School Office Administrator

**Job Title: School Office Administrator - MAT Cover**

**Location: Burnley**

**Salary: £21,313.45 per annum; Pro-Rata.**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week; Monday - Friday.**

**Contract: MAT Cover - 12 months Fixed-Term; Term-Time Only, plus 5 days.**

Aspire Behaviour Management is currently on the lookout for a School Office Administrator, to support the Directors with the running of the business. Along with providing support to the Principal and SLT with day-to-day support of administration tasks associated with running the School.

**Who we are looking for**:
The school is based in Burnley, and provides education to Children and Young People have a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs (SEMH).
- 5 GCSE’s Grade C or above, including Maths & English (or equivalent)
- Level 2 or equivalent qualification related to Administration _(not essential but is beneficial)_
- Experience of working in a school office or busy office _environment (not essential but is beneficial)_
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Ability to respond and engage with children appropriately.
- A good level of IT competency and experience with Microsoft Office i.e. Word, Excel etc.
- Ability to work flexibly and proactively.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to build professional, effective working relationships.
- Work in a positive, solution-focused manner.
- (For a full list of the criteria, please request the Person Specification)_

**The Role**:
Our aim is to provide Children and Young People attending our Educational Facilities, with a calm and nurturing environment to allow them to be supported to reach their full potential. This includes ensuring the day-to-day running of the business is effective, and efficient.

Therefore, day to day duties will involve:

- General administration support.
- Reception duties - answering and fielding calls, responding to queries, taking messages along with data.
- Assisting HR and Recruitment administration
- Monitoring supplies and purchasing resources.
- Attending weekly staff meetings
- Monitoring pupil’s attendance, chasing absences and recording and reporting of these.
- Supporting SLT with generation of reports, and gathering information for pupil reviews
- Updating welcome display board.
- Monitoring budgets - petty cash and classroom budgets
- Supporting with the maintenance of the website
- (For a full list of responsibilities please request the Job Description)_

**Why Work For Us?**

We acknowledge that without the support and dedication of our amazing team, we will not be able to deliver the high level of service we offer, and therefore we offer all permanent employees the following as part of their benefits:

- Extensive inhouse training package available.
- Attendance Bonus
- Loyalty Bonus
- Access to **“*_**Aspire BM Rewards”*_ which includes discounts on:

- Online & Instore across 100’s of retailers.
- Holidays & Airport Parking
- Travel & Accommodation
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (Confidential, independent, and impartial source of support).

**Aspire is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment in every aspect of their work.**

**This post is dependent on satisfactory references, pre-employment checks and an enhanced DBS check.**

**Job Types**: Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £21,313.45 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Work Location: In person