Business Manager

• How you have used your financial acumen, skills and experience to manage budgets with limited financial resources.

  (Consider and demonstrate, how you ensured the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial information and analysis to manage budgets for managers and external customers.)

• Describe your ability to build strong working relationships and build capacity through inspiring and motivating others.

  (Consider and demonstrate your ability to lead, manage and support staff, including utilising policies including change management/workforce change, learning and development and absence management.)

• Ways in which you have demonstrated your ability to embrace technology and information to influence and make improvements.

  (Consider how you have encouraged new ideas, used technology to enhance delivery of outcomes or streamlined processes.)

• Demonstrate how you have led strategic change to bring about an improvement which has benefited the organisation.

  (Consider what skills and knowledge you used to lead a change initiative and the role you played.)

Job Details

We are looking for a highly skilled individual to be part of the Primary Business Manager team, who is passionate about improving life chances for all through commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positives outcomes for our children and young people.

As a manager in Fife you will be responsible for supporting a cluster of primary, nursery and special schools, supporting the strategic direction of the schools, implementing and pursuing the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self-improving system across the education community and beyond.

The Business Manager role will manage functions within schools to ensure a high-quality support service, strategic planning, and accountability in the context of statutory, council and school policy. To participate as a member of Education Service Directorate Operations Team, working as a critical business conduit between the school, the directorate and other services and partners.

The Business Manager role profile is included within the advert where you will find more information about the role, with specific reference to essential and desirable criteria for applicants.

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements

• Educated to SCQF Level 9, which includes a degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline e.g. Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Administration.
• Considerable experience within a relevant environment, in a senior or managerial role with budget and management responsibilities to enable you to provide effective advice and support to the Headteacher.
• You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to contribute to the leadership and management of the school community, both at strategic and operational levels, to ensure continuous improvement.

Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

Further Information

• Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile [https://www.fife.gov.uk/__data/assets/file/0016/40264/Business-Manager-A5411.pdf]
• How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters [https://www.fife.gov.uk/__data/assets/file/0014/40127/OD12-How-We-Work-Matters-Framework-2.pdf] behaviour framework for more information.
• Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
• Directorate Information - Council Department information [https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/council-and-democracy/council-departments#xd_co_f=MzBlNmFkMDAtYzRiZi00OTgyLWI3MjUtM2MxZWU1OWIwODQx~]
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We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time.