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School Business Manager
The East Manchester Academy, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3DS13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As Soon As Possible
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,939.00 - £64,926.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 11 - 12 Points 44 - 51 DOE
School Business Manager job summary
About Us
The East Manchester Academy is a vibrant and innovative educational community in the heart of Beswick. We are a part of the Greater Manchester Education Trust. Together, we create lives of opportunity.
‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023)
‘The sense of community is tangible in this inclusive school.’ (Ofsted 2025)
This is a truly exciting time to join The East Manchester Academy as we continue our journey of transformation. Following our most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2025, we are proud to have been judged ‘Good’ overall, with ‘Outstanding’ in Personal Development and Leadership and Management. This marks a significant step forward from our previous inspection and reflects the dedication, ambition, and talent of our staff and students. We are now ready to build on this momentum and accelerate our journey to become an exceptional school where every child flourishes both academically and personally.
Please visit our website to learn more about us and contact: recruitment@temac.co.uk if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy prior to application.
The Role
Are you a strategic, forward-thinking business leader ready to make a lasting impact on the lives of young people? We are seeking to appoint an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated School Business Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the operational success of a vibrant and ambitious secondary school at the heart of the East Manchester community. The successful candidate will lead on financial planning and management, oversee the delivery of key support services, including administration, estates, health and safety, project management, catering, and technical support, and take a proactive role in marketing and promoting the school. The postholder will also be responsible for the training and development of support staff, ensuring the smooth and effective running of the school’s operational functions.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for a strategic leader who can bring out the best in others and drive continuous improvement across support services. The ideal candidate will be an articulate and influential communicator with proven leadership and management experience. You will be educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant experience, with strong numeracy and literacy skills, and hold a Level 4 Diploma in School Business Management (or equivalent Business/Finance qualification such as CSBM or DSBM). You will be highly motivated, systems-minded, and capable of translating strategy into action. Working closely with both middle and senior leadership teams, you will ensure that all staff are supported by an efficient and effective business support service. Your ability to build strong relationships with staff, stakeholders, and students will be key to enabling our school community to thrive and achieve its full potential.
Full details about the role and the qualifications, experience, and attributes required can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Why Join Us?
The successful candidate will join an academy that is relentless in its drive to ensure our students and staff alike achieve their very best and our proud of themselves. We are proud to serve our diverse and inclusive community and wish to appoint a practitioner who shares our commitment to young people in challenging circumstances who believes that excellent leadership can leverage high levels of performance and remains optimistic in the face of adversity.
A Trust for Every Child and Every Colleague
We believe that great futures are built by great people. Colleagues who work in our schools will experience the same focus on care and guidance, opportunity and challenge, so that they can deliver an exceptional education to our young people. They will become the very best practitioners through bespoke support and opportunities to learn professionally, to collaborate, to lead innovation and to advance their career with us.
We strive for excellence in everything we do. At GMET, every role, from teaching to support, is valued. You’ll be supported and empowered to grow within a trust where our core values guide our work with learners, colleagues, families, and the wider community.
We invest in our people. As part of GMET, you’ll benefit from a wide range of employee benefits designed to support your health and wellbeing, help you save money, and make your salary go further including:
- A warm, inclusive, and supportive school culture
- High expectations for all learners and staff
- A strong focus on wellbeing and professional development
- Opportunities to innovate and collaborate across the trust
- A commitment to equity, diversity and accessibility
- Tailored CPD and coaching
- Trust-wide networks and learning communities
- Leadership development pathways
- Access to wellbeing resources and flexible working options
How to Apply
We are committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All roles are subject to:
- Enhanced DBS checks
- Reference and identity verification
- Compliance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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 The East Manchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1031 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The East Manchester Academy website
‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023).
This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.
The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.
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