Administrative Assistant to the Director of Rowing

Great Marlow School, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 1JE

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  20 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.21 Hourly Depending on experience

Administrative Assistant to the Director of Rowing job summary

Administrative Assistant to the Director of Rowing

• Job Title: Administrative Assistant to the Director of Rowing
• Salary Range: £12.21 per hour (depending on experience)
• Contract Type: Temporary
• Hours of Work: 20 hours per week (working hours and days to be discussed and agreed with the Director of Rowing depending on the needs of the department)
• Working Weeks: 39 weeks per year (Term Time Only)

The Role

Great Marlow School is looking to appoint an Administrative Assistant to the Director of Rowing. The Administrative Assistant will be working with the Director of Rowing to ensure all policies are followed, ensuring coaches, rowers, staff and parents/carers are kept fully informed on what is happening both in the immediate daily routine and over the full season.

As well as supporting the Director of Rowing with the necessary administration of the club. The administrative assistant will have responsibility for British Rowing registrations and affiliations, race entries in a timely manner. Final crew line ups for racing should be checked by the relevant coach to ensure we have accurate entries on the day.

Great Marlow School Boat Club (GMSBC)

Great Marlow School Boat Club (GMSBC) was re-established in 2008 and is known for its competitiveness in rowing at national and international level. The club has enjoyed substantial successes at all of the National Events including winning 1st Eights at the Schools Head, Winning Championship Boys Quads at the Scullery Head and over twenty students gaining International Selection in the since 2012.

The club has around 120 members from Year 8 to Year 13, boys and girls, who train on the river at Marlow, a 20 minute walk from the school.

Please see job description for further information

Great Marlow School and the Marlow Education Trust has a responsibility for and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and for ensuring that they are protected from harm, therefore it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
• All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

The post is subject to an enhanced DBS including the children's barred list check and qualifications check.

As part of Great Marlow School and the Marlow Education Trust's pre-recruitment due diligence checks, online searches may be conducted for shortlisted candidates.

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of cultures and all sections of our community.

Please note that applications will be reviewed as received and should a suitable candidate be identified, we may close the vacancy early. Therefore, early application is encouraged.

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

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all staff must share this commitment. The successful applicant will be expected to undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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 Great Marlow School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1428 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Marlow School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-marlow-school

Great Marlow School is a large co-educational secondary school located in the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The school has around 1,450 students aged 11-19, with over 200 attending the sixth form.

Founded in 1961, the school converted to academy status in 2011 and in the last six years has invested £9 million in developing the school facilities including a state of the art sports centre, sixth form centre and performing arts accommodation. The Redgrave Sports Centre was named after former pupil and Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave, he opened in the centre in May 2013. The school and the sports centre are a 'hub' of the local community and host events and activities throughout the evenings, weekends and school holidays.

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