Senior Administrator

**Job Reference #**
- EDV/2025/SJA/09104**Location**
- Pelham Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 2QX**Contract Type**
- Permanent**Contract Term**
- Full-Time**Salary**
- £24,660.00 - £26,750.00 Annually (Actual)
37 hrs per week over 40 weeks per year.**Closing Date**
- 11:59pm, 5th Sep 2025**Positions Available** 1**
**About this Role**:
**We are looking for a Senior Administrator to join our team here at Skegness Junior Academy**

**The role**:
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to make a real difference to their community. As Senior Administrator, you will provide senior clerical and administrative support to the academy. You will be managing and overseeing the academy's recruitment and onboarding activities in cooperation with the Trust's People Directorate.

**Other duties include**:
You will ensure the busy Academy Office provides a professional and timely customer service whilst revieing and updating office administration processes including IT trackers and proformas.

You will be the academy point of contact for Health & Safety, Site Management, and the People Directorate, (including additional hours claims, safer recruitment, SCR administrator, absences and staff inductions.

You will support other Skegness Junior colleagues by raising purchase orders and ordering equipment and supplies, supporting the Principal with a range of administrative duties including supply bookings, maintaining diaries (including staff absence), and taking minutes.

During busy times/staff absence, undertake attendance administration and provide customer service (face to face, e-communications and phone), to parents/visitors.

**You should**:
Possess and excellent telephone and empathetic manner, be adept at building relationships with all stakeholders, be adaptable and flexible and remain calm under pressure whilst working in a busy office.

Prioritising tasks using proven time-management skills and have proven supervisory, organisational and administration skills, while being able to demonstrate your ability to work effectively within a team as well as on your own initiative.

Whilst not an essential requirement, having experience and knowledge of working within an educational environment and with a MIS system such as Arbor would be advantageous.

**About us**:
You can be assured that you will be joining a successful Multi Academy Trust that has a great track record in helping children to succeed no matter what their background. The Trust is dedicated to valuing and developing the workforce whether that be through ensuring a fair workload or offering access to bespoke CPD from the Learning Alliance to enhance professional growth.

**In return we have multiple benefits for our talented and highly valued people**:
Alongside nationally agreed terms and conditions, we offer a generous benefits package. Here's a selection of what's on offer to our people in recognition of the huge difference they make to our children, their families and the communities we serve.
- A free, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme - confidential & compassionate support when you need it
- Train & qualify as a Mental Health First Aider. We aim to have a qualified Mental Health First Aider in each academy
- Eye tests & Spectacles Discount
- Generous public sector pension schemes for everyone
- Family friendly policies and time off for dependants
- Dedicated ECT support programme
- Access to exclusive offers and discounts of up to 20% across Dell systems and electronics
- Access to savings in childcare costs
- Supporting professional development through CPD, Apprenticeships, Upskilling and Professional Review
- Generous annual leave allocation
- Automatic pay progression
- Free parking on all sites
- Principles on workload & directed time for teaching staff
- Professional Supervision for Academy Leaders

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

**Contact Details**:

- Bradley Jacklin

01754 879166