EOI - Business Manager - Buderim Mountain State School

Queensland Department of Education; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Buderim Mountain State School, supported by Queensland Department of Education, seeks an experienced Business Manager (AO6) to lead corporate services and advise the Principal.

You will manage finance, HR, facilities and administration, drive workforce planning, budgeting, asset management and service improvements.

This temporary appointment provides professional leadership within a large, historical school on the Sunshine Coast with strong ties to the Buderim community.

Qualifications

• AO6 leadership level with responsibilities across finance, HR, facilities, and administration.
• Experience delivering strategic corporate services in a school or public sector.
• Ability to lead workforce planning and complex budgeting.
• Strong governance, policy compliance, and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice to the Principal and management team on corporate services.
• Lead development and delivery of finance, HR, facilities and admin services.
• Oversee workforce planning, recruitment, induction and performance management.
• Manage school budgets, financial reporting and compliance.
• Direct facilities management, asset registers and maintenance programs.

Job description

EOI - Business Manager - Buderim Mountain State School

Queensland Department of Education – North Coast QLD

The Business Manager is an AO6 leadership role responsible for strategic corporate services across Buderim Mountain State School, providing advice to the Principal and schoolmanagement team across finance, HR, facilities, administration and resource management.

The role leads support-staff workforce planning and HR processes, managesfinancial operations and budgets, oversees facilities and assets, drives business and process improvement, and uses systems and technology to improve service delivery.

This temporary vacancy is open to Expressions of Interest and any extensions to this appointment will not exceed 12 months.

About us:

Buderim Mountain State School is a large primary school with over 1,000 students and more than 100 years of history, with a strong reputation for educational excellence and individualised learning. The school offers extensive facilities and extracurricular programs across its 14-acre grounds, including air-conditioned Wi-Fi classrooms, multiple playgrounds, a heated swimming pool, tennis courts and a large oval, while maintaining a strong connection with the local Buderim community.

Your opportunity:

As the Business Manager, you will:

• Provide regular strategic advice and manage the development and delivery of a range of corporate services in accordance with department policy. In line with the school workforce plan as determined by the Principal, lead and inspire the direction setting, development of services, enhancement of school support staff skills and supervision of a diverse and multidisciplinary support staff workforce.


• Actively participate in school management team decision making processes with regard to the provision of corporate services to support school operations and seek out opportunities to challenge existing business services processes, recommending alternative approaches that drive process improvement.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Demonstrate considerable autonomy and play an important role in providing advice which dictates business service delivery outcomes, inspires change and models best practice. Manage conflicting priorities to ensure strategic and sustainable business services outcomes.


• Work in a specialised environment, requiring the development of operational methods, policies, practices and standards to support the school's administrative function, and where problem resolution is frequent (demanding the conceptualisation, identification and development of ideas, detailed analysis of alternative courses of action and devising action plans to overcome the challenges of a complex school environment).


• Lead and manage human resources for school support staff (through the identification of emerging talent, promotion of excellent performance outcomes and mentoring individuals to achieve their professional potential); and oversee a breadth of activities (e.g. recruitment, induction, training, vacancy processing, skill gap analysis, performance management, rehabilitation processes). In collaboration with the Principal, lead change management and provide strategic workforce planning (e.g. identify future staff skill requirements and transformational future workforce trends, organise skills development and mentoring to ensure appropriate level of capacity available in the present and future). Provide strategic solutions to human resources issues that are routine and non-routine in nature.


• Manage, monitor and deliver financial processes, including preparation and reviewing of the school budget and performance reporting. Provide specialised financial management advice and strategies; oversee financial activities and ensure compliance with legislation and policy. Work with the Principal to advise on, and recommend changes to existing financial practices based on financial analysis and research into best practice.


• Lead the management, building and maintenance of school facilities and resources for Direct to Market schools, and project manage as required. Advise the Principal, school management team and school community on facilities issues (e.g. manage the Minor Works, grounds maintenance, and grounds improvement budgets; negotiate with external contractors; oversee school maintenance and asset registers).

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applicants need to be a current Queensland Government employee to be eligible to apply.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.