Vacancies

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Working Hours:       Full Time,  37 hours per week.

Salary:                       Grade 17, £51515 - £52563 (pay award pending)

Contract:                   Permanent, all year round.

Required From:        1st January 2025

Report to:                  CEO of the Trust and Board of Trustees

The Sycamore CE Trust are seeking to appoint an experienced and qualified finance professional to join our trust as a key member of our executive leadership team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a value-driven Trust at an exciting stage of our development.

You should be a driven, dedicated, flexible and experienced leader and approach work with a positive attitude, honesty, confidentiality, and integrity. Ideally, your experience will be from an education or public service background. You either have or are willing to obtain a recognised accounting qualification such as ICAEW, CIPFA, CIMA. 

The successful candidate will be able to contribute to the development and implementation of strategy and policy to support the delivery of the Trust’s strategic objectives. You will be responsible for providing strategic management and leadership of the central finance function and statutory reporting requirements. As part of our growth, you will play a key role in the tender and implementation of systems centrally and will oversee any other operational function dependent on expertise. As such, you should have demonstrable experience of developing and delivering proactive, customer focused services and implementing change.

This role is directly responsible to the Chief Executive, who is the accounting officer for the Trust, and is ultimately responsible for the proper financial conduct of the institution. The CFO will provide advice on strategic financial issues, ensure the financial health of our organisation and realise the financial opportunities that we have within our Trust. 

If you would like to play a significant role in building and delivering an outstanding finance service for our Trust, we would very much like to hear from you. For a detailed conversation about the post, please email recruitment@thesycamoretrust.co.uk to arrange an informal discussion with our CEO, Mr Ian Young.

Full details of this role can be found in the job description and the person specification located within the Recruitment Pack. This can be found under the side menu titled CFO Recruitment Pack. A Word version of the Application Form can be requested by emailing recruitment@thesycamoretrust.co.uk

Application Closing Date: 9am, Friday 27th September 2024

Interview Date: Monday 7th October 2024 

Please note that we do not accept CVs. 

Administrative Assistant at Holy Trinity CE Primary School, part of The Sycamore CE Trust

Working Hours:     30 hours per week, term time only

Base:                       Holy Trinity CE Primary School, Cecil Street, Bury, BL9 0SB

Grade:                     5

Hours:                     30 hours per week, term time only: £16,174 per annum)

Contract:                Permanent

Required From:     ASAP

The Sycamore Church of England Trust are seeking to appoint a proactive and highly organised administrator to join our Trust, based at Holy Trinity CE Primary School.

You will be expected to provide routine general administrative and financial support to the school. As first point of contact you will provide an efficient and professional front of house service for the school, whether face to face, over email or telephone. You should have experience in operating online systems or have the necessary skills to be able to learn and become highly confident in the use of multiple systems (for example, our MIS system, website, absence monitoring etc). Confident and proficient in the use of Microsoft applications you will produce letters, reports, and operate relevant packages such as excel to a high standard.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Trust within a vital and varied role. Whilst school experience is desirable, this is an ideal prospect to apply previous administrative experience within an education setting where your role will impact upon raising outcomes for children.

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact either Emma McCormick or Alison Knott on 0161 764 2993.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks, including references.

A word version of our application form is available on Greater jobs or can be requested by emailing recruitment@thesycamoretrust.co.uk

All application forms should be emailed to recruitment@thesycamoretrust.co.uk by 9am on Monday 23rd September 2024.

Please note that no CVs will be accepted.

Shortlisting will take place Monday 23rd September with interviews scheduled Monday 30th September.

For further information please see the following documents, available on Greater Jobs website:

•  Recruitment Pack including job description and person specification

•  Application Form

•  Privacy notice

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment.

Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted. The above post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services.