About the School:
Nestled in the vibrant city of Cairns, the Cairns School of Distance Education caters to home-based and school-based learners from prep to year 12. Our mission is to excel in education for every student by offering individualised support in a flexible and dynamic manner. We focus on an individualised curriculum, high levels of educational support, and close professional relationships with student.

About the Role:
The Business Manager - Partnerships manages service delivery to support student enrolments and activities, marketing, parent liaison and front-of-house officers.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Undertake the day to day supervision, management of, and continuous improvement processes for Enrolments, Student Activities, Marketing and Concierge.
• Enrolments: Policy interpretation, student enrolment management, student invoicing, payments, refunds, debt management, data systems, form management, and quality assurance processes.
• Student Activities: Coordinate logistics for excursions, camps, mini-schools and other school events. Monitor and advise on suitable locations for student activities, and oversee resource/equipment management used for student activities.
• Marketing: Oversee newsletters, social media, website, publications, branding, merchandise and student and staff uniforms including School Calendar Management
• Concierge: Client service interactions and timelines
• Provide a comprehensive range of administrative support (e.g. preparation of reports, and correspondence) and identify problems, conduct research, seek expert advice, recommend solutions.
• Undertake the day to day supervision and management of school support staff, including monitoring workloads and performance (working in collaboration with the Deputy Principal for any difficult performance management situations); identifying workforce capability requirements; and role modelling performance standards. In addition, this role will oversee for school support staff the signatories/approval of timesheets, leave applications, rosters, arrange relief; and organise, undertake and coordinate the recruitment, induction and training of school support staff.
• Operates autonomously within a sector of the school's business services, requiring interpretation of policy and procedures, information and adaptation of processes in a complex environment.

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 1-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).
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