Admin Assistant Fixed-term (13 months), Maternity Cover
Colyton Grammar School
Colyton
- £18,453 - £19,485 pro rata
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2023
- Apply by:
- 3 January 2023
Job overview
Admin Assistant required to provide professional and comprehensive support and reception duties. This is a fixed-term position for 37.5 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks) with specific responsibility for co-ordinating the student work experience placements. The successful applicant will be accurate and well organised, able to relate effectively to a wide range of students and staff and work as part of a team as well as using their initiative.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Accurate and well organised, experience of administration
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Able to relate effectively to a wide range of students and staff
- Able to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise tasks and calls, to identify first line calls and enquiries that can be dealt with immediately and to be able to refer other issues to the appropriate member of staff
- IT skills (using MS Office 365) – able to create and edit documents, posters and similar materials
- Willingness to learn new skills as required for the post
- Able to prioritise competing workloads effectively
- Able to work successfully to deadlines
- Able to work independently and take the initiative within an established management framework
Also someone with:
- Willingness to utilise a range of computerised management information systems
- Experience of working in schools, is desirable
Duties:
- Dedicated responsibility for co-ordinating the student work experience placements
- General telephone and reception duties
- Word processing and typing
- Dealing with incoming and outgoing mail
- Student records
- Providing general office services, including filing and copying, as directed by the Head’s PA
- Providing admin assistance to careers and other teams as required.
- Production of promotional and other publications, including posters, to support the work of the school
- Liaising with teaching and support staff as appropriate
- Maintaining a register of master copies of reprographic material
- Maintaining an inventory of reprographics equipment
- General administrative tasks associated with the role
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About Colyton Grammar School
'The quality of education provided at the school is exceptional' - Ofsted 2020
Colyton Grammar School is a state funded academy with a mixed, selective grammar school intake - 954 on roll including Sixth Form.
Colyton Grammar has one of the finest academic records in the country and features regularly in the top group of schools in the national performance tables.
Parents and students tell us that what they most value is the happy and supportive environment. We strive to ensure that all students have the best possible chance of fulfilling their personal and academic potential.
The school culture is one in which achievement in all activities is valued and celebrated. Our expectations for personal achievement and behaviour are very high and there is a genuine sense of partnership between all members of the school community, which fosters a purposeful but friendly ethos promoting values of respect, consideration and co-operation.
As a school specialising in the relatively able, we are committed to academic excellence in all areas of the curriculum. The quality of teaching is exceptionally high and the Value Added measures for student progress are amongst the best in England.
Recognition of the school’s work is reflected in a succession of exceptional Ofsted Reports. The school has been designated by Ofsted as a ‘Best of the Best School’, being one of the very few schools in England to have been named as ‘outstandingly successful’ in three Annual Reports of the Chief Inspectors of Schools. The school is a Specialist Science College, Leading Edge and Leadership Partner School.
The school is exceptionally attractive and there is a continuous programme of development.
Neither the printed word nor ‘word of mouth’ can replace the first-hand experience of this well-ordered but stimulating community.
Colyton Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to equal opportunities and are only interested in your ability to do the job - please complete the Equal Opportunities Recruitment Questionnaire to help us monitor the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policy. The information you provide on this questionnaire is NOT available to those involved in the selection process.
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