Chief Financial Officer
The Stephen Perse Foundation
Cambridge
- Expired
- Salary:
- A competitive salary will be offered for this role in line with applicant's experience and qualifications.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2021
- Apply by:
- 12 October 2020
Job overview
We are the Stephen Perse Foundation. Extraordinary things happen here every day.
I am immensely excited to have been appointed as the Principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation and am really looking forward to leading the Foundation in the years ahead. I am excited because all of the evidence I have seen tells me that the Foundation is superbly well placed, both to meet the challenges, and to seize the opportunities, presented by its future as a leader in modern independent education.
Any school, indeed any group of schools, is only as strong as its people. The Stephen Perse Foundation boasts exceptional people across all of its schools and nurseries, and invests in their recruitment, development and empowerment to ensure its pupils benefit from excellent role modelling, outstanding support and exceptional teaching.
As incoming Principal, I realise the central importance of continuing this investment. At the Stephen Perse Foundation, all are united in embracing the modern world and in seeking to help our pupils to find and take their place in it, as confident, socially responsible adults. We seek to attract people who are inspired by this challenge, people who share the Foundation’s values, people who are passionate about our collective vision of developing the change makers of the future.
Richard Girvan
Principal
Role Description:
This is a new role arising from the re-casting of the Bursar & Strategic Development Director role, which will be vacated by the incumbent shortly after the end of this term. The Chief Financial Officer will support the Principal and Governors of the Stephen Perse Foundation in realising their vision for the Foundation’s future.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the Principal and Governors in both the financial management of this forward thinking group of schools and the long term strategic planning.
The CFO will also work closely with the wider leadership teams who have day to day responsibility for the operational running of the Foundation.
As a member of the Stephen Perse Foundation leadership team, the Chief Financial Officer provides input to the overall strategic development of the Foundation and is responsible for leading the development of the financial strategy to meet the Foundation’s long term objectives.
The CFO is responsible to the Governing Body for the financial health, sustainability and development of the Stephen Perse Foundation, its funding, financial systems and processes. The Chief Financial Officer attends Governing Body and sub-committee meetings.
Application process
Please apply directly through our online recruitment portal by clicking the Apply button below.
We are unable to accept CVs as a method of application.
The closing date for applications is on 31 October 2020, or before this date should a suitable applicant be appointed.
Suitable applicants will be invited to interview as we receive their application.
If you would like an informal discussion about the role with our Chair of Governors, please contact Debra Leggoe (dbl@stephenperse.com ).
The Stephen Perse Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Attached documents
About The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.
History of the Stephen Perse Foundation
Formerly the Perse Girls School, founded in 1881, the Foundation developed to become the Stephen Perse Foundation in 2007, and first admitted boys into the Senior School in 2017. The Foundation has grown over recent years, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s in Saffron Walden) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.
Predominantly a day school, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing students for the future.
Stephen Perse Foundation Schools
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Salisbury Villas
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Shaftesbury Road
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Madingley
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Saffron Walden, Dame Bradbury's
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden
- Stephen Perse Senior School - Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Sixth Form - Cambridge
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission Statement
At the Stephen Perse Foundation, our mission is to educate and inspire the contributors to tomorrow’s world: intelligent young people with the creativity, compassion, confidence and conviction to question, evaluate and improve society.
Our Vision Statement
To deliver this mission, our vision is to create and sustain an outstanding educational environment that:
- Fosters modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum
- Provides outstanding breadth of opportunity and quality of experience through a rich and varied co-curriculum
- Nurtures and celebrates individuality, wellbeing, personal development, and contribution to the growth of others, through superb pastoral care, social and emotional education, and learning support
- Champions and models equality, diversity and inclusivity, and social and environmental responsibility with a global outlook
Our Values Statement
With excellence and creativity in teaching and learning at the core of each of our schools and nurseries, we value the positive difference our students can make in the world through:
- Scholarship and the advancement of knowledge and understanding
- Kindness, courtesy, inclusivity and collaboration
- Diligence, independence and self-reliance
- Humility, reflectiveness and the pursuit of self-improvement
- Character, individuality, wellbeing and confidence
- Conserving the environment and living sustainably
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