Senior Leadership Team Secretary

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

19 March 2025

**Job overview**:
St Albans School is a leading independent day school with an outstanding reputation for academic excellence.

We are seeking a highly organised and proactive SLT Secretary to provide comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to the Second Master and the Senior Leadership Team at the School. This role is vital in supporting the smooth operation of the School’s administrative and academic functions, managing pupil records, handling correspondence, and coordinating high-profile School events. Working closely with the Headmaster’s PA, you will help maintain a professional and efficient office environment, welcoming staff, visitors and VIPs.

Hours are full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Very occasional evening working is required when overseeing School events.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must therefore be willing to undergo child protection screening and safer recruitment checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. St Albans School is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and the creation of an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment selections are made according to suitability for the post, irrespective of background or protected characteristic.

Should you have any queries please contact Sarah de Rossi, HR Manager, at

**About**St Albans School**:
**St Albans School**
- Abbey Gateway, St. Albans
- Hertfordshire
- AL3 4HB
- United Kingdom

+44 1727 855521

**St Albans School is renowned for its long and distinguished history. Whilst we celebrate our heritage with pride, we continue to focus on our current and future provision. To this end our ethos, vision and aims - all under our familiar motto - underpin the School’s commitment to educational excellence, both today and in the future.**

**Motto** NON NOBIS NATI (born not for ourselves)

**Ethos** Over seventeen hundred years ago Saint Alban, a seeker after truth, lived and died in this place. Today, more than one thousand years since its foundation, this School which bears his name continues to foster scholarship and intellectual enquiry at the heart of an exceptional holistic education. Enriched by inspirational teaching, wide-ranging academic, cultural and sporting opportunities and strong pastoral care our pupils develop a love of learning together with the values, skills and qualities to enable them to live successful and happy adult lives in an ever-changing world, faithful to the altruism of our motto.

**Vision** To help each pupil flourish intellectually and personally, developing self-knowledge and self-confidence in order to find meaning and purpose in life.

**Goal** To enhance the School’s reputation as one of the UK’s leading institutions for academic excellence at the heart of an exceptional holistic and value-rich education that develops intellectual, personal and interpersonal potential, attractive to pupils, parents and teachers from across the UK and around the world.

**Aims** We aim to deliver our ethos and values, realise our vision and achieve our goal by:

- providing an education that inspires a love of learning and intellectual enquiry and enables pupils to develop independent, searching minds in fulfilling their academic potential;
- offering a broad, flexible and forward-looking curriculum which prepares pupils for success in academic and professional life and leadership roles, enabling pupils to experience a wide variety of sporting, cultural and other co-curricular activities in order to develop skills, interests, ambitions and potential beyond the classroom and the examined curriculum;
- attracting and retaining highly-qualified, talented and well-motivated staff who enjoy the responsibility of inspiring pupils in accordance with the School’s ethos, and investing in their professional training and development;
- providing a safe and welcoming environment underpinned by excellent pastoral care, supporting each pupil to be happy, feel valued as an individual and, with appropriate guidance and responsibilities, develop the self-confidence to become the adult they wish to be, learning the importance of tolerance and consideration towards others;
- providing expert advice so that pupils are ready to derive the maximum benefit from their continuing education and are able to make informed choices about their future career, and working in partnership with parents to support pupils in their journey from childhood to adulthood, preparing them for their departure into the adult world;
- continuing the evolution of the School’s provision, striving for excellence in all aspects of its operations, instilling the highest standards of behaviour, manners, dress and speech, together with encouragement of pride in self and School to develop courteous, sociable and caring adults, and promoting the embo