Administrator

Are you a conscientious and hard-working individual? Do you work with a high level of professionalism in everything that you do? Are you keen to join an inspirational academy? Ebbsfleet Academy has an exciting opportunity to appoint an Administrator to join us in November 2024.

Our successful candidate will be required to provide a full administrative service within the academy and provide assistance to students where appropriate, this includes undertaking a diverse range of administrative duties within the academy, to ensure well-presented and accurate correspondence, reports and other documentation as directed by the Senior Leadership Team and Office Manager.

Other duties to be carried out by our appointed candidate include answering internal and external calls for the Academy, dealing effectively and professionally with callers at all levels, processing messages to staff and students via voicemail, written communication, email, or if necessary to personally deliver urgent messages to staff/students. Therefore, candidates need to be organised and hardworking as this is a busy role within a thriving academy! 

To perform well in this role, you will need to be professional, personable and committed to providing an excellent service on behalf of Ebbsfleet Academy, and above all else, our administrator will have a positive work ethic and can-do attitude. If you're as excited by this opportunity as we are, we'd love to hear from you!

This basis of this role is permanent and offers an actual salary of £20,347 - £20,990 per annum (£23,656 - £24,404 full-time equivalent), based on working 37 hours per week, term time + 1 week of inset. The working hours of the role will be 8.00am - 4.00pm, four days a week and 8.00am - 3.30pm one day per week - the days will be discussed at the interview stage.

Please note, that interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis so please do apply as soon as possible

Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Currently, 14 of our academies are considered to be “Outstanding” which is nearly 50% of those which have been inspected whilst part of the Trust. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

Click here to view the benefits available to all LAT employees from day one.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.