Business Manager
Harrow School
Harrow
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- To be confirmed
- Apply by:
- 31 October 2024
Job overview
Contract length: Permanent, although a year's fixed term contract will be considered
Working weeks: Full time, all year round
Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Ever since it was founded over 450 years ago by John Lyon, Harrow School, John Lyon School and the Harrow International Schools have been providing industry-leading educational opportunities to pupils from around the world. John Lyon’s Foundation is the umbrella organisation that oversees the Corporation’s schools and its charitable entities.
The role: The Business Manager works with the CFCO to assess opportunities for the Corporation to generate additional income to support its charitable purposes and monitor potential business risks and mitigations. You will analyse business cases, provide board presentations on business opportunities and provide insights on assets, resources and funds. You will manage the Corporation’s register of contracts and procurement activity and progress commercial discussions with the Foundation’s General Counsel. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to the advertisement.
The skills: This role will suit a candidate with demonstrable experience gained in a leading strategy or management practice, or in a corporate development role in a regulated sector. With a strong interest in the independent school and charitable sector and a flair for innovation, you will relish the opportunity to identify business opportunities for the Corporation. Your accomplished written communication skills will enable you to compile concise, compelling board reports that contain accurate and relevant commercial analyses. You will build strong collaborative relationships throughout the organisation promoting best practice and forward thinking.
The benefits include:
- Free lunch.
- Automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme.
- Salary sacrifice scheme.
- Use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
- Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
For any questions email the HR department at recruitment@harrowschool.org.uk
Closing date: 31 October 2024.
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, so early application is recommended.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.
The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.
Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”
“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”
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