People Coordinator
Eastern Multi Academy Trust, King's Lynn, PE30 4QG24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week (over 4 or 5 days). Term time + 4 week contract.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,598 to £31,022
Actual salary
- £21,572 to £23,400
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated People Coordinator to join our dedicated and supportive team and grow your career in HR.
You’ll play a key role in keeping our people processes running smoothly and delivering a positive employee experience. Acting as a first point of contact, you’ll use your strong customer service skills to support colleagues throughout the employee life cycle, including HR administration, managing employee queries, absence management, payroll data, system administration, and recruitment and onboarding activity.
Within this varied role, you’ll have the opportunity to develop a specialism in either recruitment and onboarding or payroll, data and system coordination.
Whatever your role in the Trust, your work will directly support our mission to deliver the best possible education.
About You
- Level 3 CIPD in People Practice (or equivalent) or working towards
- A completer finisher with experience administering or coordinating people processes
- Excellent attention to detail and high standards of accuracy
- Confidence and experience with IT systems including One Drive, MS Teams, and HR/payroll systems
- Strong customer focus, and communication skills
- Expertise in end-to-end recruitment and onboarding or payroll and data is highly adventurous
- Experience in Education or Local government is desirable
What the school offers its staff
At EMAT, you’ll be part of a supportive, forward-thinking Trust that invests in its people and we offer all employees:
- A leadership team who listen and act on feedback.
- Wellbeing support, including access to employee assistance programmes.
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working opportunities.
- Being part of a Trust that values inclusion, diversity, and collaboration.
- Peace of mind with some of the most generous pension schemes in the job market.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Eastern Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- peopleadvisoryservices@eastern-mat.co.uk
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Eastern Multi Academy Trust website. Here you will find information on our academies as well as key trust documents that we hope you will find useful, through the links above.
We are proud of every one of our children and colleagues for their hard work and commitment to Transforming Lives, Transforming Communities. We believe that schools should be at the heart of the communities that they serve and play their part in ensuring that all children receive a great education to allow them to take their place in the world of work or further study.
Formed in 2017, we exist for the benefit of the children and the communities that we serve across West Norfolk, Breckland (Norfolk) and Brandon (Suffolk). We currently support 12 schools ranging from Infant academies through to our Secondary academy in King’s Lynn, and have a track record in supporting schools to achieve success for their children.
Our academies promote effective learning through inspirational teaching to improve academic standards. We are proud that all of our academies have reaped the benefit of being part of our Trust and have demonstrated significant improvement.
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