School Secretary / Office Manager / Administration Manager

Job Title: School Secretary / Office Manager

Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH1

Salary: Competitive

Hours: The hours of work are Monday to Friday. 8.00am – 5.00 pm a week (with an hour for lunch)

The school is a Christian IAPS co-ed day and weekly boarding school for children aged 2½ - 13 years situated in 300 acres of woodland, with excellent facilities within a caring family atmosphere.

Job Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a School Secretary / Office Manager to join the schools busy and friendly ‘front of house’ team.  This role is situated within the School Office which is a central hub for pupils, parents and staff alike to visit with a broad range of requests and queries.

Main Purpose of role:

To ensure that the School Office is managed in an effective, organised and efficient manner with appropriate and clearly understood systems, procedures and protocols enabling a high level of customer service to be maintained at all times:

• Monitoring the volume of work and maintaining service levels within the School Office
• Undertaking the line management and performance management of the School Reception staff.
• Responsible for maintaining the school database and ensuring the integrity of the data

Key Responsibilities:

Secretarial Support;

• Providing secretarial support to Senior Leadership Team
• Providing secretarial support to Section Heads and other teaching staff as required
• Take minutes of meetings when necessary, including Weekly pastoral meetings/Diary meetings/Staff briefings/Pre-term staff meetings
• Dealing with parent enquiries on a daily basis
• Monitoring and responding to GW mail and admin email inboxes
• Co –ordinate and /or prepare refreshments for all visitors and meetings with the catering department

School Administration;

• Manage parent consultation process ensuring that teachers and parents are kept fully informed at all stages of the process
• Manage the school report process ensuring that the information is accurate and sent to parents in a professional and timely manner
• Assisting SLT and staff with the production and distribution of parental communication documents
• Administering After School Activities programme, ensuring that the entire process runs smoothly and efficiently
• Administer the appointment of volunteers ensuring that all volunteers have had the appropriate vetting checks
• Emailing parents on a daily basis to include GW Notices on a weekly basis
• Producing Staff Bulletin & Diary Minutes for all staff
• Assisting staff with photocopying and general enquiries
• Covering reception when necessary
• Supporting reception on a regular basis; phones/parents/enquiries/tannoy’s
• Sign out sheets daily and phoning parents with children not signed out
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing post
• Updating and maintaining the school’s database in a timely and accurate fashion
• Produce in house certificates for Sports department
• Arranging transport for school events/trips/sports fixtures         

Recruitment Administration;

• Administer the vetting checks for volunteers
• Administer the vetting checks for Activities Coaches
• Obtaining enhanced DBS checks for new staff to support HR when required
• Providing new staff with induction packs and ensuring that documentation is up to date

Database Maintenance;

• Amend and update, in liaison with other staff as necessary, all internal pupil, parent and staff lists/information and data as appropriate.
• Filing when necessary

Closing Date: Noon 24th October 2016

Interview Date: to be arranged

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