About Us
At Sompting Village Primary School, we are currently seeking to appoint an experienced School Business Manager (or an applicant who possesses the appropriate skill set for a School Business Manager role) to join and lead our friendly, caring and diligent school office team from September 2026.
We are looking for a School Business Manager who will understand the ethos of our school (an ethos where we expect everyone to “Be Their Best” and endorse Sompting’s A, B, C of Ambition, Bravery and Care). We are seeking a School Business Manager who will support this through their empathetic, communicative, yet driven leadership of the school office team alongside the organised, efficient and impactful application of their own role.
The applicant must be a dedicated, thoughtful, driven, hardworking individual who has a passion for and believes in the difference they can and will make to the children, staff and community of our school. They will need to be a patient, caring and positive individual in order to match our welcoming, inclusive, calm and friendly ethos.
The successful candidate will be provided with an environment in which they can continue to develop professionally, and where their voice is heard through an open, positive, respectful atmosphere, where strong relationships between staff, pupils and families are at the root of everything.
They will be working in a collegiate, ambitious, community-based atmosphere - and one in which a sense of humour is warmly welcomed! – through which everyone is striving to be their best and where staff want the very best for every child. The candidate will need – and be supported - to be appropriately independent yet a team-player, determined, reflective, adaptable and resilient.
Job Details
Salary: Grade 10
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
Working Pattern: Term-time only
Location: Sompting Village Primary School
Interviews: week commencing 6th July
What You Need to Succeed
The school business manager is a key role within our school, supporting the strategic and operational leadership of the school’s business functions, including (though not an exhaustive list) its finance, administration, safeguarding, premises and health and safety standards. The candidate will need to provide financial/budgetary management and efficacy, provide for and support the safety and safeguarding of all, and play a leading role in the legal and expected compliancy of Sompting Village Primary School. They will need to work effectively under pressure and not only adhere to but achieve deadlines.
Further Information
Sompting Village Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; the governing board expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Any offer of employment will be subject to
- a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure
- the receipt of satisfactory references
- a satisfactory pre-employment medical questionnaire
- evidence of relevant original ID
- evidence of right to work in the UK documentation
- evidence of qualifications required for the role
- successful applicants who have lived overseas will also be required to provide a certificate of good conduct.
We conduct online searches (not including social media) for shortlisted candidates. This check is undertaken based on the requirements set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025. This helps us to ensure safe and robust checks on the suitability of individuals to work within our school.
How to Apply
Visits to the school are encouraged. Please contact the school office on 01903 204627 or email [email protected] should you wish to meet us ahead of submitting an application.
For further details and an application form, please see the attachments accompanying this advertisement, or visit our website: www.somptingvillageprimary.co.uk
Please return either a hard copy of your completed application form in a sealed envelope addressed to Katie Parker, Sompting Village Primary School, White Styles Road, Sompting, West Sussex BN15 0BU or an electronic version of your completed application form via email to Katie Parker in our school office: [email protected]
Job Reference: SCHO02652
