionnaire, wrote, The school has children at the heart of all it does. Ofsted 2009

4 Job description Business Manager Job Title: Pay: Business Manager Pay grade 12 to13 ( 33,997 to 42,790 FTE) Working hours will be confirmed with the successful applicant. Generally, they would be: 37 hours per week, Term time plus 4 weeks during the School Holidays. This equates to 91.74% FTE. Due to the nature of the post, flexibility regarding working hours is essential. Responsible To: Principal JOB PURPOSE 1. The School Business Manager is the school s leading support staff professional and works as part of the Senior Team to assist the Head Teacher in his/her duty to ensure that the school meets its educational aims. 2. The School Business Manager is responsible for providing professional leadership and management of school support staff in partnership with teaching staff, to enhance their effectiveness in order to achieve improved standards of learning and achievement in the school. 3. The School Business Manager promotes the highest standards of business ethos within the administrative function of the school and strategically ensures the most effective use of resources in support of the school s learning objectives. 4. The School Business Manager is responsible for the Financial Resource Management/Administration Management/Management Information and ICT/Human Resource Management/Facility & Property Management/ Health & Safety Management of the School. LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY 1. Attend Senior Management/Leadership Team, full Governing Body and appropriate Governors subcommittee meetings 2. Negotiate and influence strategic decision making within the school s Senior Management/Leadership Team 3. In the absence of the Head Teacher, take delegated responsibility for Financial and other decisions 4. Plan and manage change in accordance with the school development/strategic plan. 5. To lead and manage all school support staff FINANCIAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 1. Evaluate information and consult with the Senior Team and Governors to prepare a realistic and balanced budget for school activity 2. Submit the proposed budget to the Head Teacher and Governors for approval and assist the overall financial planning process 3. Discuss, negotiate and agree the final budget 4. Use the agreed budget to actively monitor and control performance to achieve value for money 5. Identify and inform the Head Teacher and Governors of the causes of significant variance and take prompt corrective action 6. Propose revisions to the budget if necessary, in response to significant or unforeseen developments 7. Provide ongoing budgetary information to relevant people

5 8. Advise the Head Teacher and Governors if fraudulent activities are suspected or uncovered 9. Maintain a strategic financial plan that will indicate the trends and requirements of the school development plan and will forecast future year budgets 10. Identify additional finance required to fund the school s proposed activities 11. Seek and make use of specialist financial expertise 12. Maximise income through lettings and other activities 13. Select types of investments which are appropriate for the school, taking account of risks, views of stakeholders and identify possible and suitable providers in order to maximise return. 14. Present timely and fully costed proposals, recommendations or bids 15. Put formal finance agreements in place with suitable providers for agreed amounts, at agreed times and appropriate agreed costs and repayment schedules 16. Monitor the effectiveness and implementation of agreements ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT 1. Manage the whole school administrative function and lead all support staff. 2. Design and maintain administrative systems that deliver outcomes based on the school s aims and goals 3. Manage systems and link processes that interact across the school to form complete systems 4. Define responsibilities, information and support for staff and other stakeholders 5. Develop process measures that are affordable and that will enable value for money decisions for those managing resources 6. Establish and use effective methods to review and improve administrative systems 7. Use data analysis, evaluation and reporting systems to maximum effect by ensuring systems are streamlined to maximise efficiency and avoid duplication 8. Benchmark systems and information to assess trends and make appropriate recommendations 9. Prepare information for publications and returns for the DfES, LEA and other agencies and stakeholders within statutory guidelines. MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 1. Consider approaches for existing use and future plans to introduce or discard technology in the school 2. Consult with relevant people and other parties to introduce new technology or improve existing technology for different purposes 3. Ensure that the school has a strategy for using technology aligned to the overall vision and plans for the school ensuring value for money 4. Communicate the strategy and relevant policies, including Data Protection for use of technology across the school 5. Establish systems to monitor and report on the performance of technology within the school 6. Ensure resources, support and training are provided to enable work colleagues to make the best use of available ICT including teaching, learning and assessment systems 3. Ensure contingency plans are in place in the case of technology failure 4. Ensure data collection systems providing information to stakeholders are streamlined to maximise efficiency of the data supplied HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 1. Manage the payroll services for all school staff including the management of pension schemes and associated services. 2. Ensure the school s equality policy is clearly communicated to all staff in school 3. Ensure that all recruitment, appraisal, staff development, grievance, disciplinary and redundancy policies and procedures comply with legal and regulatory requirements

6 4. Manage recruitment, performance management, appraisal and development for all support staff. 5. Monitor the relevant legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements and the effect they have on your school and staff 6. Ensure people have a clear understanding of the policies and procedures and the importance of putting them into practice 7. Monitor the way policies and procedures are actioned and provide support where necessary 8. Seek and make use of specialist expertise in relation to HR issues 9. Evaluate the school s strategic objectives and obtain information for workforce planning 10. Identify the types of skills, knowledge, understanding and experience required to undertake existing and future planned activities FACILITY, CATERING & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 1. Ensure the supervision of relevant planning and construction processes is undertaken in line with contractual obligations 2. Ensure the safe maintenance and security operation of all school premises 3. Manage the maintenance of the school site including the purchase and repair of all furniture and fittings 4. Ensure the continuing availability of utilities, site services and equipment 5. Follow sound practices in estate management and grounds maintenance 6. Monitor, assess and review contractual obligations for outsourced school services 7. Ensure a safe environment for the stakeholders of the school to provide a secure environment in which due learning processes can be provided 8. Ensure ancillary services e.g. cleaning etc, are monitored and managed effectively 9. Manage the letting of school premises to external organisations, for the development of the extended services and local community requirements. 10. Seek professional advice on insurance and advise the SLT on appropriate insurances for the school and implement and manage such schemes accordingly. 11. Manage the in-house catering department. HEALTH & SAFETY 1. Act as the school s Health & Safety Co-ordinator and Fire Officer. 2. Plan, instigate and maintain records of fire practices and alarm tests. 3. Ensure the school s written health & safety policy statement is clearly communicated and available to all people 4. Ensure the health & safety policy is implemented at all times, put into practice and is subject to review and assessment at regular intervals or as situations change 2. Enable regular consultation with people on health and safety issues 3. Ensure systems are in place to enable the identification of hazards and risk assessments 4. Ensure systems are in place for effective monitoring, measuring and reporting of health and safety issues to the Senior Team, Governors and where appropriate the Health & Safety Executive 5. Ensure the maximum level of security consistent with the ethos of the school 6. Oversee statutory obligations are being met for pupils with special educational needs, ensuring that financial and supporting agency services are adequate for their diverse needs The job description sets out duties of the post when it is drawn up. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. It is vital to the ethos of the school that the post holder is flexible in taking on additional tasks, willing to offer help, and treats co-operation and support for colleagues as a top priority.

7 When not required to undertake any responsibility falling within the above, the postholder may be directed to provide additional support in the school, in accordance with the duties of other similarly or lower graded jobs for which they are suitably skilled/ qualified. This post is subject to a check being carried out at an Enhanced level by the Criminal Records Bureau regarding any previous criminal record. Personnel Specification Business Manager Qualifications Good academic qualifications in Maths/numeracy and English/literacy Essential Desirable How assessed App/Doc Business Management / Financial or other suitable/relevant qualifications App/Doc Experience Business Management experience in either an educational or commercial setting. Comfortable working with students aged Experience of leading and managing staff. Knowledge Knowledge of child protection. Knowledge of health and safety, HR and site management procedures. Awareness of a range of frameworks that support the education, development and well-being of children. Knowledge of Financial procedures and statutory requirements. Skills/Attributes Ability and willingness to undertake professional development. App/Int Good interpersonal skills. Empathy with children and young

8 people. Essential Desirable How assessed Ability to effectively manage student behaviour in accordance with school/college policy and procedure. Ability to work effectively as part of a team. The capacity to work well under pressure, remain calm and cope with the unexpected. General Circumstances Attendance - evidence of regular attendance at work. Excellent organisation and time management skills. An understanding of, and commitment to, Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to strategic work and dayto-day situations. Factors not already covered Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act App = Application Form Test = Test Int = Interview Pre = Presentation Med = Medical Questionnaire Doc = Documentary Evidence (E.g., Certificates) Advert and application details: App/Ref/ Med App/Int Med Closing date: Monday 9 th January 2017, 9am Interviews to take place: Friday 13 th and Monday 16 th January 2017 Please complete an application form and send this, together with a covering letter to: Stuart Wilson, Principal, The Market Bosworth School, Station Road, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. CV13 0JT

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