Administration Assistant

Giles Junior School, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 4JQ

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  2nd September 2026

• Closing date

  23 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,525.00 Annually (Actual) Term Time only - Occasional INSET Days in addition to the salary.

Administration Assistant job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available at our state of the art school. This is an excellent opportunity for an highly motivated administrator.

Our ethos of ‘Excellence in Leadership’ is at the forefront of everything that we do. The successful candidate will take on general admin duties to support within a well established admin team.

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience in general clerical/administrative work
• Experience of operation of administrative systems
• Able to organise and manage time efficiently and effectively whilst being flexible
• Maintains confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisations skills
• Excellent ICT skills and experience using Microsoft Office packages
• Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
• Confidence and ability to relate well to children and adults; proactive friendly ‘can do’ attitude
• Shows enthusiasm and commitment to undertaking tasks as required and in particular in seeing tasks through to completion
• Takes responsibility for work tasks and quality, managing own workload and deadlines in conjunction with manager guidance
• A good sense of humour
• A knowledge of school student MIS systems would be an advantage (specifically Arbor)

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Giles Junior School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 346 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Giles Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/giles-junior-school

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