Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Education Support - Level 2, Range 6
Occupation: Administration
Location: Hume - Wodonga
Reference: 1510434
Highly developed interpersonal and leadership skills with proven experience in building and sustaining positive relationships across multiple campuses and diverse teams. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with students, staff, families and community members, including managing confidential and complex issues across geographically dispersed locations.
Demonstrated exemplary financial analysis, management and reporting skills, with a proven capacity to manage complex, multi-campus budgets and resources within the Student Resource Package framework. Ability to apply strategic financial oversight and business acumen to ensure consistency and accountability across multiple sites.
High-level understanding and application of CASES21 Finance and related school management systems, with the capacity to ensure data integrity, compliance, and consistent financial processes across multiple campuses.
Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate and support education support staff across multiple campuses, fostering collaboration and consistent practice. Proven capacity to manage remote teams, align campus operations, and provide clear guidance to ensure high-quality service delivery across all sites.
Proven capacity to provide strategic and operational leadership across a broad range of functional areas, including Facilities Management, OHS, Human Resources, Time in Lieu provisions and Risk Management, across multiple campuses. Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and monitor consistent systems and procedures that align with whole-school strategic priorities and Departmental requirements.
Highly developed organisational and strategic planning skills, with a demonstrated ability to prioritise and coordinate complex workflows across multiple locations. Proven experience in implementing efficient administrative systems that support large-scale operations and ensure timely achievement of objectives within established school policies and frameworks.
Demonstrated capacity to contribute to whole-school strategic planning, policy development and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring consistent application across multiple campuses. Ability to provide expert advice to leadership teams and conceptualise innovative solutions to complex operational challenges.
Attendance during term breaks will be required and a leave purchase allowance will be paid for this time.
Purpose of Position
The School Business Manager is a senior leadership position responsible for providing strategic, financial, and operational leadership across a multi-campus, multi-school network comprising seven campuses located in Wodonga, Shepparton, Benalla, and Seymour. The role supports a community of over 1,300 students and more than 250 staff, ensuring the effective, compliant, and sustainable management of financial, physical, and human resources across geographically dispersed locations.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, the School Business Manager is accountable for the planning, coordination, and governance of all business and administrative functions that underpin the delivery of high-quality education and school operations. This includes strategic oversight of finance and budgeting, procurement, payroll, human resources administration, facilities and asset management, compliance, and risk management.
The position ensures that all business processes, financial systems, and administrative practices operate efficiently and transparently in accordance with Department of Education (DE) policies, audit requirements, and the School Strategic Plan. The School Business Manager provides expert advice and evidence-based recommendations to the Principal and Executive team to support informed decision-making and long-term financial sustainability.
Working collaboratively with campus-based administration teams, the position provides leadership, guidance, and professional support to education support staff across all sites. The role ensures that consistent standards, systems, and procedures are implemented and maintained across campuses, fostering a culture of accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement.
The School Business Manager also contributes strategically to major projects and initiatives, including capital works, facility upgrades, and the development of new operational systems that enhance efficiency and compliance. The position requires strong analytical and communication skills, a high level of professional judgement, and the ability to balance strategic priorities with day-to-day operational demands in a complex, geographically distributed environment.
This role holds significant accountability for budget management, resource planning, workforce administration, and financial reporting across the organisation. It plays a critical role in aligning school operations with departmental requirements, ensuring the school operates efficiently, ethically, and in the best interests of its students and community.
Objectives
Deliver School Services
Financial Management
Support School Council
Planning and Organisation
School Systems and Operations
Other Duties
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Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
Applicants are expected to submit the following:
Geographical Context and Infrastructure
Wodonga Senior Secondary College is a government year 10 to 12 co-education school in the local government area of Wodonga. The College is located 1km from central Wodonga on 7.84 hectares surrounded by residential housing.
Wodonga is one of the fastest growing regional cities in Victoria with a population of 39,351. It is located 3 hours and 20 minutes from Melbourne on the Hume Hwy. Being a regional centre families can access social services, health, employment, art and culture. Families are also able to commute to Albury (7.8 kms) for work and leisure. Employment opportunities for parents and carers of student centre on Manufacturing, Health Care and Social Assistance, Public Administration, and Safety and Retail.
Wodonga Senior Secondary College has exceptional, all abilities, access to high-quality facilities which meets the needs of our students and the wider community. The main building encompasses teaching and learning spaces for science, digital literacy, mathematics, literature, history and language. The College also offers industry standard learning spaces for trades, children services, hair and beauty, and hospitability. Students can also enjoy well equipped sporting and preforming arts centres.
The Seymour, Shepparton, Benalla and Wodonga Flexible Learning Centres and Choice Wodonga are all campuses of Wodonga Senior Secondary College. These centres/program provide students who generally experience difficulties accessing mainstream school an educational pathway tailored to their often complex educational, social, developmental, psychological, health, legal or family situation.
History and Enrolment Trends
Wodonga Senior Secondary College was established in 2005-2006 through the regeneration of government secondary education in Wodonga. This initiative took the three existing secondary schools in the city to form one senior secondary college (10 to 12) and one Middle Years College with two campuses that specialise in the education of year 7, 8 & 9 students. Today, Wodonga Senior Secondary College and Wodonga Middle Years College work collaboratively to provide all students with every opportunity of success from 7 to Career.
Student and Community Demographics
The College currently has 1172 students. Over the last five years enrolment trends have increased. The majority of students transition from year 9 at Wodonga Middle Years College into year 10 at the Senior College. While 24 % of students are drawn from neighbouring communities (including New South Wales), Independent schools and Catholic College.
The College serves a community with socially, economically and culturally diverse needs. It actively embraces, respects and promotes the uniqueness of all students. For 3.1% of students English is their additional language and 15.9% of students are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders. The School Family Occupation (SFO) in 2018 was 0.6877. This has remained relatively consistent over the last 5 years.
Staffing and Leadership Profiles
The College benefits from the highly professional teaching and support staff. The majority 80% of teaching staff are highly experienced teachers. This blends well with a consistent flow of new teachers each year. The Executive Team at the Wodonga Senior Secondary College campus consists of 5 Principal Class focusing on high quality education for all students and continuous improvement. This team is supported by 17 leading teachers. There is an additional 5 principal class supporting the Flexible Learning Centres.
The school is sustained by highly dedicated Education Support Staff 56. This includes laboratory technicians, Librarians, administrative staff, maintenance and grounds staff, IT assistants and trainees. The College has a strong commitment to the wellbeing of students and this is demonstrated through the four house leaders and assistant as well as a highly competent wellbeing team of social workers, Doctors in School program, Koorie Support mentor, Inclusion Support and a Defence Transition Mentor.
Curriculum and Specialisation
Wodonga Senior Secondary College has the broadest range of subject choices in the region across all subject areas. The College works with all students to design an individual pathway which provides them with every opportunity for success following their secondary education. VCE and VCAL are spread over two and half years at the College. Both pathways are well represented by students.
In partnership with our external Registered Trained Organisations, the College delivers a diverse range of VET Subjects. The VET program within the College has a strong reputation within the College and the community. This can be attributed to the Industry professional teaching staff, high quality facilities and supportive placement host from industry.
Students at the college have a wonderful opportunity to participate in and experience our global education programs. Each year the Senior College has a number of overseas students studying at the College, students can study Japanese or Indonesian face to face at the College as well as attend one of our international study tours to countries such as Cambodia, Japan, and Vietnam.
The College has a healthy focus on extra-curricular activities. Students are encouraged to participate in the annual swimming and athletic carnivals, Interschool sport, Instrumental Music program, College musicals and celebrity events.