PA to Principal
Jane Austen College, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1DDThis job expired on 22 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
May 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale G: £28,015 to £29,935 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£30,559 - £32,654 full time/full year equivalent)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications: • Good level of education preferably including GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
Experience:
• Sound experience of development,
management and operation of
organisational and administrative
procedures (ideally in a school setting)
• Experience of problem solving and of
dealing with and prioritising a wide
range of day-to-day tasks
• Experience of dealing with confidential
information
• Experience of complying with the
General Data Protection Regulations
• Experience of effectively managing
stakeholder diaries
Skills,
Knowledge:
• Able to work on own initiative with
minimal supervision in a highly
professional and confidential manner.
• Demonstrate competency in resolving
complex problems with strong analytical
skills
• Able to build good working relationships
with Trust staff and build and retain the
confidence of the Principal in managing
day to day events on their behalf
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
under pressure, trouble-shoot, and to
meet short-and long-term deadlines
• Ability to build good working
relationships with a range of Trustees,
Academy Committee members, external
stakeholders and to be able to deal with
difficult, often unexpected, situations as
and when they arise in a calm and
effective manner
• Excellent IT skills, including being skilled
in the use of Microsoft Office products
including Sharepoint, Word, Excel, and
Powerpoint
• Ability to work constructively and
flexibly as a part of the wider Trust team
• Effective planning and time
management
• Excellent communication skills, both
written and spoken, in dealing with a
wide range of visitors / stakeholders
• Proactive and flexible approach with the
ability to embrace a fast-paced changing
environment
• Ability to work with tact and diplomacy
• Displays commitment to the protection
and safeguarding of children and young
people
What the school offers its staff
The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Jane Austen College
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1062 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Jane Austen College website
- Email address
- recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
Jane Austen College is a thriving secondary school and sixth form in the heart of Norwich city centre. We combine the modern and traditional, marrying academic rigour and innovative teaching techniques. Our sixth form is one of the top performing in Norfolk and we have been rated by Ofsted as Outstanding in four out of five areas, with an overall rating of Good.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work closely with Charles Darwin Primary and Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form as well as the Trust's other schools around the region.
Arranging a visit to Jane Austen College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.
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