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Admissions Officer

Admissions Officer

Colfe's School

Greenwich

Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
3 June 2022

Job overview

Admissions Officer 

Reporting to: Admissions Manager 

Contract:                                       Part-time (20 hours per week) term time – flexibility with hours – plus 8 days in the school holidays

Occasional work will be needed during afternoons, evenings and weekends with at least three Saturdays (especially during the autumn and winter terms).

Start Date:     ASAP

The role requires exceptional communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, empathy, sympathy, flexibility and attention to detail. Reporting to the Admissions Manager, the role will include operational support and delivery of the annual Admissions and plan. 

Skills and attributes:

  • able to relate well to prospective parents – excellent phone manner – and colleagues
  • able to manage time well so that pressure points such as Open Mornings or taster days are supported effectively;
  • understand and act upon the need for constant, accurate communication so that parents and other stakeholders have confidence in and enthusiasm for the school;
  • ability to write effective marketing copy for print and online;
  • excellent data management skills and knowledge of Excel;
  • some knowledge of data and client-relations management systems

Admissions support:

Support the Admissions Manager with the administration, logistical management and communications process for prospective parents. For example:

  • be first contact point of contact for parents’ initial enquires – via phone, email or visit;
  • working closely with the Admissions Manager and Director of Admissions & Communications to support the end-to-end application process to prospective parents from initial enquiry to acceptance of place;
  • provide administrative support to and Admissions Manager and wider team when necessary;
  • conduct school tours for prospective parents;
  • supporting the operational delivery of the school’s admissions plan, providing support for programme of events and other activities and initiatives, for the purpose of successful pupil recruitment and excellent public relations;
  • assist with the management of entrance assessments including liaising with Heads of Department;
  • attend open morning events and assessments outside of working hours where necessary.  

Internal communication:

  • to promote continually the need for marketing and customer-oriented approaches in all aspects of the school’s operations;
  • to be a visible and approachable figure for current pupils and staff, and to listen to their perspective on school life.


Application Procedure

All applicants must submit: 

  • an application form, accompanied by a letter of application,
  • current CV,
  • details of two referees, who will be contacted prior to interview, in accordance with the School’s Safer Recruitment procedures

The application should be marked private and confidential and submitted by email to recruitment@colfes.com or by post to Mrs Anna Ross, Colfe’s School, Horn Park Lane, London SE12 8AW

The deadline for applications is Friday 3 June, Colfe’s reserves the right to appoint to this post before the closing date if necessary. 


Colfe’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.



Attached documents

About Colfe's School

THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;

• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;

• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;

• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;

• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.

Colfe’s School

Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools.  It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652.  In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.

In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school.  For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.

Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War.  In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London.  All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site.  The facilities are excellent: the  school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.

Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.

Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it.  It is very much a school of the present day.  The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy).  The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other.  Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’.  They are lively and willing to have a go.

Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.  

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