Senior Finance Academy Officer
Durrington High School
West Sussex
- £27,569 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- DMAT Grade 7 scp 14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2024
Job overview
The Senior Finance Academy Officer role is a newly created post. This is such an exciting time to join DMAT and we are looking to recruit an exceptional individual to join our team.
The successful applicant will work closely with the trust Finance Director and will have the opportunity to help shape the role. The job is wide and varied; supporting senior leaders, our schools and trust to spend within cost centres, secure best value, find cost savings/efficiencies and look for opportunities. DMAT is financially strong and there is a great deal of expertise within the team. As well as working closely with the Director of Finance; you will work with the Director of Operations and CEO.
The role will be extremely rewarding. All DMAT colleagues, regardless of their role are focused on ensuring every child gets the best possible education, regardless of their starting point. To achieve this, you need excellent staff who are happy in post and feel valued and motivated to help our children succeed. Our decisions and strategy are value- led and always with our students and staff at the heart of our decisions.
DMAT central team staff offices are based at Durrington High School (DHS), one of the largest secondary schools, a really impressive site. The role is based at DHS and for part of the week you will be based at Burgess Hill where our next school to join DMAT is located. There will be occasions when you will visit our other schools.
To ensure your success within the role you will have a strong background in finance; understanding the need for compliance, accuracy and be able to interpret and provide reports on a wide range of data sets. You will enjoy working in a dynamic environment where no one day is the same. We work as a team and a willingness to ‘muck in’ and do what needs to be done, as well as the ability to manage your own continued development with alignment with DMAT’s values and ethos is key. Our moral purpose underpins all that we do.
In return we offer a competitive salary, the unique opportunity to develop the role, with the potential to develop and expand this as the trust grows. You will be part of a small, friendly, highly focused team, who are always looking to improve: Getting better never stops.
If you have questions prior to submitting an application please contact Jo Dommett on jdommett@dmat.education or Kelly Copley via kcopley@dmat.education to arrange a call.
Closing date for applications is: 9.00am Thursday 23 May 2024
Durrington Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people. We support all staff and volunteers through regular training and expect everyone working at the school to be proactive and adhere to our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy at all times.
In addition to the statutory pre-employment checks, this appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a safeguarding background check and interview.
Durrington Multi Academy Trust is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome the unique contributions that everyone can bring to Durrington Multi Academy Trust in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expressions, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
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About Durrington High School
Working at Durrington
At Durrington we have worked hard to develop a culture in our school where teachers and leaders are looked after, supported and professionally enriched. We would love to hear from you if you think that you might want to play a part in the exciting Durrington journey! In an ever-changing educational landscape, we focus on clear priorities:
- Ensuring all staff are able to have a sensible work/life balance - this means that we constantly review what we do, so teachers and leaders are able to focus on their core purpose.
- An evidence informed approach to teaching and CPD - we don’t want our teachers wasting their time on low-impact, gimmicky approaches to teaching. We want them to shape their teaching around what research evidence says is most likely to work. As one of only 39 Research Schools in the country, we are at the forefront of ensuring everything we do is informed by research evidence.
- Developing and growing our own excellent leaders, who in turn are able to nurture their own high-performing teams.
- Appointing external candidates with shared values, who will thrive in our school.
Looking After Our Staff
At Durrington we know that our staff are our most valuable resource. As a result, we have put in place a number of strategies to alleviate the pressures on staff. These include:
- We have moved away from a ‘tick-box’ approach to teaching and have embraced a ‘tight but loose’ approach. We want teaching to be tight, in terms of focusing on sound, evidence-informed pedagogical principles, but loose in terms of how this is interpreted in classrooms by subject specialists.
- Each department has developed their own streamlined feedback and homework policies, aimed at reducing workload whilst optimising impact.
- Teachers are not expected to write lengthy reports for students, but to record a current and projected grade for students and a judgement grade for effort and homework. •
- Enhanced pay scales and rapid progression opportunities.
- Teacher non-contact time above the national average.
- We have just three data collection points for each year group in a year, informed by ongoing assessment of student progress.
- We do not grade lesson observations.
- Fortnightly joint planning CPD within curriculum teams saves a significant amount of time for individual teachers.
- INSET days are used for collaborative planning in curriculum teams.
- Teachers are not expected to keep lengthy ‘evidence files’ for appraisal.
- All staff are registered with Healthshield for a range of wellbeing and practical support services with benefits including a variety of treatments for musculoskeletal issues, 24/7 GP and Employee Assistance Programme.
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