PA to Principal & Clerk to the Local Governing Body
Chatham Grammar, Chatham, Kent, ME5 7EH14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
December
Closing date
28 November 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
14 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,730.00 - £25,533.00 Annually (Actual) £27,152 - £30,536 FTE
PA to Principal & Clerk to the Local Governing Body job summary
Join Our Team as Principal’s PA & Clerk to the Local Governing Body
Are you an organised, proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment? Do you have a passion for supporting leadership and ensuring strong, effective governance? We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Principal’s PA & Clerk to the Local Governing Body (LGB) to play a vital role at the heart of our school’s operations.
In this pivotal position, you will provide exceptional executive support to the Principal and senior leadership team, enabling them to focus on strategic priorities, school improvement and pupil outcomes. You will also lead the administrative and procedural work of the Local Governing Body, ensuring governance is efficient, transparent and fully compliant with Trust and statutory requirements.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver high-quality clerking for the Local Governing Body, including preparing agendas, documenting meetings and maintaining accurate governance records.
- Provide comprehensive executive support to the Principal - managing diaries, coordinating meetings, preparing documentation and supporting key leadership functions.
- Coordinate and minute SLT meetings, ensuring actions are clearly recorded and followed up.
- Oversee school-level compliance activities, including policy management, data protection processes, Subject Access Requests (SARs) and breach reporting.
- Manage the school complaints process and administer legal behaviour decisions with accuracy and professionalism.
- Work closely with the Trust Central Team to maintain consistent, high standards of administration across the school.
- Support whole-school events and governance activities, contributing to a culture of professionalism, discretion and continuous improvement.
About You:
You will be an organised, detail-focused professional with excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships. You will thrive on responsibility, be confident navigating complex information and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality and professionalism at all times.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact by helping shape the effectiveness and success of our school’s leadership and governance.
If you are committed, motivated and ready to take on a key role at the heart of our school community, we’d love to hear from you.
The successful applicant will be coming to a multi-academy trust-wide supportive learning environment, characterised by open management, and in the knowledge that they will enjoy the full support and care of the pragmatic (and down-to-earth) leadership team. We have a dynamic, innovative team of professional staff who want to make a difference to the lives, aspirations and opportunities of our young people. We would encourage applicants to visit the UKAT website to view the many employee benefits on offer: https://www.universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk/careers-with-ukat.
Chatham Grammar offers its students a wide variety of educational opportunities with a commitment to ensuring that its students achieve good educational outcomes, develop healthy minds and aspire to be happy confident young women ready to embark on a variety of aspirational careers. It benefits from being part of the University of Kent Academies Trust and has a current Ofsted rating of Good. Chatham Grammar is proud of its comprehensive website and would encourage applicants to visit for further information: http://www.chathamgrammar.org.uk/.
How to Apply
Your application should be completed after reading the job description and person specification. Please use the application form to demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role, and why you believe you are a strong candidate.
We are committed to attracting top talent to our inclusive Trust and welcome applications from all members of the community, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender reassignment, age, or sexual orientation.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
We review applications as they are received and reserve the right to interview suitable candidates at any stage of the recruitment process. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
The University of Kent Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). In addition, the Trust will carry out an online search, once, as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is intended to help us identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online. The selection panel will then explore such items with the candidate during interview. The Trust’s HR Team or another member of staff trained in safer recruitment, will use Google.com to conduct each search and no adverse judgement will be formed for applicants with limited or no online footprint.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The University of Kent Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service
(DBS).
In addition, the Trust will carry out an online search, once, as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Chatham Grammar
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 950 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Chatham Grammar website
Chatham Grammar (CG) is a selective 11 – 19 girls academy (with a mixed sixth form) whose Lead Sponsor is the University of Kent. Chatham Grammar is part of the established University of Kent Academies Trust (UKAT).
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