Queens College Qatar - Business Manager

Welcome

The Business Manager will be a key leadership position supporting in establishing Queen’s College. Located in the heart of Doha, Qatar, we are the newest private international school in the Artemis Education group. Artemis Education is committed to fostering a network of schools where a community spirit is paramount to cultivate, challenge, and celebrate our youth.

Queen’s College is set to offer the National Curriculum of England, and is accredited by COBIS, the largest premier global association for British schools overseas. More than just rigorous and academic, our approach encompasses the ‘Whole Child,’ ensuring that students are not only well-prepared academically but also for life beyond the classroom.

Our school will be steered by leaders who are both strong and ethically driven and who will actively promote mutual respect, equality, cultural awareness, empathy towards global issues, and a collaborative work ethic. Through our values we will inspire a love of learning, deep-thinking scholarship and an inner drive for realising talent. Our values foster a sense of responsibility, a commitment to helping others and a determination to make a difference.

The Business Manager will be fundamental in supporting me in establishing the college. They will support the delivery of our priorities to the education, well-being, happiness, and personal development of every student in our community.

Nicola Maytum
Founding Principal

About us

About Queen’s College Qatar

Queen’s College Qatar, Artemis Education’s latest international school opening in Qatar in September 2024.

Covering an area of 45,000 square metres, facilities will include separate but fully connected Early Years, Primary and Secondary schools, with specialist science, digital coding and FAB Labs, music suite, drama studio, art and exhibition spaces and a 650-seat theatre. Serving the school and the community from a dedicated Sports Centre, sporting facilities will include a 25-metre competition pool and training pool, a professional standard indoor basketball stadium, gym and fitness studios, indoor and outdoor football pitches and athletics provision, all on a well-landscaped campus.

Our cutting-edge campus has been created around the way our students learn, blending technology with intelligent design. Our high-quality flexible learning environments inspire reflection, deeper thinking, conversations, and inquiries, to satisfy curiosity and answer the many questions that children have.

About Artemis Education

Our mission is to improve access to outstanding education by designing, delivering, opening, and then operating new schools. We combine the best educational traditions with cutting-edge education innovation.

Starting, literally, at the drawing board, we design our schools from the ground up to maximise the learning experience.

We deliver exceptional facilities, hire incredible staff, and then combine academic rigour with diversity of experience to enable our children to flourish.

Our schools focus on academic rigour, universal values, individual growth, and multi-faceted development to enable students to realise their full potential, build resilience and become responsible citizens of the world.

Focusing first and foremost on the individual child and their family we deliver internationally accredited curriculums enriched by a dynamic extracurricular experience. We graduate expressive, self-confident, and critically minded individuals, with a solid foundation to flourish in higher education or life.

Our schools combine inspirational facilities with student-centric design, world-class teaching staff who motivate and care for the students, and innovative technology that enhances the effectiveness of our teaching.
We build in quality at every level of the process, and provide our Principals with complete operational support. We are non-selective and inclusive.

We have an ambitious programme for further growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to meet the growing demand from parents seeking a high quality, international education.

Northview, our first school, opened in Doha, Qatar in September 2022. Our second school will open in September 2024.

The role

Business Manager (AQ2353)

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Job purpose

The Business Manager is a key member of the Senior Leadership team Queen’s College Qatar, Artemis Education’s latest International school opening in Qatar in September 2024. Reporting directly to the Principal, the Business Manager will be responsible for ensuring excellence in all aspects of the business of running the best school in the country.

Financial management

Prepare for approval by the Principal and Board the annual estimates of income and expenditure. Obtain agreement of budgets from the Principal/Board and monitor accounts against budgets.
Advise the Principal on financial policy, preparing appraisals for particular projects and developing a long-term financial strategy for the future development of the school.
Use financial management information, especially benchmarking, to identify areas of relative spending and advise the Principal accordingly.
Manage the school accounting function ensuring efficient operation according to agreed procedures.
Monitor all accounting procedures including:
- Payroll of staff.
- Ordering, processing and payment of all goods and services provided to the school.
- Operation of all bank accounts, ensuring a full reconciliation is undertaken once a month.
- Preparation of invoices and collection of fees and the recovery bad debts.
Resolve promptly any financial problems.
Oversee the preparation of detailed accounts for the Principal/Board and have the accounts audited annually.
Report on the financial state of the school to the Principal/Board informing them immediately of any exceptional problems.
Maximise income from lettings and extended school services.
Administer and maintain accurate petty cash records.

Health & safety management/risk management

Ensure effective risk management strategies are in place, for example in health and safety and in any third-party service contracts.
Know the elements of fire safety and the associated risks to the school through the process of risk management and ensure the facilities are compliant with Civil Defense regulations.
Know about Health and Safety regulations, particularly the main issues specific to the school and how they relate to students, staff, visitors, contractors and other users of the school premises and facilities.
Ensure all regular licenses are maintained and ensuring the school is fully compliant.

Facility, property & resource management

Negotiate, manage and monitor contracts, tenders and agreements, ensuring ‘best value’ at all times.
Appoint and oversee the work of the Facilities Management Company.
With the agreement of the Principal, manage the letting of the school premises to outside organizations and school staff, and the development of extended school activities with particular reference to the local community.
Ensure the school utilizes its resources through strategic planning, including consideration of all financial implications.
Produce timely and fully costed proposals and ensure they are sustainable, for example through five-year budgets.
Understand the implications of government policies and educational trends and developments and relay this appropriately to the Principal.

Human resources management

Be responsible for general personnel matters, including administration relating to staff recruitment, CRB and medical clearance of new staff and issuing contracts of employment.
Advise the Principal/Board on assessment of salaries, expenses, sickness and maternity procedures.
Maintain staff records and ensure that these records held in school are kept confidential.
Provide leadership and guidance for all non-classroom-based support staff, including line management responsibility.
Develop an understanding of the role and of the ICT manager and be responsible for the line management of this person.
Develop an understanding of the role of the Marketing and Admissions Department and be responsible for the line management of this department.
Manage the professional development, appraisal and training of all non-classroom-based support staff.

Administration responsibilities

Be responsible for archiving of both financial and personnel records.
Be responsible for the safe disposal of all archived records after the prescribed time scale.
Maintenance of an assets register.

Qualifications and skills

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (advanced) diploma.
Experience in a senior level position within a service-oriented industry.
Experience of start-up environment in the Middle East.
Expert knowledge of accounts and administrative procedures.
Fluent English communication skills (with a working knowledge of Arabic an advantage).

Competencies

Attention to detail
Time management
Multi-tasking
Ability to handle pressure
People influencer
Networking
Cultural sensitivity
Confidentiality

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Terms of appointment

This is a full time role, the working week will be Sunday to Thursday.

The package is competitive and will include accommodation.

How to apply

Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the College, an executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement.

The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 3rd January 2024.

Applications should consist of:

A covering letter setting out your interest in the role and details of how you match the criteria outlined in the person criteria.
Please include details of two referees, though please note that we will not approach referees without your prior consent and only should you be shortlisted.
A CV if applicable.

Should you wish to discuss the role(s) in strict confidence, please contact Hayley Mintern on hayley.mintern@andersonquigley.com, or +44 (0)7596 954 387 or Phil Gifford on phil.gifford@andersonquigley.com, or +44 (0)7743 936 121.