Chief Financial Officer
Cornwall Education Learning Trust, St Austell, PL26 7RN2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
4th January 2027
Closing date
16 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- R Grade
Chief Financial Officer job summary
Cornwall Education Learning Trust (CELT) is seeking an experienced and strategic Chief Financial Officer to join our Executive Leadership Team on an interim basis.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic financial leadership across a growing Trust of 16 schools, educating approximately 9,000 learners and employing 1,200 colleagues across mid-Cornwall.
Working closely with the Chief Executive, Accounting Officer and Board of Trustees, you will lead the development of the Trust's financial strategy, ensuring our resources are aligned with our educational ambitions and long-term financial sustainability.
You will provide authoritative financial advice, lead strategic and multi-year financial planning, oversee budgets and financial performance, and ensure robust governance, compliance and financial assurance. You will also play a key role in supporting effective resource allocation, investment decisions and value for money across our schools and central services.
As a collaborative and influential leader, you will bring clarity, professional challenge and financial expertise, enabling informed decisions that ultimately deliver the greatest benefit for our children and young people.
This is a 22.2 hours per week opportunity for a finance professional who shares our commitment to ethical leadership, effective stewardship of public funds and our ambition to provide every learner with an exceptional educational experience.
For more information, please contact Recruitment Team at recruitment@celtrust.org
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Cornwall Education Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all
staff to share this commitment. The postholder is required to follow all of the Trust’s policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding at all
times, and to adhere to the statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. The postholder must take appropriate action in the event
that they have concerns, or are made aware of the concerns of others, regarding the safety or wellbeing of children or young people.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Cornwall Education Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
As a Trust, we agree that a child needs to feel that they are wanted, loved and valued for exactly who they are, from the beginning. There is no replacement for that and if it’s not right at the start, everything that follows is playing catch up. After that, it is about nurturing the individual genius of each child. Every child is unique and has their own strengths, weaknesses, and passions. It doesn’t matter what these might be; what matters is focusing on what it is they love and giving them the space and time to explore those passions.
We cannot forget that the core business of schools is ensuring that children and young people are able to read, write and be numerate. We also know that whatever the world may look like in the future, there will be a need to instil universal human values. Values-based education empowers schools to emphasise the centrality of all people in society
and focuses on valuing self, others and the environment, underpinning their curriculum with universal positive human values such as respect, justice, equality, integrity, harmony, trust and honesty.
At CELT, we believe that nature is a gift we should try to give to each child so forming a relationship with nature early on is a very powerful thing. Our schools are all situated in unique locations. We want children to grow up
remembering their childhood as a happy, safe place where they connected with Cornwall’s beautiful natural environment.
Young people have their own voice - our role is to hear that voice and offer the space and opportunity for it to grow.
A CELT education gives each child a moral compass and self-leadership, it enables reflection and a code of personal ethics. Our pupils become the Captain of their own ship, which ultimately enables them to navigate their wonderful, individual journeys as custodians of our future.
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