WARWICK INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Job Description
• Provide effective leadership to ensure that diverse departments work together as a cohesive team. • Manage events and lettings of all Foundation facilities, both within the Foundation schools and to the wider local community. • Promote the commercial and community use of Foundation facilities in line with the Foundation’s lettings strategy. • Develop effective mechanisms to gather feedback from users, as part of a system of continuous improvement. Strategy You will: • Prepare written reports for Governors and Senior Leaders regarding projects, strategy, budgets and other matters as required. • Lead on the development and delivery of a Foundation wide community use and commercial lettings strategy, supporting the goals of the overall Foundation Strategy.
The challenge of the role is managing a trade-off between the schools’ resource requirements for delivering their educational provision, the Foundation’s commitment to supporting the local community through sharing resources, and the Foundation’s need to use its assets appropriately to generate profit to support its educational mission. This is a new role which reports to the Foundation Bursar, working in close partnership with our school teams across the Foundation. The postholder will be a member of the Foundation’s Shared Services Management Team and will be involved in and contribute to general Foundation business, strategy and development Overall Responsibilities You will be responsible for the management of all school events as well as all external lettings
Budget Management You will:
Line Management of: • Food Operations team; • Conference team; • Community Activities team; • Sports Centre teams; and • Theatre team
• Have oversight of Hospitality and Leisure budgets. • Have budgetary control of the operational departments, ensuring that all departments are actively engaged in the annual financial planning cycle, and have a good understanding of budgets, forecasts and variances. • Identify and implement efficiency savings across all operational departments within your control.
You will: • Manage, develop and motivate senior staff in each department to ensure high functioning teams, conducting regular reviews of staff performance to ensure that individuals and teams are operating to deliver the Foundation’s broader strategic priorities.
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