The Key for School Leaders | NASBM
School business management toolkit
Welcome
Few roles in education have evolved as extensively and as quickly
as those of school business management practitioners. Traditionally
associated with looking after the budget, the school business
management remit has rapidly expanded in recent years to include
premises, procurement, marketing, recruitment and managing nonteaching staff. With increasingly rigorous accountability and greater
focus on local autonomy, all schools require individuals with expertise
in these areas to support the headteacher and governing body.
NASBM’s professional standards, launched in November 2015, reflect
the integral role of school business management. The standards will
not only prove useful in informing the recruitment and performance
management of school business managers and their fellow
professionals – in roles ranging from administrative officer to directors
of finance and operations – but also recognise the importance of
continuing professional development among this group.
At The Key, we currently have more than 6,500 school business
management practitioner members who contact us for information,
advice, case studies and other resources on everything from
drawing up service level agreements to marketing the school to
pupils and parents. To provide more targeted support to these
members, we have recently developed a ‘school business
managers’ zone’ on our website with essential resources that may
prove useful to practitioners.
The National Association of School Business Management
(NASBM) believes that all roles within the school business
management profession should be underpinned by
professional standards.
The development and launch of the NASBM professional
standards, by and with the support of sector stakeholders and over
1,100 practitioners, at the end of 2015 demonstrated both the need
and demand for such a professional framework.
The standards demonstrate the commitment and capabilities
required to successfully manage a school and ultimately improve
learning outcomes for pupils.
Since launching these professional standards, our focus has
been to work with leading partners from across the country on the
development of resources, tools and training to support their use
and implementation and to give guidance to practitioners regardless
of the stage of their career development journey.
We believe this new toolkit from The Key and NASBM will assist
you in ensuring resources and skills are deployed effectively, and
support the delegation of responsibility across the
school structure. We hope that practitioners
will find this toolkit useful and would welcome
feedback from the sector.
This toolkit showcases just a small selection of the school business
management-related resources which can be found on our website
at www.thekeysupport.com/SL. We hope that you
and all those involved in business management
in your school will find it useful support for
some of the daily challenges of your role.
Stephen Morales
Chief Executive, NASBM
Fergal Roche
CEO, The Key
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