Finance Manager
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen, Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Circa £40,000 depending on experience and qualifications
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2018
Job overview
We are seeking a suitably experienced Finance Manager to provide financial support within the North West cluster of schools of our growing multi-academy trust. The four schools in the cluster are located in the town of Darwen and include a primary school, a studio school, an 11-18 school and an 11-16 school.
Aldridge Education is a charitable trust whose non-selective, entrepreneurial community schools and colleges help young people to reach their potential. We work in different regions across England where often the opportunities and prospects are most limited, and where the introduction of our entrepreneurial approach to education can have more benefit. To find out more about our academies, support and resources please visit www.alridgeeducation.org
The purpose of the role is:
To ensure that the shared finance service within the cluster provides an effective, efficient and high-quality customer service to the trust, its schools and management
To ensure that the direction and actions developed by the trust as a national organisation are embedded in practice in the processes and procedures in the cluster of schools
To download the full job description and application form please visit http://www.daca.uk.com/vacancies
Closing date for applications: 2pm on Thursday 21st June 2018
Date of interview: Tuesday 26th June 2018
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please email sam.grimsaw@daca.uk.com or call us on 01254 819500.
Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check.
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About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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