Business Manager

Kingscourt School is in Catherington, Hampshire. It accepts boys and girls from 2yr 9months-11 years with a new purpose-built Nursery,  gardens and grounds and supportive school community. It is part of the global Cognita Schools group.

The school aims to provide all children with an education focused on maintaining a cherished childhood, with excellent teaching and resources. Each child is encouraged to achieve their full potential with an exciting extra-curricular programme to support the development of character education, preparing them all for the next stage of their educational journey.

The Business Manager role is primarily responsible for supporting the Headteacher to shape, grow, deliver and improve the financial and commercial aspects of the schools’ business agenda. The role is responsible for managing the finance and facilities, managing operations across the school. As well as school responsibilities, the role will have strong visibility on the SCR and will have significant contact with the School Support Centre functions of Finance, HR, GDPR, Marketing and Operations. Please note this role is a fixed term contract for 1 year.

The successful candidate will have proven experience in Business Management. They will have the ability to plan, make decisions, manage budgets, meet Ebitda and financial targets and strategically support the school. The successful candidate will be desired to have a finance qualification, be IT literate with experience of using financial systems and MS Office products (Word, Excel, etc) and preferably a school's admission and pupil management solution system.

PACKAGE INCLUDES

Competitive Salary

Contributory Pension Scheme

Professional development

School fee discount

25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays

Applicants must submit a completed Cognita application form. All applications should be submitted to our Senior Talent Manager, Kamini Chouhan by email, kamini.chouhan@cognita.com  and must be received by midday Monday 27 June 2022.

Cognita Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer Recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Cognita Schools is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.