Chief Operating Officer

• Critical role within a high performing school
• Build on a dynamic and positive culture
• Contemporary finance and business leadership

 
The Position
Knox Grammar School seeks to appoint a strategic leader to the position of Chief Operating Officer.
The Chief Operating Officer is a critical senior leadership position and reports directly to the Headmaster as the CEO of the School.  The Chief Operating Officer holds oversight of the business services functions including finance, payroll, property and buildings, domestic services functions, risk and compliance. In this position the Chief Operating Officer is a member of the School Executive.
The ideal candidate will be a contemporary leader, demonstrating broad strategic leadership, operational management experience and strong financial skills.  With demonstrated experience developing and executing complex management (financial, capital and property), and planning initiatives the appointee will have the capability to deliver transformational change through collaboration.  Displaying an innovative and empowering approach, the appointee will possess exceptional financial analysis skills combined with strong operational and project management capability. Presenting with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ideal candidate will display high energy and a hands-on approach. The Chief Operating Officer is a highly visible position in the school community and the appointee will demonstrate an ability to build trust, rapport and develop collaborative working relationships at all levels. Tertiary qualifications with a finance focus are essential.
The Organisation
With approximately 3,200 students from Prep to Year 12, Knox Grammar School is a leading independent Uniting Church school and was founded in 1924. Knox Grammar School seeks to be an exemplary School, developing, within a caring Christian environment, students of Faith, Wisdom, Integrity, Compassion and Courage, with a sure knowledge of who they are and how they should live.  The School is organised across four campuses including a Boarding facility that caters for 215 students.
Knox Grammar School currently employs approximately 400 teaching and professional staff and are committed to being a leading school, highly respected globally for innovation, altruism and a commitment to student and teacher excellence and wellbeing.
For more information on the school visit –  www.knox.nsw.edu.au
To apply – click on ‘APPLY NOW’ and using reference KNGcoo0722 address your cover letter and resume to Liz Jones or Liam King, of Fisher Leadership, or call 1300 347 437 for further information.