Chief Finance Officer - Full-time

Aletheia Academies Trust

Ref:KCC-F41-97-S
Posted:31/10/2025
Pay:£80,000 to £120,000, Commensurate with experience
Start Date:Feb 2026
App Close Date:25/11/2025 at 09:00
Interviews:Round 1: 3rd Dec. Round 2: 11th Dec

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Chief Financial Officer

Full-time, permanent

Salary: £80,000 to £120,000, Commensurate with experience

Required to start: Feb 2026

Are you an exceptional financial leader ready to make a real impact? Aletheia Academies Trust is seeking an outstanding CFO to join our dynamic Executive Team.

As a key strategic partner to the CEO and Board of Trustees, you will provide high-quality leadership, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the Trust continues to deliver exceptional outcomes for its 10,000+ pupils.

You will make a difference to the lives of children and young people by ensuring Aletheia remains financially secure and operationally effective. This is a high-profile and influential role, central to shaping the future of the Trust.

You will be leading a substantial team of motivated professionals and will need to be committed to their current and future development, and the continual improvement of services.

You will be focussed on building excellent relationships with budget holders and budget managers throughout the Trust, and ensuring they all have the best available information, processes and tools to deliver excellence.

Critically, you will be a skilled and experienced strategic planner, comfortable with working with the CEO and the Board, and a team player with Management Team colleagues in delivering shared objectives.

If you’re motivated by purpose, inspired by challenge, and ready to leave a lasting legacy, we’d love to hear from you.

Why work at Aletheia? Some of our Trust benefits include:

Trust-wide commitment to your ongoing Continuous Professional Development (CPD) including secondment options and mentorship opportunities
Unlimited access for you and your family to 24/7 GP telephone consultations.
Access to a wide array of discounts including Motorfinity, Kent Rewards and Blue Light Card.
Free access to mental health and wellbeing support including counselling, mindfulness and physiotherapy sessions
Free annual eye tests and flu vaccinations each year

For more information and to apply, visit MyNewTerm.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a suitable candidate apply.

Aletheia Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Information about the trust

Saint George’s CE School is a thriving educational setting that has served the children of Gravesend since the 17th century. The school is relatively unique as a co-educational, Anglican and an all-through (4-18) school. The school is a warm, caring and highly inclusive place where all members of the community are cared for and valued. The primary phase was added to the school in 2019. Prior to this the secondary phase first became an academy in 2011 and later, in 2014, was one of three founding schools of the Aletheia Academies Trust. The Trust now has 11 schools, 10 of which are primary and the school benefits from the work of the Best Practice Teams in all key areas of school life. The all through school has been inspected once so far under a Section 48, (SIAMS) wherein the effectiveness, character and ethos of the school was judged to be ‘Excellent’ in all areas. The 2 most recent Ofsted inspections have judged the school to be ‘Good’ with outstanding leadership and management. Both phases are significantly oversubscribed and operate lengthy waiting lists.

The site has been greatly developed and refurbished over the recent years. In addition to the new primary phase building the site has benefited from a new science building, a floodlit 3G sports facility and a £6 million secondary building housing the 6th form, performing arts and core subjects. All facilities are accessible to the entire school community regardless of Key Stage. Some staff teach and support across both phases and subject leaders from all phases work closely together to ensure that there is a cohesive curriculum experience for all pupils during their school journey from Key stage 1 to Key Stage 4 and 5.

Aletheia Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, governors and Trustees to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks, including overseas criminal background checks where applicable. Our policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders can be found on our website. All new employees, volunteers, governors and Trustees will be required to undertake safeguarding training on induction which will be regularly updated in line with statutory guidance.

Job Contact Information

Name:HR department
Address:AAT C/O Saint George's CE School,
Meadow Road,
Gravesend,
Kent,
DA11 7LS
Telephone: 01474 531480
Email: hr@aletheiatrust.org.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

Vacancy Pack - CFO