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Information for Applicants
Introduction
Working at Wyke
Application for the Post of: Vice Principal – Finance, Resources and Systems
Thank you for your interest in the above post. I hope you find the following information useful, and
that you are encouraged to apply. Please note the closing date for received applications is 9am
Monday 17th May 2021.
Included in this pack is some information about the College, an outline job description and a person
specification.
For further details and to access the application portal please see below or visit www.wyke.ac.uk/
about-wyke/staff-vacancies. If you have any queries about applying for the role, please contact
personnel@wyke.ac.uk, or call 01482 346347.
https://vportal.wyke.ac.uk/
The College is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. The successful applicant
will be required to disclose any criminal convictions and agree to a check being made through the
Disclosure and Barring Service. Please note that any eventual offer of employment will be made
provisional subject to receipt of satisfactory DBS, health and reference checks.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the interest that you have shown in this post.
Yours sincerely
Jenny Anderson
H.R. Manager
2Working at Wyke
Wyke is a successful and highly ambitious Sixth Form College whose aim is to be the
best college in the country. We are an established, popular College with an
outstanding reputation in the locality. The college draws students from Kingston-Upon
-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and further afield. The largest and one of the most
successful A-level provider in the area, we offer applicants the opportunity to work
alongside committed colleagues who have enabled our students to achieve high levels
of success. At Wyke we put the student first and all decisions centre around staff
working together to meet their best interests.
We currently have over 2200 students and over 200 members of staff. We offer a wide
range of A-level courses as well as some highly successful BTEC courses, both those
equivalent to one, two and three A-levels, and a small number of GCSEs.
Each A-level, GCSE or BTEC is allocated 4 x 70 minute lessons and a full time teacher
will teach 5 of these ‘blocks’. The teaching day begins at 9a.m. and finishes at 4p.m.
On some mornings full staff or faculty briefings are held at 8.45a.m. to keep staff up to
date with what is happening around the college and allow a time for them to catch up
with each other.
We have an excellent team of staff and their continuing professional development is a
priority at Wyke. The approach for this was recently revised so that members of staff
fall into one of a number of development strands e.g. ‘Aspiring Leaders’, ‘Lead
Learners’, ‘Pastoral’, ‘Administrative’. Some development activities take place on one
of the four Development Days spread across the year while other sessions are during
afternoon workshops or independent activity which happens whenever is convenient
for the staff members involved. Our plan is that every member of staff will have an
entitlement to a significant amount of development every year and we also offer a
system for people to log that development, including any activities undertaken
independently.
We offer a welcoming college with supportive management and a strong team
atmosphere as well as a modern environment. We are lucky to work with great
students who are here to learn and have chosen their subjects so standards of
behaviour are high.
Teachers are members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and support staff the Local
Government Pension Scheme, unless they opt out. Our teaching pay scale is very
similar to the school scale, with Responsibility Allowances performing a similar
function to TLRs. We also have a Cycle to Work Scheme.
3Job Description
Job Title: Vice Principal – Finance, Resources and Systems
Status of Post: The post of Vice-Principal has been designated as a senior post by the
Corporation, the College’s governing body. Under section 3(1)(e) of the
Articles of Government, the Corporation is responsible for the appointment,
grading, suspension, dismissal and determination of the pay and conditions
of ser-vice of the holders of senior posts.
Postholder’s Name:
Reporting to : The Principal for day-to-day line management, the Corporation for
contractual issues.
Member of:
Senior Leadership Team
College Leadership Team
Working and Development Groups from time to time as necessary
Attends:
Corporation
Corporation Sub-Committees as designated by the Principal
Represents College at:
Such meetings with partner and other organisations, determined from time
to time, as are relevant to your responsibilities.
Overall Purpose: You have responsibility for ensuring that the college is financially secure
and has the right resources and systems in place to deliver exceptional
education for all of our students. Your role is to take a strategic view on all
matters relating to finance, resources and systems, developing these as
best in class examples supporting our vision of being the best sixth form
provider in the country. You will look for opportunities to secure increased
funding whilst keeping tight control of our current budgets to enable us to
continue to invest. You will manage our current resources to ensure they
are fit for pur-pose, sustainable and safe. You will ensure that systems are
intuitive, smooth and efficient. Systems should only exist to make the work
more effective.
You share responsibility with the Principal, Senior Leadership Team and
Corporation for planning the direction and focus of the College’s work and
you help to determine and meet operational objectives which serve the
achievement of that direction and focus. Taking responsibility for the areas
set out below, you act as line manager for staff filling roles in these aspects
of the College’s work.
You are designated as a senior post-holder under the terms of the
Instruments and Articles of Governance.
Policy and Procedure: Inherent in this job description is an expectation that you will observe and
implement the agreed policies and procedures of the College, including
Health and Safety, safeguarding, performance management and promoting
equality of opportunity.
4Job Description (cont.)
Key Duties
Membership of • Contribute to strategic decision making for the college
SLT
• Represent and uphold the college values
• Deliver the strategic plan
• Lead others for excellence, both within your areas of responsibility and
beyond, setting high expectations and providing high levels of support
Communication • Oversee, review and continuously improve the processes of communication
and Reporting: between all relevant groups and individuals concerning the collective and
individual progress of students and effective performance improvements
within the College.
• Report to relevant committees and the Corporation on matters arising from
your role.
• Ensure effective communication to staff of procedures, developments and
college processes that affect them.
• Liaise with partners including providers of 14+, post-16 and Higher Education.
Specific areas of Finance
Responsibility
• Funding – oversee funding claims and manage income.
• Financial management and reporting – maintain effective financial controls
and oversee the production of the annual budget, management accounts and
financial statements.
• Risk management – manage the college’s risk register.
• Audit – coordinate both internal and external audit processes.
Resources
• Premises and facilities – strategic leadership of premises, cleaning, catering
and transport functions.
• IT support – oversight of the development and maintenance of in-house
systems, forward facing support for staff and students, and the maintenance
and improvement of college infrastructure.
• Health and safety – overall responsibility for meeting Health and Safety
requirements
• Estates Strategy including sustainability agenda - development and
delivery of our estates strategy with mind to sustainability issues.
Systems
• Exams – Oversight of the exams function ensuring it meets JCQ guidelines
and delivers smooth running of all exam series both external and internal.
• MIS – Oversight of the ILR, student record management, data protection,
GDPR and FOI.
• Central services – Oversight of Reception, Reprographics and the delivery of
general administration for the college.
• Curriculum planning, timetabling and enrolment – Coordination of planning
processes to ensure an efficient and effective curriculum model.
Location : Wyke Sixth Form College
Remuneration: As determined by Corporation
Teaching: As determined by the Principal
Hours: Full time
5Job Description
Educational methods: Advising and co-operating with the Principal and other teachers (or any
one or more of them) on the preparation and development of courses of
study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and
assessment and pastoral arrangements.
Discipline, health and Maintaining good order and discipline among the students, safeguarding
safety: their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on the College
premises and when they are engaged in authorised College activities
elsewhere.
Staff meetings: Participating in meetings at the College which relate to the curriculum for
the College or the administration or organisation of the College, including
pastoral arrangements.
Cover: Supervising and so far as practicable teaching any students whose teacher
is not available to teach them:
Provided that no teacher shall be required to provide such cover:
a) after the teacher who is absent or otherwise not available has been so
for three or more consecutive working days; or
where the fact that the teacher would be absent or otherwise not available
for a period exceeding three consecutive working days was known to
the college for two or more working days before the absence
commenced; unless:
i) she/he is a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of
providing such cover (‘a supply teacher’); or
ii) the college have exhausted all reasonable means of providing a
supply teacher to provide cover without success; or
iii) she/he is a full-time teacher at the college but has been assigned
by the Principal in the timetable to teach or carry out other
specified duties (except cover) for less than 75 per cent of those
hours in the week during which students are taught at the
college.
Public examinations: Participating in arrangements for preparing students for public
examinations and in assessing students for the purposes of such
examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating
in arrangements for students’ presentation for and supervision during such
examinations.
Management: a) contributing to the selection for appointment and professional
development of other teachers and support staff, including the induction
and assessment of new and probationary teachers;
b) co-ordinating or managing the work of other staff;
c) Taking such part as may be required of you in the review, development
and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation
and pastoral functions of the College.
Administration: a) participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such
duties as are described above, including the management or
supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the College
and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials;
b) attending assemblies, registering the attendance of students and
supervising students, whether these duties are to be performed before,
during or after College sessions.
6Personal Specification
ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE
Qualifications
Educated to degree level or equivalent
Professional chartered accountancy qualification
Leadership qualification or evidence of leadership/management training or develop-
ment
Health and safety or estates-related qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Previous experience of successful strategic leadership and operational management,
including complex planning
Experience of leading teams to deliver high performance
Experience of effectively managing considerable resources and budgets through
others to deliver high quality services, long-term financial sustainability and
outstanding value for money
Experience of successfully managing numerous work streams with evidence of clear
delivery of outcomes
Experience of designing, implementing and improving significant systems
Experience of developing successful partnerships within and beyond the organisation
Experience of managing estates/facilities functions including responsibility for Health
and Safety and/or managing transport provision
Experience of successfully leading and managing people through organisational
change
Experience of designing and using complex spreadsheets/databases
A sound understanding of the current and future issues and policies that impact on
post-16 education
Awareness of Information Systems and maximising their contribution within
organisations
Understanding of issues relating to creating sustainable organisations that minimise
their impact on the environment
Skills and Abilities
Clear evidence of leadership for high achievement and ability to resolve competing
tensions within recent activity
Possession of excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to
translate complex issues into comprehensible format
Ability to evaluate strategic options, assess risks, participate in decision making and
deliver complex organisational strategies
The ability to negotiate effectively, achieving best value at every opportunity
The ability to develop positive working relationships with individuals at all levels
The ability to delegate effectively and manage the performance of others
Excellent I.T. skills and advanced data skills
Personal Qualities
Drive
Ambition for the College
Probity
A commitment to the promotion of safeguarding and equality of opportunity
throughout all aspects of College life
7Further Information Contact
Wyke Sixth Form College
Bricknell Avenue
Hull
HU5 4NT
01482 346 347
#WeAreWyke
@wykesfc
@WykeSixthFormCollege
@WykeCollege
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