As an HNC colleague, you will have the rare opportunity to shape a better future through supportively challenging staff and students to become their best selves.  We work collaboratively to ensure that staff love working at the College and students love learning.  As One HNC we embrace difference, celebrate diversity and understand the complexities and challenges of the modern world.  We strive to embody our ASPIRE values and are committed to making our vision and mission a daily lived reality.  If you share our belief that education, enrichment and enlightenment are the keys to empowering young people to shape a better future, then we would welcome your application for this important role.

The Finance Director is a strategically important position within the College.  Despite the increasingly challenging financial climate that sixth form colleges operate within, HNC remains financially ‘outstanding’.  Our ambition is to remain financially strong so that we can continue to deliver our curriculum intent.  As the strategic lead for the College’s finances, the successful candidate will have the knowledge, experience, qualifications and business acumen required for the role.  Equally important will be their ability to deliver complex financial information to a broad range of audiences in an accessible, intelligible, meaningful way.  We are seeking to appoint a colleague who shares our belief that the College’s finances are the basis for delivering the HNC experience.  The role will appeal to candidate’s who thrive on working in a fast-paced environment, who hold themselves to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity, who take responsibility for their professional development by being coachable, and who have the courage to make complicated and difficult decisions based on our shared purpose.  You will share the senior leadership team’s belief in the power of authentic communication and focus on providing their teams with clarity whilst trusting and empowering them to take action.  The successful candidate will help shape the financial future of the College and, in so doing, they will help us to shape a better future for our staff and our students.
We are committed to equal opportunities and safeguarding young people, as such an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate will be required for all posts.  All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.  The successful candidate will also be subject to additional relevant background and safeguarding checks.

The Assessment Centre date for this post is 13th & 14th November 2024.

The closing date for this vacancy is midnight 3rd November 2024.