Managing Director, Personal Best Education
The Mountbatten School
Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £57,185-£64,595
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 12 September 2019
Job overview
Job Title: Managing Director
Hours: Full time / permanent
Salary: £57,185-£64,595
Location: Romsey
We are working in partnership with Personal Best Education, which is a trading subsidiary of the prestigious Mountbatten School, to find their next Managing Director. Personal Best Education is an inspirational and dynamic company, where no two days are the same as it aims to provide activities, programmes and services that enable others to achieve their personal best. Personal Best Education started in 2011/12 with £60,000 investment and has grown to a £3.5 million turnover today, it is hoped the next Managing Director will lead the organisation in to a second phase of substantial growth.
As the Senior Executive, alongside the Chief Executive and Board of Directors, you will be responsible and accountable for drawing up a medium and long term vision, and driving the underpinning strategy for Personal Best Education. You will be responsible for motivating a multi-disciplinary team, business diversification and generating income.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate:
• Significant management and leadership experience, including at senior level in a complex, multi-stakeholder organisation
• Evidence of strategic thinking and vision, with the ability to analyse complex concepts and information
• Financial acumen to set up and manage a budget, interpret profit, loss and balance sheets and management reports
• A track record of forging successful partnerships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to develop new funding streams and business opportunities
• A clear record of developing and sustaining a customer focussed culture
You will be innovative, entrepreneurial and flexible with a participative and inclusive management style, and have the ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals. Self-motivated and proactive, you will be able to identify opportunities whilst raising and maintaining the profile and performance of the organisation.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person. To apply please submit your CV and supporting statement to info@charismarecruitment.co.uk quoting our reference JO1696.
For any further information, please contact Jenny Warner on 0207 998 8888 or 01962 813300.
Closing date for applications: 12 September 2019
First interview date: w/c 30 September 2019
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About The Mountbatten School
The school is situated in Romsey, a very pleasant abbey town in the southern Test Valley. Opened in 1969 and built on land formerly in the ownership of Earl Mountbatten's Broadlands Estate, the school enjoyed the patronage of Lord Louis until his assassination. We are honoured that his great granddaughter, The Lady Alexandra Knatchbull, is our current patron.
The school is one of the largest and most successful co-educational comprehensives in Hampshire. Our intake is 300, and there are currently 1466 students on roll.
The school serves a predominantly rural catchment area extending from the boundary of Southampton to the boundary of Wiltshire. We are the larger of two secondary schools in the town. The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed.
The school is a Single Academy Trust. Andrew Portas, the school’s Headmaster, has been in post since September 2022 and was formerly the Senior Deputy appointed in September 2010. The school is organised into eight faculties with approximately 80 FTE teaching staff, and the pastoral structure is based on five year groups.
The school is fortunate to have extensive grounds as it was built on land that was formerly part of Lord Mountbatten’s Broadlands Estate. Since the school became an academy on 1 April 2011, there has been an extensive refurbishment programme over many years. As a result, all departments are very well-resourced and accommodated.
The school is high achieving and GCSE outcomes are very good. Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection of the school in January 2024; the school remained ‘good’ with many aspects of the school’s work being recognised as ‘first class’. There is a very strong international ethos and tangible links with schools in Africa, Asia and Europe. The school has a very strong focus on staff development. Career development is pursued in leadership, pedagogy and pastoral opportunities.
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