Business and Media Administrator

Extend Learning Academies Network, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BH

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  29 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  29 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: E4 - £23,089.02 - £12,480.55

Business and Media Administrator job summary

Do you thrive on variety, love a challenge, and stay cool under pressure? Do you have a natural talent for organisation, excellent people skills, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities while keeping your sense of humour intact? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Location: Locking, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset

This role is for up to 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, but we offer flexibility — ideally a minimum of 20 hours per week can be worked across Monday to Thursday

Actual salary: £23,089.03 (37 hours per week, term-time only) 

                         £12,480.556 (20 hours per week, term-time only)

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract with the potential to extend subject to review

We are looking for someone who is:

• exceptionally organised and detail-focused, with the ability to manage a demanding and varied workload

• calm, diplomatic, and considerate — especially when things get busy

• proactive with a solutions-focused approach, with the confidence to take initiative

• able to demonstrate strong IT skills and an ability to adapt to different systems and processes

• a positive, team-player attitude, willing to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in.

You will be:

• working term-time only (39 weeks of the year) supporting central team and ELAN schools to ensure everything runs smoothly

• providing high-quality administrative support across a wide range of functions, from meeting minutes to communications and websites.

• handling confidential information with absolute discretion and professionalism

• managing diaries, coordinating and recording meetings, ensuring deadlines are met — even when the unexpected happens, which it does!

• communicating confidently with a range of stakeholders from school leaders to external partners

• problem-solving and adapting quickly when priorities change - as they often do!

What you can expect:

• we are helping you take care of your future with a pension contribution well above average.

• we are helping you take care of your family, by offering five paid care days (on a pro-rata basis). For more information about all of our benefits, please visit our benefits page.

• we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. Our goal is to ensure that every pupil and staff member feels included and supported, encouraging a community where everyone can thrive together.

• we provide quality, ongoing professional development and network opportunities.

This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving environment, where no two days are the same. If you’re looking for a role that will keep you on your toes, challenge you, and give you the chance to make a meaningful contribution to the education sector, we’d love to hear from you.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. We encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 Extend Learning Academies Network

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/extend-learning-academies-network

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