Join our vibrant school community as a Business Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation of our school.
In this crucial position, you'll provide essential corporate services and comprehensive administrative support to the Principal, driving the effective management of daily operations and strategic initiatives.
If you're passionate about creating a thriving educational environment and possess a talent for streamlining administrative processes, we invite you to bring your expertise to our team and make a lasting impact on our school's success.
This position is being offered in the Temporary Part-Time capacity (0.27FTE), 19 hours per fortnight.
About The Department Of Education
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity.
This starts with recruitment and selection.
The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary.
This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About Lochington State School
Built by the local community on a cattle property in 1951, Lochington State School is a small rural school situated in the Central Highlands Region of Queensland.
We are located 125 kilometres south-west of Emerald and 75 kilometres west of Springsure.
Being a small school, our class is multi-aged.
Older students are encouraged to take leadership roles and all children work and play together, forming lifelong friendships, while aiming to improve their learning outcomes.
The distinctive feature of our small school is the importance placed upon individual learning, with Learning Plans and goals a priority for each child.
Our curriculum has a strong Literacy and Numeracy focus, and Higher Order Thinking Skills are incorporated in all areas of our learning.
These are designed to develop active problem solving strategies and independence in learning, fulfilling our school motto 'Learn for Life'.
Students are encouraged to take pride in all tasks and accept responsibility for their own learning and behaviour.
About The Role
Responsibilities include:
Operate autonomously to undertake day to day office procedures within well-defined policies (e.g.
reception, arranging appointments, correspondence, maintaining school records and general administration); and utilise information and management systems (e.g.
OneSchool) to support effective and efficient reporting and administration.Undertake the day to day supervision and management of school support staff, including monitoring workloads and performance (working in collaboration with the Principal for any difficult performance management situations); identifying workforce capability requirements; and role modelling performance standards.Oversee the signatories/approval of timesheets, leave applications, rosters, and arrange relief for school support staff; and organise, undertake and coordinate the recruitment, induction and training of school support staff.Assist the Principal with the preparation of the school budget and administer day to day financial matters (i.e.
accounts payable/receivable, corporate card monitoring, reconciliations, banking).
Input and export data to/from OneSchool for the Principal, to assist with budgeting and financial management.Assist the Principal with the management and coordination of school resources, assets and facilities (e.g.
maintaining the asset register, organising repairs, facilities and grounds maintenance, planning and review of minor works etc.
), engage external advice where appropriate and offer problem resolution support.Arrange technical support/maintenance as required with regard to the operation of computers, iPads, digital whiteboards, scanning and other technology/equipment.Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position. Interested?
To Apply: Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace.
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