Business Administration Apprentice

This well-established Northampton-based school are now looking for a Business Administration Apprentice to provide an excellent service and administration support to school managers and teaching staff. You will be required to assist in any administration function to support the needs of the school mainly within the Careers department.

Key responsibilities:

- Provision of administrative, secretarial and clerical support to the school.
- Perform receptionist duties as required.
- Production of good quality, accurate and timely correspondence, reports and other documents.
- Data entry onto the school’s information system (SIMS) as appropriate.
- Learn how to use our Career platforms such as Unifrog and Compass plus.
- Be able to support with paperwork for trips.
- Ensure all postal requirements are met.
- To type documents and letters, some of which will be on confidential nature, as required by school staff.
- Type test sheets, work sheets and reports in support of the curriculum.
- Set up meetings and take minutes as required.
- Provide support to any other administration team member as required.
- To help organise careers fairs and other relevant activities in conjunction with the Careers Leader.
- Maintain and develop contacts with universities and other FE/HE providers, Education Business Partnership, other local schools
- Update Teams Career related pages regularly
- To always maintain confidentiality in respect of school related matters and to prevent the disclosure of confidential and sensitive information in line with the principles of Data Protection.
- Professional practice in terms of personal presentation, attendance and punctuality
- To abide by all measures to safeguard young people.
- Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Prevent duty guidance) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
- Work with the designated safeguarding lead to promote the best interests of pupils, including sharing concerns where necessary
- Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school

Person specification:
You will need to have a 4/C or above in GCSE Maths and English, experience using Microsoft systems such as Word and Excel, ability to prioritise, good communication skills, organised and hard-working.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Apprenticeship

Pay: £6.40 per hour

Expected hours: 37 per week

Application question(s):

- What grades did you achieve for Maths and English GCSEs?

Work Location: In person