Office Manager
RGS Guildford
Surrey
- £35,000 - £37,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- October 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 August 2025
Job overview
Join the RGS Prep Front Office team as our Office Manager and become the first point of contact for all visitors, parents and pupils. You will be a highly organised individual with a warm, friendly manner and a desire to help others.
Excellent computer skills are essential, as is the ability to troubleshoot and problem solve. The Office Manager will also support the Director of Music with planning, communication and billing of private music lessons.
Key responsibilities include:
- Line manage the front office staff
- Provide secretarial support to teaching staff
- Provide administrative support to school trip leaders, organise trip phones, parent letters and consent forms
- Organise Parents’ Evenings
- Provide first aid to pupils and staff
- Prepare parent bills for: instrument hire, music exams, music clubs
- Compile Visiting Music Teacher (VMT) music lesson frameworks
- Manage requests to start instrument lessons, notice lists and waiting lists
- Create music department comms to parents
In return, we offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits including:
- £35,000 - £37,000 per annum
- Pension scheme with an employee contribution of 5% and an employer contribution of 10%
- Medical insurance
- Fee reduction for son(s) of staff is available (after a qualifying period and subject to success at the entrance examination)
- Interest-free loans for rail season ticket holders
- Excellent lunchtime menu free of charge during term time
- Employee Assistance Programme
The Royal Grammar School has a responsibility for and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The person appointed to this post will be required to apply for an enhanced Disclosure Certificate from the DBS.
Please note: applications will be considered on receipt and we reserve the right to close applications early.
No agencies please.
About RGS Guildford
Located in the historic town of Guildford, the Royal Grammar School, dating back to 1509, is a leading independent day school for boys aged 11 – 18. Consistently regarded as one of the top three boys’ schools in the country, the RGS combines academic excellence with a passionate commitment to pastoral care and co-curricular opportunity in a friendly, supportive community of approximately 950 students and 120 teaching staff.
The original Tudor building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is still used by the students; in addition, development of the site continues to provide facilities conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century and to performance in all areas at the highest level. The School is committed to nurturing its staff and a structured, bespoke approach to professional development means that the whole community is united in a desire to improve, progress and be enriched.
Headmaster
Dr JM Cox
Values and vision
The RGS believes passionately in preparing our students for the challenges of a rapidly-changing, global future, as well as providing them with excellent foundations so that they can have the most ambitious of aspirations at university and beyond. Our bespoke Learning Habits nurture and develop all those transferable skills which will set up our young men irrespective of their chosen path: thinking critically, being independent and creative, being resilient and self-motivated; collaborating and working together, and being equally confident as leader or as part of a team.
Our timeless School Values – inclusivity; scholarship; integrity; respect; tenacity; and service – which are embedded in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the School ensure RGS students emerge as humble, grounded and decent young men committed to making the very best of each and every opportunity and to making a difference to others.
ISI report
“Pupils show an acute sense of respect for each other and recognise the school’s important role, underpinned by its inclusive values, in creating an academically challenging, positive and welcoming community where they can develop and flourish as true individuals.”
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