Post: School Administrator/ Customer Service Officer

Contract Type: Temp to Perm

Salary: £20,043 - £21,695

Hours: 37 hours, full time, Monday to Friday

Location: Darwen, BB3

Sector: Secondary school

About The Role

This role requires more administrative function, but you will also be required to carry out the responsibilities of a receptionist. We are seeking someone with admin experience and IT literate.

Specific Responsibilities
• Deal with telephone and personal enquiries from customers (staff, parent/carer(s), visitors and members of the public), ensuring accurate messages are clearly relayed to recipients
• Signing in visitors, ensuring that the safeguarding procedures are maintained in line with Academy policy
• Taking delivery of parcels, informing estates, ensuring they are delivered to the recipient and no parcels are visible to visitors to the Academy.
• Hospitality – providing refreshments for visitors
• Assist with school events during the school day, e.g., visits... by the school nurse, photographer, linked schools, parent/carer(s), etc.
• Undertake word processing and other ICT based tasks including the production of letters, reports, schedules, etc.
• Provide general administrative support, e.g. reprographics, photocopying, filing, emailing, and completing routine forms and responding to routine correspondence.
• Maintain manual and computerised records and/or management information systems.
• Sorting and distributing the internal and external mail.
• Undertake routine administration of school lettings and other uses of school premises.
• Provide routine clerical support in relation to examination invigilation as and when required.
• Provide routine clerical support in relation to the production and distribution of specific materials, e.g. school newsletters, school prospectus, etc.
• Manage small administration projects
• Administer the schools’ electronic communication system
• Manage the schools’ room bookings

If you are interested in this role, please reply directly to this email with your up-to-date CV. If successful in short listing, Emily Billington will be in touch to discuss your application further

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

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