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School Administrator required for a school in Watford
Timeplan Education Group are pleased to be supporting one of our fantastic schools in their current search for a School Administrator, based in Watford, Hertfordshire.
They are looking for an experienced School Administrator with experience using SIMS ideally, or a candidate with very strong Admin experience looking to make the move into the Education setting.
Our Timeplan Services Division specialises in the placement of non-classroom-based staff including Administrators, HR, Finance and Facilities. With years experience within the team, we are the best placed recruiter to support you with your needs both inside and outside of the classroom.
About the role
As a School Administrator, you'll have experience in assisting the school office manager or similar with the day to day running of a busy office.
You will be responsible for looking after all forms of admin task, from answering the telephone to scanning, printing, filing, uploading documents to a digital system, dealing with parent and pupil liaison and much more.
This is a lovely but very fast paced role, which will require an individual to possess strong organisational skills and be calm and able to work under pressure, as school offices can quite often be hectic!
Key responsibilities can include but are not limited to:
- Managing a team of administrators in their day-to-day tasks, such as printing, scanning, filing, answering inbound queries, making outbound queries, parent liaison, safeguarding concerns, medical issues, and more.
- Ensuring that admin tasks and paperwork are completed efficiently and effectively, whilst maintaining a high quality of work.
- Liaising with both parents, carers, teachers and other school staff throughout the school day.
- Dealing with sensitive information and paperwork, sometimes relating to children and safeguarding or welfare issues.
- Ensuring school systems are up to date and information is uploaded to school systems accurately, including at times the use of systems such as SIMS, Bromcom, or ARBOR.
- Take responsibility for ordering equipment for the office staff as and when this is required in order for them to complete their roles.
- Answering the telephone and responding to parents via email as well as stepping in to complete ad-hoc tasks as and when the needs of the school require you to.
This is a full-time, temp-perm position, 5 days a week, 8am - 4pm, Monday - Friday
About you
- Experience working within a school environment
- A valid DBS on the DBS update service
- Availability to start immediately
If this sounds like the role for you, please apply or contact Tom at Timeplan Education for more information -
We look forward to receiving your application!
