Executive Business Administrator
Edgar Wood Academy, Heywood, OL10 2QN3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- School Support Pay Scale points 19-24
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Role:
Are you an organised, proactive, and dynamic professional ready to make a significant impact in a thriving educational environment? Edgar Wood Academy is seeking a highly skilled Executive Business Administrator to support our Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
This pivotal role offers the opportunity to be at the heart of academy operations, ensuring seamless coordination and delivery of key strategic and operational activities. You will be responsible for providing high-level administrative support, managing complex schedules, coordinating events, and being a trusted point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Acting as a professional liaison between the Headteacher, SLT, parents, and external stakeholders.
- Proactive diary and inbox management, scheduling appointments, and resolving scheduling conflicts.
- Being the first point of contact for staff absences and liaising with external agencies to provide cover arrangements.
- Organising meetings, preparing agendas, and tracking action points.
- Coordinating key events such as parents' evenings and open days.
- Supporting recruitment activities, HR administration, and maintaining the Single Central Record (SCR).
- Ensuring compliance with GDPR, safeguarding, and health and safety protocols.
What We Are Looking For:
- Proven experience as a PA, Executive Assistant, or Business Administrator in a busy environment.
- Exceptional organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Confidence in managing competing priorities with a solutions-focused mindset.
- Experience within the education sector is desirable but not essential.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
- Competitive salary of £28,218 - £31,168 per annum for term-time only plus 2 weeks
- The opportunity to be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking academy that values resilience, empathy, and responsibility.
- A supportive working environment and a tailored professional development programme.
- Access to Private Healthcare, Discounted Gym Membership, Greater Manchester Pension Scheme, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunities for professional growth and career progression.
If you are looking for a role where your skills and contributions will directly influence the success of the school community, we would love to hear from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to an Enhanced DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applying for the job
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CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Edgar Wood Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 476 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Edgar Wood Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@altusep.com
- Phone number
- 01706 769999
Thank you for your interest in Edgar Wood Academy. We are incredibly excited to have been chosen by the Department for Education to open a new school to serve the local community in Middleton and Heywood. Helping our students realise their potential lies at the heart of everything we do. Through a culture of mutual respect, strong behaviour and high standards, we aim to inspire and engage all pupils, regardless of prior attainment or social background.
By joining our school, you will be part of an exciting journey, building the school from its foundations and helping to create the ethos, values and culture of our school. We believe in strong discipline, which allows our teachers to teach and our students to learn. As a result, we will improve student achievement through high-quality teaching in a safe and caring environment. We value each individual child in our school and recognise that each has different talents and gifts, which we will nurture over the course of their school journey. We will help each student to develop, both personally and academically, so that they have the knowledge and skills to progress to an aspirational career, a fulfilling life and make a positive contribution to their local community.
The school has recently moved into a modern, state-of-the-art building, with stunning views of the local countryside, but within easy access of several motorway links. We can offer the opportunity to shape and develop a curriculum which will capture students’ interests, provoke serious thinking and develop their intellectual curiosity. The curriculum will be culturally relevant to our students and will serve to develop social attitudes and behaviours, celebrate British values and ensure that students have an inclusive approach to their local and global communities. Edgar Wood Academy have an extensive enrichment programme which will ensure that all pupils are engaged in a curriculum suffused with memorable experiences and rich opportunities for learning.
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