School Business Manager
Greenleaf Primary School, London, E17 6QW13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 24 hours per week – flexible working hours will be considered. Term Time, plus 5 Inset days, plus 3 weeks during school holidays
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £44,331 - £50,574
Actual salary
- £ 27,746 - £31,654
Pay scale
- P03 - P04, NJC Scale Points 32 - 38
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an experienced School Business Manager who shares our very high expectations of everyone in our community, who will enjoy working as a member of a friendly and creative team, and who takes a solution-focused approach.
Applicants will require:
Degree or equivalent related professional qualification (qualifications
below degree level will be considered if applicant demonstrates solid
experience and evidence of continuous professional development).
Successful leadership and management experience in a school or relevant field
Experience of HR, recruitment and payroll procedures
Experience of data protection compliance procedures
Experience of fundraising and grant applications
Expert knowledge of financial management and experience of financial/administrative systems
Ability to communicate a vision and inspire others
Ability to build effective working relationships
Experience in producing reports and advising the findings to Senior Leaders, Governors and other stakeholders
Experience of premises, health and safety and facilities management
What the school offers its staff
We are able to offer:
- Lovely children with fantastic attitudes to learning
- A supportive, enthusiastic, talented and fun staff team
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- Established close links with other schools:
- Federation of Walthamstow Central Area Schools (FoWCAS)
- Haringey Education Partnership
- Waltham Forest School Business Manager Group
- Opportunities to grow and develop wider experiences
- Free staff parking
- Employee assistant scheme
- Good transport links
- Flexible working hours
Flexible working opportunities
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruit@greenleaf.waltham.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Greenleaf Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 467 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Greenleaf Primary School website
- Email address
- sbm@greenleaf.waltham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8520 7963
Greenleaf School provides inspirational, inclusive and excellent learning in a vibrant, fun environment to create self-confident and respectful pupils, proud of themselves, their school and their wider community. We are a friendly, inclusive and ambitious school.
Our school motto is: Aim High, Work Hard, Be Kind
Greenleaf is a special and highly successful school for children and staff located in the heart of Walthamstow. We are proud of our many achievements and awards and believe that our success is down to our strong partnership with our children, families, staff and the local community.
Our children are happy, curious, hardworking and motivated to do their best. They are eager to learn and make the most of opportunities to participate in a range of trips, projects and extra-curricular activities. Their parents and carers take every opportunity to support and engage with the school in their child’s learning; we value this.
Greenleaf is led by a highly dedicated staff team that work together to provide a curriculum that focuses on developing the whole child, whilst also ensuring children develop key skills and knowledge in Reading, Writing and Maths. We endeavour to teach all areas of the curriculum in an exciting way, meeting the needs of every child with outstanding pastoral care and high expectations. We work hard to develop lifelong learners who enjoy and strive for success.
We are able to offer:
• A school where staff are valued
• Lovely children with fantastic attitudes to learning
• An enthusiastic, talented and fun staff team
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• Established close links with other schools- we are part of the
Federation of Walthamstow Central Area Schools (FoWCAS)
• Opportunities to grow and develop wider experiences
We are part of an exciting and diverse community, with excellent support from Governors and parents and a positive and caring ethos - Aim High, Work Hard, Be Kind.
We are committed to ensuring that every child in our community has access to the highest possible standard of education as well as a broad range of wider experiences to enrich their learning and provide them with opportunities they may not otherwise receive. Greenleaf is an International School and is a Sadler’s Wells partner school.
We are seeking to appoint staff who share our very high expectations of everyone in our community, who enjoy working as a member of a creative team and who take a solution-focused approach.
Arranging a visit to Greenleaf Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm@greenleaf.waltham.sch.uk.
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