Executive Assistant
Ark John Keats Academy
Enfield
- £28,978 - £35,492 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Pro-rata for term time only
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 5 July 2022
Job overview
Reporting to: Principal / Headteacher
Start date: September 2022 or sooner
Location: Ark John Keats Academy
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time (term-time only). 36 hours per week.
working hours to be agreed with line manager.
Salary: Ark support staff (outer London) Band 8, points 19-29. (£28,978 - £35,492 pro-rata for term time only)
The Role
As the Executive Assistant to the Principal, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the Principal and Headteacher are best equipped to lead the academy. In this role, you will assist with their top priorities by providing key administrative support, managing their diaries and being involved in a wide range of other projects. You will provide support to the wider senior team, working particularly closely with Vice Principals in addition to the Principal and Headteacher.
Key Responsibilities
• Maintaining efficient and effective systems for filing and organising correspondence, ensuring discretion and respecting confidentiality
• Managing the principal’s diary and appointments
• Assisting with data management, and producing correspondence and reports, sometimes of a confidential nature
• Responsibility for exclusion documentation paperwork and paperwork for governing body meetings
• Dealing with all phone calls and personal enquiries efficiently and professionally
• Arranging and assisting with meetings as requested, including booking rooms, providing refreshments, preparation of materials and minute taking, in order to ensure their timeliness and smooth-running
• Meeting and greeting the principal’s visitors, displaying due courtesy and tact, to ensure that visitors are welcomed into a friendly and professional environment
• Communicate and liaise with staff, students, parents, governors, Ark Schools staff, members of the local community and other external parties as appropriate
• Maintain a presence around the school to ensure that the highest standards of behaviour are upheld
• Organise the administrative elements of key events and visits in the school calendar including coordinating and planning for all practical arrangements
Other
• Actively promote the safety and welfare of our children and young people
• Ensure compliance with Ark’s data protection rules and procedures
• Liaise with colleagues and external contacts at all levels of seniority with confidence, tact and diplomacy
• Work with Ark Central and other academies in the Ark network, to establish good practice throughout the network, offering support where required
This job description is not an exhaustive list, and you will be expected to carry out any other reasonable tasks as directed by your line manager.
Attached documents
About Ark John Keats Academy
We are delighted to introduce you to Ark John Keats Academy. The academy is a 3 to 18 all-through school in Enfield, with a mixed comprehensive intake. We opened our doors to our first Reception classes in September 2013 and our first cohort of year 7 pupils joined us in September 2014. We currently have over 1700 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 13.
Ark John Keats is a very proud member of the successful Ark network of schools. Our curriculum is academic, planned to prepare pupils for the best universities by emphasising mastery of knowledge and skills. Our teaching staff are experts in their subject areas and all staff at the academy share a commitment to upholding the highest expectations. We have created an academy that is renowned for its calm, orderly and purposeful environment and where pupils behave maturely and respectfully.
We have developed a character programme to support the development of our pupils, and we ensure pupils develop their wider interests and passions by allowing our pupils access to a variety of enrichment activities, ranging from chess and coding to football and political art. We support pupils in raising their aspirations by helping them understand the structure, importance and value of school. We inspire their thinking about their futures through university and workplace visits and through our external speaker programme, where visitors speak to pupils about their career choices and educational experiences. We are also committed to developing our staff and we ensure they master all aspects of their work and are brilliantly prepared for the next stage of their careers. The academy has first class facilities having undergone an £18 million rebuilding and refurbishment programme that was completed in December 2015.
We are very excited by what we have achieved so far and new staff and pupils will be joining a school with a wonderful ethos, where local children are provided with a first class education. We are intent on developing a school that will match the very best in both the state and private sectors and is a source of pride for the people of north east Enfield.
Principal
Katie Marshall
Primary Headteacher
Emma Penzer
Vision and Values
At Ark John Keats, we aspire for all our children to have the academic knowledge necessary to enable them to progress to university, for pupils to have a love of learning and curiosity about the world, and for them to be polite, well-mannered young people who take responsibility for their choices and drive their own destinies.
The academy’s approach to achieving this is based on our six pillars:
- High expectations: Every adult who works at AJK believes in the limitless potential of all children.
- Excellent teaching: Subject specialists plan lessons focused on rigorous content which make pupils work hard and think deeply about the subject, fostering their curiosity and love of learning.
- Exemplary behaviour: Pupils are unfailingly polite and well-mannered individuals who take responsibility for their own actions and seek to help others whenever they can.
- Depth for breadth: Our rich, challenging curriculum builds pupils’ cultural capital to ensure they can all be knowledgeable, articulate and university ready.
- Knowing every child: Our teachers know and care about every child they interact with, proactively building strong and positive relationships between school and home.
- Always learning: Our continuous professional development, co-planning meetings and coaching ensure teachers feel stretched and supported, able to develop as teachers and leaders in a long-term career at Ark John Keats.
Ofsted and Performance Data
The academy was inspected in April 2015 and was judged outstanding in every area
We see the outstanding judgement only as a validation of the progress we have made to date. We are determined to provide an unrivalled standard of education for local children and know we have more to do to achieve this. Our focus will remain unwaveringly on the further development of exceptional practice within each of our pillars:
- A curriculum that provides challenge, academic rigour, cultural literacy and systematic progression as well as opportunities for pupils to develop key learning dispositions and their literacy and numeracy skills.
- Teaching that is highly effective and high quality support for staff in developing their practice.
- Strong discipline through the highly consistent application of our routines and techniques by all staff. Development of character through the Character programme.
- Raising aspirations through high quality teaching, the speaker programme, university visits and working with external partners.
- Widening pupils’ horizons through a high quality enrichment programme that all staff contribute to.
- Setting high expectations in everything we do and working collaboratively to ensure staff and pupils can meet these expectations.
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