Admissions Assistant
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- Please contact the recruitment team for salary information
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 27 July 2025
Job overview
Contract summary. Monday to Friday 09.00 - 17.00 40 hours per week, with occasional weekends. 43 weeks worked per year (33 during term time + 10 weeks during school holidays as agreed with line manager)
The role. The Admissions Office is the gateway to the School. The Admissions team works with a wide range of parents, boys, prep schools and junior schools to identify and guide prospective boys and their parents from initial enquiry, through testing, to an offer being made and accepted. The role is primarily to assist and support the wider Admissions team with a range of administration tasks; such as greeting parents to the office and on open days, processing tests, applications and acceptances, and updating the records and databases.
The skills. The successful candidate will have previously worked in a similar position within a busy office or customer service environment. You will have general office administration experience, with a good working knowledge of MS Office computer systems. Applicants should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to deal with a variety of individuals professionally. They should also possess excellent time management skills, attention to detail and be able to prioritise.
The benefits. Benefits include flexible working after the six-month training period, free lunches, automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme, use of the School’s swimming pool and gym, and subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
The environment. Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 840 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. The Admission/Registry team is responsible for initial registration and deposit processes, testing, making offers to successful boys and enrolling them onto the School’s pupil database. The enrolment experience of every family, from initial enquiry, through application, testing, selection and ultimately to being offered a place is central to the work of the Admissions department, who strive to ensure that every step of the process is clear, consistent, customer focused and well managed.
Closing date: 27 July 2025
Applications will be processed as they are received, so early application is encouraged.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.
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About Harrow School
Harrow School is one of the best-known schools in the world. It is situated on a 324-acre estate in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London, and employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18, all of whom live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. It was established by royal charter in 1572 for the education of 30 poor boys in the parish of Harrow on the Hill. This original purpose of offering a life-changing education to boys from every background continues today; in 2023/23, 340 of our 834 pupils benefited from some form of fee assistance.
While Harrow’s rich academic education leads to top examination results and entry to the best universities in the world, our focus is on pastoral excellence with the wellbeing of our boys at its core. The School also offers a host of co-curricular opportunities, allowing each pupil to follow or discover his own particular interest, and boys regularly achieve sporting success at a national level. All this is underpinned by world-class facilities.
Knowing that we are part of a much wider community, our Shaftesbury Enterprise partnership programme is a key element of our curriculum that encourages all Harrovians – pupils and staff – to participate in projects to support young people to flourish in every area of their life, whatever their circumstances.
Harrow also has a family of schools that offer a similar outstanding education across Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should be measured not purely by grades but by their influence on the wider world.
The School believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and answer the questions: what do we belong to, what’s important to us?; why do our collective efforts matter?; what holds us together?
Harrow’s four Values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the School make decisions from day to day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation and the principles of ‘godliness and good learning’ established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
‘Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong, and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.’
‘Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement, is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.’
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