School Business Manager (SBM) | Progressive Community Academy | Barnet

We require an exceptionally strategic highly organized School Business Manager (SBM) to serve as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and oversee the non-teaching operations of our vibrant community academy. Reporting directly to the Headteacher the successful candidate will assume total operational and strategic responsibility for the schools financial management estate compliance administrative infrastructure human resources administration and health and safety systems. You will ensure that all resources are optimized to directly support outstanding educational outcomes maintaining a safe financially sustainable and highly efficient learning environment for our students and staff.

Our academy is an academically ambitious highly supportive state school situated in the Outer London Borough of Barnet. We are dedicated to cultivating a mature inclusive learning environment where high expectations and outstanding community care go hand in hand. Widely recognized for our strong behavioural standards proactive leadership and cohesive staff culture we offer an exceptionally collaborative professional atmosphere. Our school site features a blend of modern purpose-built learning environments and extensive grounds requiring a sophisticated and forward-planning approach to estate management. We operate with highly structured centralized systems ensuring that our support staff administrative teams and premises departments are fully integrated respected and valued across the wider academy.

• Strategic Financial Leadership: Lead the development monitoring and execution of the schools annual budget in close alignment with the School Development Plan (SDP). Manage monthly payroll cash-flow forecasting procurement benchmarking and tender negotiations to ensure strict adherence to ESFA/LA regulations and achieve maximum best value across all service contracts.

• Estates Compliance & Safety Oversight: Line-manage the premises team and monitor the maintenance of the academys physical assets. Oversee statutory compliance filesincluding fire safety asbestos legionella and electrical testingand advise the Headteacher and Governing Board on risk assessments and health and safety legislation.

• Support Staff Team Management: Direct motivate and manage the administrative finance and site operations teams. Standardize high-quality administrative procedures design efficient digital communications and coordinate professional development and performance appraisals for all non-teaching staff.

• HR Administration & Safeguarding Compliance: Oversee the administrative execution of safer recruitment pre-employment screening and contract generation. Partner with the Headteacher to meticulously maintain the schools Single Central Record (SCR) ensuring complete inspection-ready compliance with all statutory safeguarding standards.

• Income Generation & Lettings: Drive school income generation by identifying grant-funding opportunities managing community lettings of our premium facilities and optimizing resources to support both academy budgets and local community initiatives.

• Qualifications: A recognized professional qualification in School Business Management (such as DSBM CSBM or equivalent Level 4/5 qualification) or a relevant professional degree/qualification in Accountancy Business Administration or Human Resources.

• Operational Experience: Proven successful experience managing complex budgets financial systems estate operations and diverse support teams ideally within an educational public sector or high-footfall organizational environment.

• Strategic & Collaborative Ethos: Outstanding communication analytical and digital systems skills possessing the leadership capacity and hands-on approach required to balance high-level financial strategy with day-to-day practical problem solving as part of a busy senior leadership team.

• An Academically Prestigious North London Borough Connecting Communities: Based in the historically significant and culturally diverse London Borough of Barnet the school capitalizes on an exceptional regional identity defined by a reputation for outstanding academic standards leafy suburban spaces and a thriving local economy. Blending highly desirable residential neighbourhoods with progressive multicultural town centres Barnet provides a fantastic real-world landscape for strategic school management. Operating within this highly collaborative educational network allows the School Business Manager to connect directly with regional local authority frameworks local business partnerships and a deeply supportive community of local families.

• Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from premium North London transport infrastructure offering straightforward commuting routes via the strategic M1 motorway corridor the A406 North Circular Road and the A1. Public transit networks operate continuously via comprehensive Transport for London (TfL) bus networks and the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line. Additionally Thameslink rail connections link the borough effortlessly to St Pancras International Hertfordshire and the South East making the school highly accessible for commuting educational professionals across London and the Home Counties.

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