Executive BUSINESS MANAGER
Fortis Academy
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- SET Grade 13, Spinal Range 55 – 59 (£55,711 - £59,980)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 16 December 2022
Job overview
Executive BUSINESS MANAGER
Contract: Permanent Contract, 37 hours per week, all year round
Salary: SET Grade 13, Spinal Range 55 – 59 (£55,711 - £59,980)
Fortis Academy is a very large 11-18 academy serving a local area of high-density housing in Birmingham’s outer suburbs. The Academy is the largest employer in the ward, with over 200 employees.
Fortis Academy’s mission is Enriching Lives. Our curriculum centres around three key areas; a rich and ambitious knowledge-based academic curriculum, a continuous attention to physical and mental well-being, with increasing use of 21st century technologies to support improved outcomes. We believe this combination will help our students lead confident, healthy, and fulfilled lives as adults and ready for the world of work.
We are seeking to appoint an Executive Business Manager to support and contribute to the strategic leadership of the school business function. The Executive Business Manager will be an integral part of the senior leadership team who brings together a wide range of people and functions to keep the day-to-day business operations of the academy running smoothly to ensure our colleagues and students have access to excellent resources and facilities.
Fortis Academy is part of a family of schools within Shaw Education Trust, in which primary, secondary and special schools, as well as a further education setting, and a research school collaborate to achieve the best outcomes for young people.
Applicants must have:
- A degree in Business and Administration, NCSL Diploma in School Business Management, or equivalent qualification or experience in relevant discipline
- Significant experience in a secondary school setting
- Proven Management experience
- Experience of leading HR and Health and Safety processes
- Experience of guiding, motivating and developing team members.
- Financial acumen
- Management of contracts and/or financial bidding systems.
- Have excellent numeracy and literacy skills
- An understanding of relevant financial, health and safety, education legislation and its impact on schools
• Experience of managing HR function within a large Academy
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (28 days holiday rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service + Paid Bank Holidays FTE)- (Support Staff Only)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
How to Apply:
Informal conversations for this post are warmly welcomed and potential candidates are invited to contact the Headteacher’s PA (Senior Academy), Sandra Clare on 0121 366 6611 to arrange a discussion with the Headteacher Andrew Williams
Fortis Academy’s website (http://fortisacademy.org.uk) offers candidates a wealth of up-to-date information about the Academy; its ethos and aims, day to day life, and news items covering a wide range of events and activities.
Application forms and guidance notes can all be downloaded from our website https://fortisacademy.org.uk/teaching-jobs/
Please email your completed application form and covering letter to the Trust Recruitment Manager natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Fortis Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks. We are an Equal Opportunities employer.
The closing date: Friday 16th December 2022 at 12 noon
Interviews TBC
We reserve the right to close the advertisement early should a suitable candidate be identified
Attached documents
About Fortis Academy
- Fortis Academy
- Aldridge Road, Great Barr, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B44 8NU
- United Kingdom
About Us:
Fortis Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
Our large and established Sixth Form, which is rated as ‘Good’ by OFSTED, specialises in providing high quality Level 3 qualifications and Level 3 ‘applied general’ qualifications. Year on year we are getting more students into the top Russell Group universities and are significantly exceeding the national average in doing so. The breadth of subjects offered provides both our students and our staff with great development opportunities.
Our students are drawn from a diverse community and, as OFSTED have noted, there is “comfortable cohesion” and our students “work together and play together well.” Visitors frequently comment on the pleasant, lively and friendly atmosphere in the school and the great sense of energy and purpose among staff and students.
The school has strong, mutually beneficial links with local schools, universities, employers and community organisations.
Working at Fortis:
We are very committed to the continuous professional development of our staff, and have worked hard to embed sophisticated, innovative strategies to improve teaching and pupil outcomes across the school. Many of our staff have chosen to develop their careers at the school or have returned to more senior roles after a period working in other schools.
We have a highly developed and well established programme for providing NQT’s with the necessary support to achieve a successful and smooth first year in their new careers. It has been described as ‘an exemplar of good practice’ and is frequently praised by our partner teacher training institutions. Fortis Academy is an excellent place to build a career.
Fortis Academy’s website offers candidates a wealth of up to date information about the Academy; its ethos and aims, day to day life, and news items covering a wide range of events and activities.
Vacancy details, application forms and guidance notes can all be downloaded from the website. Applications can also be emailed directly to the School through the website.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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