Director of Finance
Gildredge House, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20 8AB7 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
24 February 2025
Latest start date
17 March 2025
Closing date
22 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 21 hours over 3 days per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £51,027 - £56,316
Actual salary
- £29,295 - £32,331
Pay scale
- Gildredge House Leadership Support Scale L2 - L6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Ideal candidates will:
- Align to the Gildredge House vision, mission and values.
- Have proven experience of successfulbusiness and financial leadership and management.
- Be financially astute with strong analytical skills and experience in financial planning, togetherwith high skill levels in all aspects of budgetary processes and financial management.
- Possess a working knowledge of risk and compliance, and ideally the law and the regulatoryframework affecting schools, including safeguarding and data protection.
- Be committed to working in partnership with colleagues, Governors, parents, and the communityto deliver excellence.
- Be able to organise, lead and motivate staff and to challenge any underperformance.
- Act with integrity and build effective, trusting relationships with colleagues and students.
- Be a strategic thinker who is willing to contribute to the wider strategy of the school whilstmaintaining direct operational responsibilities.
- Be commercially aware, with experience of creative thinking around income generation and costcontrol.
- Be an outstanding leader.
- Be able to coach others in a solution-focused approach.
- Be able to use IT systems including Microsoft Office products and financial software programmes.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills, both verbal and written, in order to maintain accuraterecords and documentation and provide written reports as requested.
- Have a genuine interest ineducation and achieving thebest outcomes for our young people.
What the school offers its staff
As a Senior Leader at Gildredge House, we will offer you:
- A carefully designed and supportive induction plan to ensure you have everythingyou need to start your new role confidently and smoothly
- Career development opportunities
- On-hand expertise from the Chair of Governors, Executive Head Teacher andHeads of School
- An executive coach
- Leadership Coaching Qualification
- Two-week Autumn half term
- LGPS Pension Scheme
- Care First Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff wellbeing and sport opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Gildredge House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All offers of employment with the school are subject to pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, a satisfactory Enhanced DBS with Children’s Barred List check and a Declaration that they are not a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2006.
Applying for the job
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About Gildredge House
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1182 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Gildredge House website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@gildredgehouse.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01323400650
Gildredge House is an all-through 4-19 Free School, established in 2013.
Arranging a visit to Gildredge House
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@gildredgehouse.org.uk.
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