Job description
Agency Department of Education and Training Work unit Peppimenarti School
Job title Business Manager Designation Administrative Officer 6
Job type Full time Duration Ongoing commencing 06/10/2025
Salary $96,620 - $107,721 Location Peppimenarti
Position number 48304 RTF 325359 Closing 31/07/2025
Contact officer Eric Barrows on 0447 395 828 or eric.barrows@education.nt.gov.au
About the agency https://education.nt.gov.au/
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=325359
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people
with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please
discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE
website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to
the OCPE website.
Primary objective
The Business Manager provides strategic and operational leadership, advice and management support in the areas of finance,
procurement, administration, infrastructure and human resource management for non-teaching staff in a busy and demanding school
environment, including liaison with centralised service providers.
Context statement
Peppimenarti School is in Peppimenarti 350 km west of Darwin on the bank of Tom Turner creek. The population is approximately
300 but the school services seven homelands in the surrounding country. Peppimenarti School has an enrolment of around 70
students. The community can be accessed by road during the dry season and only via air during the wet season. The school operates
across the spectrum of the Australian curriculum through the lens of indigenous education catering for primary and secondary
students.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Ensure the provision of procurement, administrative, infrastructure, budgets, financial management and classroom support
services for the school.
2. Provide advice, or facilitate appropriate advice, on all corporate matters for school-based managers and staff.
3. Develop and implement corporate and business support services, including grants management systems and appropriate
management of internal controls.
4. Implement an ongoing program of continuous improvement for corporate support systems and processes including proactive
data collection, analysis and performance monitoring and reporting.
5. Liaise and negotiate with centralised service providers to coordinate delivery of business services and support achievement of
school and departmental strategic objectives.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Demonstrated ability to analyse and provide advice on business support activities including financial and human resource, asset
and records management to facilitate efficient and effective program delivery.
2. Demonstrated high level oral and written communication and interpersonal skills with an understanding of the complexities of
cultures and contexts present in the Northern Territory, and the ability to promote the effective interaction with all cultures and
all levels of staff.
3. High level adaptability, flexibility and resilience including the ability to manage pressure and change in an environment
undertaking change, and to modify approaches to suit different people and situations.
4. Demonstrated experience in management of a service delivery team including management and coordination of staff, resources,
records and assets.
5. The ability to maintain integrity and confidentiality.
Desirable
1. Accounting degree.
2. Experience living and working in remote Northern Territory schools and school operations.
3. Experience with technologyone cia and school resourcing.
Further information
The successful applicant must have no significant criminal record confirmed by a Police Criminal History check and have, or be in the
process of obtaining, a current Working with Children Card and current First Aid Certificate.
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