Office Manager
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further details
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 7. £33,070 - £34,557 per annum, pro rata. Approximately £29,301 - £30,618 per annum (0.88602 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Grade 7. £33,070 - £34,557 per annum, pro rata. Approximately £29,301 - £30,618 per annum (0.88602 FTE)
About us and the role
At the heart of the school’s day-to-day operations, this senior administrative role plays a vital part in ensuring everything runs smoothly, efficiently and in the best interests of pupils and staff.
Working closely with the Head of School and the Learning Village Business Support Manager, the postholder will lead and coordinate the school’s administrative function, providing professional, high-quality support across all areas of school life. From managing daily cover, resources and compliance, to line managing staff, supporting safeguarding and contributing to the strategic development of the school, this role offers the opportunity to make a real and visible impact.
It is ideally suited to an experienced, highly organised professional who thrives on responsibility, values collaboration and takes pride in creating strong systems that enable a school community to flourish.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- To have responsibility for developing and ensuring that all school procedures are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance.
- Be responsible for the submission of relevant information to Senior Leadership Team, the SSC and outside agencies
- To prepare and monitor risk assessments for school trips.
- Ensure the most effective use is made of the school’s administrative computer hardware and the development of the computerised management information system within the school.
What are we looking for?
- Level 2 (GCSE A*-C) or equivalent in English and Maths
- Relevant Management Qualification (Education) or significant experience with experience in managing and leading staff
- Experience of project management e.g. building projects
- Ability to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels e.g. Governors, leadership team, teaching staff, contractors, caretakers
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 464 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Grange Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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