School Business Manager

Job Title: School Business Manager

Location: Derby, DE1 3HF

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, Full Year

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

About Ryefields

Ryefields is a brand-new, purpose-built special school in Derby, dedicated to providing outstanding education and support for children and young people with ASC and SEMH needs. Our vision is to create a safe, nurturing, and inspiring environment where every child can achieve their full potential. As part of the Ryefields team, you’ll play a key role in creating a positive and inclusive school culture right from the start.

The Role

The Role of the School Business Manager is an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for the leadership, management supervision and development of the support services within the school, ensuring an efficient, safe, healthy, clean, and comfortable environment is provided within budget and in line with strategic aims and objectives.

There is an expectation that you will act with a high degree of autonomy including responsibility and accountability for managing delegated budgets and resources. The role also involves creating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development plans aimed at bringing about continual improvement in the areas of responsibility.

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• A Management or Professional qualification in related area to role e.g. Management Diploma or Finance qualification is desirable.
• knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations and standards for education
• Knowledge of current inspection frameworks used by regulatory and statutory bodies.
• Safeguarding and legislative procedures when working with children and young people
• Management and knowledge of EBITDA, financial systems, processes and budget preparation Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
• Ability to form & promote positive relationships with and between young people, employees, parents and representatives of outside agencies
• Ability to define high, appropriate and attainable standards, and achieve them
• Effective team leadership and management
• Ability to assess situations accurately, resolve problems effectively and take decisions

As part The Aurora Group, we offer:

Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to Apply

If you are enthusiastic about making a difference and excited to be part of the Ryefields team, we’d love to hear from you!

For candidates that haven’t worked in this sector before please be aware that for regulatory reasons the application process is far more detailed and thorough compared to other sectors.

Please complete the online application form in full, including all employment and education details, and provide a personal statement that makes us keen to speak to you.

• Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. 
• The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 
• The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. 
• This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 
• Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.