School Services Manager

School Services ManagerFull time or Part-time4 or 5 days per weekFully office based, Finchley - North London£40,000 (FTE or pro-rata when 4 days)This is an exciting new opportunity for a strong administration / stakeholder manager to work as Schools Services Manager for a leading training and child & adolescent psychotherapy and counselling charity.
The organisaiton provides high quality, low-cost therapeutic support to children, young people and their families presenting complex mental, emotional and behavioural issuesThis role is to support relationship and stakeholder management with schools in the region where the charity are providing counselling services and be the liaison between the services and schoolsKey duties:• Liaise with schools (including head teachers, senior staff and governors), external agencies, statutory and non-statutory organisations in a professional manner.• Monitor, assess, evaluate and follow up delivery of service provided in order to maintain and improve the service.• Managing the signing off of all invoices• Promote Services at meetings and events..Experience and skills:• Strong administration and coordination skills• Ability to build relationships with a wide range or stakeholder and influence decision making.• Confident at delivering presentations in a clear, concise and professional manner• Good knowledge and understanding of primary and secondary school environment• The ability to prepare tenders and grant applications, in order to fund raise to secure financial sustainability of the service and a good knowledge of budgets and finance highly desirable.• Experience in managing budgets spread sheets, financial figures on Excel.