School Business Manager

Job Title: School Business Manager Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes DBS Check Level: Enhanced Child List Hourly rate: £25.41 Contract Type: Fixed Term Full time/Part Time: Part Time Term Time only post: Yes Advert Closing Date: 08/11/2026 Job Overview Our School Business Manager (SBM) plays a pivotal leadership role in ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the school’s business, administrative, financial, and operational functions.

Working closely with the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team, the SBM leads non-teaching activities including finance, human resources, health and safety, communications, data management, compliance, facilities management, and organisational change. The role enables school leaders to focus on teaching and learning by providing strategic business support, overseeing support staff and contracted services, managing budgets and resources, driving continuous improvement, and fostering engagement with parents, staff, pupils, and the wider community to support the school's overall success and development.

Our School Business Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership across the school’s business and support functions, ensuring that financial, human, physical, and administrative resources are managed effectively, efficiently, and in compliance with relevant regulations and policies. Working as a key member of the senior leadership team, the postholder supports the delivery of the school’s vision and priorities by leading business operations, managing budgets and resources, overseeing support services, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring that the school provides a safe, sustainable, and well-managed environment that enables pupils and staff to achieve their full potential.

Please note this role is 20 hours per week on a fixed term contract of 24 months. For more information, or an informal discussion, please contact Headtecher Maria Mc. Cool . Job Description Click here to view the full job description. Competencies Click here to view the competencies. Jersey Public Service Careers Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers.

We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career. To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements.

This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community. For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks. Extraordinary, every day.