Job Description
* Negotiate and influence strategic decision making within each Academy's Senior Management/Leadership Team and Governing Body.
* Ensure that all resources are managed effectively and efficiently.
* Present timely and fully costed proposals, recommendations or bids.
* Plan and manage change in accordance with each Academy's development/strategic plan.
* Lead and manage the key support functions in each Academy.
* Take a lead role on bringing new schools into the cluster in partnership with Central Office colleagues and the Cluster SLT.
* Be responsible for the overall leadership of each Academy's accounting function and the staff working in that function, ensuring efficient operation in line with agreed procedures, and maintaining those procedures by conducting at least an annual review
* Support the development and monitoring of a long-term people strategy for each Academy and across the Cluster in consultation with the SLT and LGBs, taking strategic and professional advice from the HR Business Partner; other specialists and senior managers within the central People team as needed.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
* Educated to degree level or equivalent.
* Business management qualification or other relevant qualification for the role.
* Experience as a member of a Senior Management Team where the contribution of wider strategy and policy-making has been essential.
* Experience delivering change management programmes.
* Experience of schools' education finance, HR and other aspects of education administration.
* Experience leading and/or managing budgeting and reporting processes in an organisation.
* Extensive experience managing and motivating staff with proven ability to create a united and highly effective team.
* The ability to lead and motivate staff within a performance management framework.
* Experience of having contributed to policy and structure formulation, implementation, evaluation and review.
Reference no: 93489