Joint Clerk to the Governors

Chenderit School, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 2QR

12 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
12 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 2024

Job details

Job role: Administration, HR, data and finance
Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Term time: 21 meetings per year
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: £114 per meeting

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, efficient, flexible and adaptable person with a friendly and helpful approach as Joint Clerk to the Governors.

As Joint Clerk to the Governors, your primary responsibility will be to organise governing body meetings, recording an accurate record of their work, keeping Governors up to date with changes in legislation and advising on governance issues. You will be required to attend approximately 21 committee meetings at the school each year normally held between 6.00pm and 7.30pm

You will be required to work under your own initiative, manage deadlines, update and keep accurate written and electronic records and ensure records held at Companies House are accurate and updated.

Experience of secretarial work, including minuting of meetings, is essential, as is access to a computer and knowledge of Microsoft Office. The ability to remain impartial, comply with data protection legislation and maintain confidentiality is paramount. Training will be provided where required.

What the school offers its staff

Following our graded inspection under Section 5 of the Education Act 2005 on 27 and 28 September 2022, we were delighted and proud to have been judged good overall and outstanding for our sixth form. Ofsted states: “Leaders have high expectations for every pupil’s behaviour and attainment. Pupils and students are polite and helpful”.

Chenderit is an oversubscribed and very successful school located a few miles from Banbury and with easy access to the M40

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school operates a rigorous recruitment process to ensure candidates’ suitability to work with children. All posts in school are subject to disclosure of criminal records. An online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates.