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Director of Corporate Services

Director of Corporate Services

Stoke Damerel Community College

Plymouth

  • Expired
Salary:
£60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent

Job overview

Inspiring Schools Partnership multi-academy trust would like to appoint an ambitious and energetic Director of Corporate Services who will work alongside the Executive Principal, Headteachers and Trustees within the MAT of 3 schools: Stoke Damerel Community College, Montpelier Primary School, Scott Medical and Healthcare College.  

The successful candidate will shape the central service team and be accountable to the Trustees for the overall performance of the corporate functions. 

  • To be the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) holding responsibility in accordance with the Academies Financial Handbook
  • To work as a member of the Executive Team of Inspiring School Partnership Multi Academy Trust 
  • Be responsible for the financial sustainability and development of the MAT
  • To provide high-quality leadership and management for the Trust’s finances, capital estate and corporate services within the MAT.
  • To provide and support all schools within ISP with their business functions including financial management, estates management, project management, IT, facilities and premises, health and safety, asset management.


We are looking for a qualified, experienced and successful professional with outstanding leadership skills with an enterprising approach to business development.

Inspiring Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All members of staff at Inspiring Schools Partnership must undertake the required employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and an enhanced (DBS) disclosure.

Please complete the separate application and monitoring form including within it:

• Why the post attracts you

• What specific skills do you believe you have to offer the role.

Send to Anita Frier, Executive Principal, Inspiring Schools Partnership, c/o  Stoke Damerel Community College, Somerset Place, Stoke, Plymouth PL3 4BD or email to recruitment@sdcc.net 

Closing date: 21st January 2019

Interview date: 29th January 2019 

Full Time, Permanent

Salary:  £60k - £70k Subject to Negotiation

Required ASAP

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About Stoke Damerel Community College

Stoke Damerel Community College is located in Plymouth, a vibrant waterfront city in the South West packed full of historical interest, cultural attractions and set in an area of natural beauty.

We are an oversubscribed 11 - 19 secondary school and form part of Greenshaw Learning Trust, a Multi Academy Trust, which is a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice, and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

Our passion is to support and develop our students to realise their full potential and prepare them for the next journey of their lives.  We have high expectations of both staff and students and believe that every student has the right to learn, every teacher has the right to teach and every support member of staff has the right to offer valued support: This creates a disruption free learning environment in which students and staff can flourish, feel safe, respected and valued.

Our ethos supports our vision  - Aspire, Achieve, Thrive.  Head to our website homepage, or contact us and discover why this is a truly great place to work.

“Stoke Damerel Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”.  All teaching and support members of staff must undertake all the required employment checks which include, but is not limited to, the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We welcome visits from all potential applicants. This can be arranged by emailing: hr@sdcc.net.

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