Admissions Administrator

Tenure: Permanent, Part-time (part-year, full time weekly hours)
38 weeks of the year (term-time plus 2 weeks)
Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm, 37.5 hours/week

Surbiton High School is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share resources and communicate across sites, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of supporting schools in their quest to give every child the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.

Supporting the Head of Admissions in all aspects of admissions.

Surbiton High School is looking to appoint an Admissions Administrator who will support the Head of Admissions and in all aspects of admissions. The successful candidate will be a hands-on and experienced professional who will be aligned to the School’s ethos and values. You will inspire confidence and trust and immerse yourself fully in the life of the School.

The ideal candidate will have a strong administrative background, preferably in an educational environment.

You will be creative, energetic and pro-active; offering solutions and possessing the ability to work independently. Delivering on promises is key. The successful candidate will have a good work ethic, be flexible, pragmatic and well organised. You will be able to work effectively with different groups of people and alongside other key members of staff, get the best out of people and operate with purpose, integrity, enthusiasm, good humour and tact.

Key Responsibilities:

To work alongside the Head of Admissions to provide regular administrative support, including but not limited to:

• Dealing with phone and email enquiries
• Open Event Bookings and communications
• Sending out prospectus packs, letters and communications
• Arranging individual visits and tour bookings
• Processing pupil applications
• Processing acceptance and decline notifications on Admissions database
• Processing bursary applications and renewals
• Submitting weekly Leavers and Joiners
• Exporting of new pupil data to MIS team and scanning of all acceptance paperwork
• Creating pupil files for all new joiners
• Pupil filing
• Updating website as and when required
• Any other tasks required by the Head of Admissions and carrying out any such duties as may be reasonably requested

The successful candidate will be likely to fit the following profile:

• Strong administrative background essential
• Educational background to Degree standard desirable
• Experience within an educational environment would be an advantage
• Excellent organisational skills, ensuring an ability to assist with all Admissions processes
• Attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to interact well with people at all levels and build relations
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Excellent telephone manner and written communication skills
• Relevant and up to date IT skills
• Understanding, experience of, and ability to use, the functions of a database
• Excellent understanding of ‘Gold Standard’ customer service desirable
• Understanding of, and sympathy with, the independent school sector would be an advantage
• Pro-active with a positive ‘can-do’ and enthusiastic attitude
• A good team player with a strong sense of initiative and adaptability to manage problems and conflicts
• Personal warmth, with a genuine desire to help others and offer a ‘Gold Standard’ service
• Personal and professional integrity
• Expertise and gravitas when dealing with parents
• An understanding and support of the ethos of Surbiton High School
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks within a timely manner
• Reliable, well organized with good attention to detail
• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
  

Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.

For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email recruitment@surbitonhigh.com

To Apply

Please click here to apply https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/1265728?cid=1567

Closing date: 8:00am, Tuesday 12 June 2018
Interviews to be held week commencing 18 June 2018

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