Deputy Executive Business Manager
Parkside Community College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1EH35 days remaining to apply
Closing date
20 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 June 2026
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
- £22,500.00 Annually (Actual) The role is part time (0.5 FTE). The salary offered is based on a full time equivalent salary of circa £45,000, dependent on experience
Deputy Executive Business Manager job summary
Welcome to the Cambridge Cluster of United Learning and thank you for your interest in the Deputy Executive Business Manager role. This position represents an excellent opportunity to play a key part in shaping and supporting the continued success of five schools, each at a different stage of its journey.
United Learning is a dynamic and rewarding organisation to work for. There is a strong focus on developing people and empowering innovation; leaders are given exceptional opportunities to learn and grow, whilst all staff are valued and celebrated. We are committed to nurturing the distinct ethos of each school, while ensuring that United Learning’s mission of bringing out the ‘Best in Everyone’ remains at the heart of everything we do. Our Cluster joined United Learning in September 2019 and continues on a journey of sustained improvement, with each school developing its own identity, values, and priorities to better serve its local community.
In this role, you will work closely with the Executive Business Manager to deliver high-quality strategic financial planning, ensuring that each school makes the most effective use of its resources to achieve the very best outcomes for students. You will build strong, professional relationships with Principals and Senior Leadership Teams across the Cluster, providing both support and constructive challenge. In addition, you will take responsibility for developing and leading a small team, driving high standards and continuous improvement.
If you are seeking an exciting, challenging, and highly rewarding role, with a strong emphasis on professional development, I warmly encourage you to apply. United Learning is an inclusive employer, committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce. We particularly welcome applications from individuals of minority ethnic backgrounds, alongside all those who share our values and commitment to excellence.
I encourage you to get in touch should you have any questions in advance of submitting your application, and I very much look forward to hearing from you.
Darren Cooley
Executive Business Manager
About United Learning
United Learning is a group of schools which aims to provide excellent education to children and young people across the country. We seek to improve the life chances of all the children and young people we serve and make it our mission to bring out ‘the best in everyone’ - students, staff, parents and the wider community. We uniquely comprise schools in both the state and the independent sectors. We currently educate over 55,000 students and employ over 9,000 members of staff including over 4,000 teachers.
As a group, we can offer more to both staff and young people than any single school could offer alone. The growing range of outstanding group-wide activities that we can provide will mean that more young people will have truly exceptional and inspiring experiences. We believe that our Group contains the most developed relationships and practical interaction between independent and state schools in the country, creating benefits for all the schools involved.
As part of United Learning, the Cambridge Cluster schools share the objective of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’, enabling each student to become a balanced, happy and articulate person with intellectual freedom, confidence, compassion, integrity and a lifelong love of learning.
To find out more about United Learning, please visit the website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Parkside Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 694 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Parkside Community College website
Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out 'The Best in Everyone' through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.
Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker's Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of 'human scale' education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes.
Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English, both in the main school and in the 6th Form.
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