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PA to Principal

PA to Principal

King Solomon Academy

Westminster

  • Expired
Salary:
£27,651 – £33,627 per annum pro rata
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2017 or soon after
Apply by:
16 December 2016

Job overview

Last year, King Solomon Academy was the highest performing non-selective school in the country. We are redefining what is possible and we are seeking an exceptional person ready to join our high-performing school and contribute to our school’s mission. This is a unique opportunity to be part of showing what education can achieve. 

We are seeking to recruit a highly organised and experienced administrator to the role of PA to the Principal of the academy. This is a demanding and rewarding role in which you will be responsible for the efficient running of the Principal’s office and also take responsibility for all internal and external communications. Given the varied nature of the role, experience of office management would be an advantage.   

Our ideal candidate will: 

· have experience in a varied senior administrative role 

· be organised, with very good attention to detail 

· have excellent oral and written communication skills · be adaptable and hardworking, with the ability to multi-task 

· be a creative thinker and able to use their own initiative to develop new marketing ideas

 · a flexible attitude, helpful positive approach 

· be fully committed to King Solomon Academy’s ethos of high expectations and no excuses  

 The successful candidate will have the opportunity to: 

· work in a high performing organisation which is making a real difference in children’s lives 

· join a network of Ark academies and gain access to an exclusive range of benefits including reduced gym membership and a comprehensive CPD provision.    

To apply, please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies. The deadline for applications will be at 11am on Friday 16 December 2016.   

For further information or a confidential discussion please contact the recruitment team on recruitment@arkonline.org or 0203 116 6345.   

Location:  Westminster, London 

Start date:  January 2017 or soon after 

Deadline:  11am on Friday 16 December 2016  

Salary:  Ark Support Staff Scale Band 8: £27,651 – £33,627 per annum pro rata 

Hours:   7.45am to 4.30pm ~ 39 hours per week, 42 weeks a year. 

Contract: Permanent

Ark is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.    

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About King Solomon Academy

King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.

Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.

Aims, Vision and Values

Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.

In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.

We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.

Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.

Our vision 

High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university

Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.

A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university

Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.

A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.

Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.

Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.

Specialisms

Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism.  Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.

King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school.  We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.

Ofsted

King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.

Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:

“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."

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