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Location: Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
Salary: £13.67 £15.27 per hourdepending 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)
We are currently seeking for an experienced School Administrator / Exams Officer join a specialist provision on Stoke-on-Trent supporting young people aged 6-19 with complex needs typically related to Asperger's Syndrome, Autism and other conditions.
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 schools 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 Schools Quality and Governance expectations to include preparing, collating and editing reports in respect of all aspects of School Administration and Support
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- Experience of working in Senor Administrative role within a school environment.
- 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.
- Life assurance;
- Enhanced pension scheme (from October);
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
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