Chief Financial Officer

Aletheia Academies Trust, Gravesend, DA11 7LS

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2026

• Closing date

  25 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  31 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £80,000 to £120,000, Commensurate with experience
• Additional allowances:

  £80,000 to £120,000, Commensurate with experience

Chief Financial Officer job summary

Chief Executive Officer

Full-time, permanent

Salary: £80,000 to £120,000, Commensurate with experience

Required to start: February 2026

Are you an exceptional financial leader ready to make a real impact? Aletheia Academies Trust is seeking an outstanding CFO to join our dynamic Executive Team.

As a key strategic partner to the CEO and Board of Trustees, you will provide high-quality leadership, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the Trust continues to deliver exceptional outcomes for its 10,000+ pupils.

You will make a difference to the lives of children and young people by ensuring Aletheia remains financially secure and operationally effective. This is a high-profile and influential role, central to shaping the future of the Trust.

You will be leading a substantial team of motivated professionals and will need to be committed to their current and future development, and the continual improvement of services.

You will be focussed on building excellent relationships with budget holders and budget managers throughout the Trust, and ensuring they all have the best available information, processes and tools to deliver excellence.

Critically, you will be a skilled and experienced strategic planner, comfortable with working with the CEO and the Board, and a team player with Management Team colleagues in delivering shared objectives.

In essence, we seek a professional who will combine strategic insight with practical financial expertise; someone who leads by example, developing a culture of accountability and collaboration.

If you’re motivated by purpose, inspired by challenge, and ready to leave a lasting legacy, we’d love to hear from you.

Why work at Aletheia Academies Trust?

At Aletheia Academies Trust, our vision is to improve the life chances of local children by ensuring that every child receives the very best start in life.

We are a thriving Multi Academy Trust (MAT) in Kent, currently responsible for 16 schools spanning primary, secondary, and all-through provision. United by a shared commitment to excellence, inclusion, and opportunity, we are ambitious for our pupils and staff, committed to serving our communities by providing safe, inclusive, and nurturing environments where all can flourish.

The Trust is financially stable, strategically ambitious, and ready to enter the next stage of growth to which the appointment of a Chief Financial Officer will be critical.

Our strong ethical framework guides our actions, ensuring that our decisions and practices align with our core values and contribute to the holistic development of the Aletheia community.

Some of our Trust benefits include:

• Trust-wide commitment to your ongoing Continuous Professional Development (CPD) including secondment options and mentorship opportunities
• Unlimited access for you and your family to 24/7 GP telephone consultations.
• Access to a wide array of discounts including Motorfinity, Kent Rewards and Blue Light Card.
• Free access to mental health and wellbeing support including counselling, mindfulness and physiotherapy sessions
• Free annual eye tests and flu vaccinations each year

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a suitable candidate apply.

Aletheia Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Aletheia Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/aletheia-academies-trust

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