Education Business Administrator

Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  25 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week All Year Round
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,584.00 to £27,269.00 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a talented individual to provide an exceptional business administration service to our pupils, teachers and wider stakeholders. As a key member of our central education business support team, your expertise will help to deliver an outstanding learning environment for our young people.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and specialist technical skills. You will have extensive experience of delivering outstanding customer service and possess the ability to develop relationships across our schools and the Star community.

You will have:

Essential:

• 5 GCSEs (incl. Maths and English Grade 5 or above)
• A Levels at Grade ‘C’ (or NVQ Level 3 at grade DDD) or above.
• Excellent analytical skills, good attention to detail and experience in maintaining accurate records.
• The ability to work effectively to deadlines and manage contributions from others.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a professional setting.
• Experience of drafting reports and producing spreadsheets.

What the school offers its staff

Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Institute and our schools.

The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

JDPS - Education Business Administrator.pdf - 118 KB (opens in new tab)

About Star Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: info@staracademies.org
• Phone number: 0330 313 9800
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/star-academies

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