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Administrative and Operations Officer

The Compton School, London, N12 0QG

This job expired on 22 January 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  March 2025

• Closing date

  22 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 January 2025

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: £29,725.00 - £31,055.00 Annually (Actual) SP13-16, 36 hours per week, term time only + 3 weeks

Administrative and Operations Officer job summary

Do you want to work in as part of a team to provide excellent operational, organisational, and administrative support to an outstanding school?

We are looking for a hardworking, dynamic, reliable, and flexible Administrative and Operations Officer with excellent skills and a high level of personal drive. You will work within the Administrative and Operational Support team to provide outstanding administrative support and customer service to all our stakeholders. Previous experience in a school is not essential, as it is more important for us to have someone with a positive and can-do attitude and the enthusiasm to become an integral part of our team.

The successful candidate will need to:

• Have excellent communication, numeracy, and literacy skills
  
• Have experience working in an office environment and a real willingness to understand the issues facing schools and the administrative provision they require
  
• Have excellent IT skills including Word and Excel and have experience developing systems and processes
  
• Have experience of working in a multicultural environment.
  

Why work at The Compton School, part of the Middlesex Learning Trust?

• You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, teacher training and student outcomes
• You will be working in an exceptional, fully staffed School Office/Administration Team
• Collaborative opportunities for sharing of best practice across the Trust
• Exceptional professional development: The Compton School works alongside a local Teaching School Hub to deliver key professional development programmes – this provides our staff access to National Professional Qualifications including Senior Leadership, Leading Teaching, Leading Literacy and Headship. The Outstanding Teacher Programme is also a fully funded CPD opportunity which is facilitated on site
• A commitment to staff wellbeing, including a 2-week autumn half term, scheduled INSET days, staff-run Wellbeing Team, staff socials, a staff choir, cakes in the staffroom every Friday, a cycle-to-work scheme and wellbeing afternoons.

Who are we?

We are a massively oversubscribed school that has had five Outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in March 2024. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely put the school within the top 10% of schools nationally for progress.

At The Compton we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a workplace environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future.

The Compton School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are proud of our diverse school community, and we are committed to delivering our ethos of ‘Excellence for All’ in an inclusive and supportive working environment in which everyone is valued. 

For a confidential and informal conversation to discuss this opportunity, please contact Jennifer Presland (School Business Manager) on 020 8216 8028.

Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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About The Compton School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1349 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Compton School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-compton-school (opens in new tab)

The Compton school is part of Middlesex Learning Trust, a successful Multi Academy Trust. We are a hugely oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had four consecutive outstanding OFSTED reports, the most recent being in January 2018. The Compton has a national profile for excellence in teaching and learning, in leadership, and for student outcomes. It is also a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training Centre and the Headteacher is an experienced National Leader of Education. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely putting the school within the top 5% of schools nationally for progress.

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