Cluster Manager
Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust, Loughton, IG10 3HE11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,577.00 - £36,082.00 Annually (Actual) 37hrs Term time plus four weeks. Salary (Scale 8) is annualised.
Cluster Manager job summary
Are you ready for your next challenge? Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust has created a brand new post of Cluster Manager to lead a small team that provides HR and Finance support for 5 schools. This opportunity gives you the potential to shape the future of operational support both at school level and within the Trust. The five schools are Alderton Infant School, Alderton Junior School, Epping Upland Primary, Ivy Chimneys Primary and Lambourne Primary.
The position is for 37 hours a week , 42 working weeks per year. One week must be taken in the summer break.
This is a great opportunity for an individual with a strong background in Finance to work with the central team and the headteachers to provide financial and HR support for the schools. The job description lists all the requirements of the job but includes the following:
- Coordination of annual budget of income and expenditure for the academies
- Monitoring the annual budget and presenting management reports to the Headteacher/CFO and LGC, attending relevant meetings as requested and working in collaboration with the Central Team
- Preparation, of long-term assessments of the future financial performance of the academy
- Working with the schools and the Central HR team on recruitment, absence and payroll
- Maintaining the Single Central Record
- Line management of a team of three people
The successful candidate should be/have:
- Experience in financial management and budgeting
- Experience in HR administration& Recruitment experience.
- Working knowledge of appropriate academy's financial policies and procedures
Professional and reliable
In return we can offer:
- Training
Access to the local government pension scheme
A wellbeing package including an annual term time wellbeing day and Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to work scheme
Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust (EFSPT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS check and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed. Online searches are conducted on all shortlisted candidates. EFSPT is committed to equality and making fair and equitable treatment an integral part of everything we do.
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 are not accepted.
About Epping Forest Schools Partnership Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Head office location
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