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They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.
Senior School Administrator & Exams Officer
Location: Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
Salary: £13.67 - £15.27 per hour depending on skills and experience (£25,048.91 to £27,980.75 actual pro-rata salary)
Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time + 1 week (40 weeks)
Essential Skills/Experience & Qualifications:
- Experience of working in Senior Administrative role within a school environment and/or a busy School administration office
- Adaptable, flexible approach to work including collaborative support to other colleagues to meet demands of the business
- Excellent organisation skills: ability to work in a busy and demanding environment
- Ability to be discreet and protect confidentiality
- Excellent customer focussed manner
- Good level of literacy and numeracy (at least 5 GCSEs above C to include English and Maths).
- Must have excellent computer skills - Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint and ability to use range of databases once trained
- Ability to manage own time to deal with multiple tasks.
- High levels of interpersonal ability with excellent written and verbal communication.
The Role:
In this post you will co-ordinate and manage the day to day efficient and effective running of the school administration function related to HR, training and examinations support.
Key duties include:
- Liaise and work collaboratively with internal stakeholders including site-based staff and wider group functions (Recruitment, Quality, HR)
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships in contributing to the delivery of an efficient support service
- Maintaining and updating manual and computerised records
- Contribute to the development and record keeping of training programmes/learning opportunities, with ownership of the Moodle Training Matrix
- Prepare and support key Performance Management reporting throughout the employee lifecycle.
- Organising and facilitating interviews, events and meetings to include taking minutes, as required.
- Support the induction of new staff to the school to include new-starter set up and initial training
- To provide support to the recruitment and onboarding processes of staff
- To provide support for HR to include sickness absence reporting and keeping training records up to date.
- Be responsible for the overall smooth running of internal and external examinations, ensuring that all related administration and preparation is undertaken, to include room set up, attendance registers, securely storing and checking papers, providing and checking seating plans and relevant materials
- Disseminate examination information to staff, pupils and parents / carers, including exam and invigilation timetables, guidelines and querying results
- Liaise with examination boards to ensure the accurate administration of all examinations.
- Support in the organisation of the school's external invigilators, including training and ensuring up-to-date information is provided to them
- Ensure arrangements are in place for the specific needs of individuals, liaising with Lead SENDCo re: access arrangements
- Support the requirements necessary of the School's Quality and Governance expectations to include preparing, collating and editing reports in respect of all aspects of School Administration and Support
Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.
Benefts:
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
- Refer a friend for £1,000 We'll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.