Senior Common Room (SCR) Administrator
Magdalen College School
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary in the region of £24,000 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 June 2023
Job overview
The School
Magdalen College School, Oxford, founded by William Waynflete in 1480, is one of the country’s leading independent schools. It is situated in an enviable location at the heart of Oxford beside the River Cherwell.
The Role
The school is seeking to appoint a Senior Common Room (SCR) Administrator. The post holder will provide full and efficient secretarial, administrative and reprographics support to school staff. The SCR Administrator is part of the School Office team, which comprises the School Administrator, the Receptionists, the SCR Administrator and the SCR Reprographics & Administrative Assistant.
The post holder will also be expected to take responsibility for the following:
- Ordering academic stationery, commendation certificates and Leavers’ books. Liaising with Heads of department and the bursary over department bids to manage the process.
- Providing administrative support to school events, including managing ticket booking and allocation
- Distribution of post
- Managing the publication of daily notices
- Providing administrative support to staff running school trips e.g. making bookings, preparing itineraries, preparing pupil lists, drafting letters to parents.
- Providing administrative support to teachers e.g. typing, creating pupil lists
- Managing pupil logins to online resources
- Arranging and communicating with parents about on-site parent events e.g. Parents Evenings, Lilium talks, Parents Forum
The post holder will be expected to assist the SCR Reprographics & Administrative Assistant with the following duties as required:
- Photocopying (e.g. internal exam papers, class handouts)
- Scanning
- Cutting and Laminating
- Binding documents
- Creating booklets, posters and displays
- making labels and badges
- ensuring the equipment in the Reprographics Room is maintained in good working order
- arranging for repairs to be undertaken by specialist contractors where necessary
- managing the supply and stock levels of all consumables required for printing and copying
- creating Open Day displays
As part of the School Office team, the SCR Administrator may be asked to support the School Administrator and / or Reception, and undertake any other duties or tasks requested by the Surmaster.
This job description may be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.
The Candidate
The successful candidate is likely to be able to demonstrate/have:
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong IT Literacy and competency, including Microsoft Office; Word, Excel and Outlook
- Calm and efficient nature
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to multi-task
- Initiative and flexibility
Remuneration and Benefits
The role reports to the Surmaster. This is a permanent, full-time post during term-time, plus 3 pre-agreed weeks during school holidays as well as INSET days (38 weeks/annum in total). One of these weeks must be the week before term starts in September. The working hours are 08:15-17:00, Monday to Friday. Salary in the region of £24,000 per annum. This role could be considered for a job share so applications from candidates who wish to work part-time are welcome.
Non-teaching staff are automatically enrolled in the school’s contributory Group Pension Scheme. This is a defined contribution pension scheme into which the employee contributes 5% of gross salary and the employer contributes 10%. Teachers are part of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS).
There is a wide range of benefits on offer to staff, including free lunch during term time, generous holiday entitlement, free private health insurance, free entry to multiple sites in Oxford (e.g Oxford Botanical Gardens), Fee remission and complimentary use of school sports facilities. Head to mcsoxford.org/vacancies to find out more.
Application Process
The school’s Teacher and Support Staff application form and full CV, should be e-mailed to Miss Aimee Edwards, HR Administrator, (recruitment@mcsoxford.org) no later than noon on Thursday 8th June 2023; early applications are highly encouraged. Interviews are anticipated to take place on Wednesday 14th June; we reserve the right to interview before this date. Applicants who only send a CV will be rejected. Please click "apply now" to download the application form.
Safeguarding Policy
Magdalen College School is committed to the safeguarding of pupils, and any offer of employment will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, the receipt of satisfactory references, the school’s pre-employment medical questionnaire, plus sight of relevant original ID documentation and degree certificate(s).
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About Magdalen College School
MCS has a rich and distinctive history. The school was founded in 1480 by William Waynflete who believed in education as a facilitator of social mobility, and as such wanted to found a school of an entirely new kind. MCS quickly flourished as a school which firmly connected school education with a newly emerging university education and it soon became one of the country’s leading schools.
Today MCS provides a first-class education for boys aged 7-18 and sixth form girls. The school is small enough to develop every young person’s character and talents, yet large enough to provide a wide range of subjects and activities. MCS encourages a respect for learning whilst developing in every pupil a close interest in a wide range of extra-curricular interests.
MCS pupils enjoy a stimulating curriculum which is designed both to provide academic stretch and challenge, and to equip pupils with the skills for success beyond school.
In the early years, the emphasis is on exposing pupils to a wide range of subjects in order to discover their interests and talents. Pupils are put in sets by ability in French at 11 and in Mathematics at 12, no other subjects are set. There is an additional intake of pupils from prep and maintained schools at 13 and it is at this stage that boys make their first subject choices. Almost all pupils take ten (I)GCSEs, an increasing number of which are now reformed 9-1 (I)GCSEs.
Although MCS consistently secures outstanding public examination results, the real priority in the Sixth Form is on teaching beyond the syllabus, and the formation of habits of mind for life. In the Lower Sixth all pupils study at least four subjects, research and write their Waynflete Project (a 5000 word essay on a subject of their choice), undertake a community service or CCF placement, and participate in Games. From September 2017 all A Level (or Pre-U) courses will be linear; MCS pupils will no longer sit AS Levels. In the Upper Sixth, between one third and one half of Sixth Formers gain four or more A Levels, and there is a programme of lectures from visiting speakers, as well as UCAS applications and Games.
The School was last inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in 2017 and was recognised as “excellent” in both of the assessed outcomes: “Quality of Pupil Achievement” and “Quality of Pupil Personal Development”.
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