Vice Principal - Finance and Corporate Services
Blackburn College
Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Circa £110,000 + benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2015
Job overview
Blackburn College has a reputation for academic excellence built on a passion for learning, talented staff, outstanding resources and unswerving commitment to the learner. The College is outstanding in so many ways, from recent Ofsted reports and service excellence, to its entrepreneurial mindset, unique sixth form proposition and University Centre, ensuring a compelling and trusted learning environment. With a clear focus on raising educational standards and student aspirations, the College is well placed to advance in today’s changing educational landscape and is now seeking an experienced and commercially orientated finance and corporate services leader.
Reporting to the Principal and Chief Executive, the Vice Principal will be a core member of the Executive Team and help shape the future direction of the College. On a day-to-day basis the role has responsibility for managing a broad spectrum of services including finance, HR and OD, estates and facilities, management information and marketing amongst others. A key focus will be on strategic and financial planning, delivering continuous improvement and evolving the business development strategy and funding streams to maximise efficiencies for sustainable growth.
The successful applicant will be a qualified finance professional with a wealth of strategic experience, ideally gained within a highly complex and diverse environment. With a proven track record of providing inspirational leadership to a range of functions, you will have outstanding analytical and commercial skills enabling you to contribute broadly to strategic planning and supporting growth. You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the capacity to engage at all levels internally and externally, addressing complex strategic challenges through deliverable business solutions.
For more information on this role and how to apply, please visit http://www.wickland-westcott.co.uk/current-positions/vice-principal-lancashire/
For a confidential discussion, please call our retained consultants Nick Roberts or John Dodd on 01625 508100.
Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 9th March 2015.
About Blackburn College
- Blackburn College
- Feilden Street, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB2 1LH
- United Kingdom
Blackburn College is a further and higher education college in Lancashire. As of the most recent inspection there were over 11,000 students on the school roll. A new state of the art Sports facility and Regional Automotive Technology Hub opened in onsite in 2014 at a combined worth of £19 million. The area of Blackburn with Darwen has a population of 150,000, and is 25 miles north of Manchester. There are over 3000 students studying degrees at Blackburn College, which are primarily awarded by Lancaster University. The college’s vision statement is ‘aspiring, innovating and achieving together’.
Principal
Dr Thomas Moore
Values and vision
Blackburn College works very closely with employers across Pennine Lancashire and beyond, supporting them in developing a world class workforce and being competitive in a global marketplace. This endeavour is central to its mission as an Educational Institution driven by vocational and academic excellence, working hard to become an indispensable partner to business; and importantly exercising the college’s civic engagement responsibilities.
At the core of the college’s ethos is deliver quality education, training, employability and work-based learning solutions to thousands of organisations and learners. This includes Government funded and commercial skills training and education, bespoke professional courses, employability services and regional training contracts.
Ofsted
“Achievement and standards are outstanding. Overall success, retention and achievement rates increased rapidly over the last three years. Success rates are high and exceed the national averages for similar colleges for all key indicators. Retention rates have also increased. GCE A level students make outstanding progress.”
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