Senior Administration Officer

Cherry Tree Academy, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 2HN

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Monday 21st April 2025

• Closing date

  3 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  5 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 6 Actual £23,067-£25,022 (FTE £27,711-£30,060)

Senior Administration Officer job summary

Waterton Academy Trust is looking to appoint a Senior Administration Officer to join the team at Cherry Tree Academy.

Cherry Tree Academy is on an exciting school improvement journey with all stakeholders firmly committed to providing high-quality education for all pupils. We seek to ensure that every pupil achieves their full potential and develops a sense of belonging to our school community and family of schools.

Waterton Academy Trust is a forward thinking Multi Academy Trust of 13 partner schools, serving the Wakefield and Barnsley districts.

Our ideal candidate will:

Has the drive, passion and motivation to work hard in providing an excellent service for the Trust and its stakeholders

Is highly organised and a confident communicator

Has good working knowledge of IT including Microsoft packages

Thrives in a busy environment supporting across a number of areas showing resilience and exceptional team working ability

Has experience of working within an office environment, ideally with some school/Trust experience

Is adaptive in an ever-changing environment

Is sensitive and fully able to maintain confidentiality

Appreciates the role that efficient administration and organisation can play at the heart of a school

In return we can offer:

The support and expertise of the school’s leadership team and wider Trust School Improvement Team

A modern, bright and spacious learning environment (recently developed and refurbished)

The opportunity to work alongside colleagues who are wholeheartedly dedicated to the pupils and community they serve

A commitment to support your continued professional development through a network of experienced professionals across the Waterton family of schools

The opportunity to contribute widely to school improvement

A health and wellbeing package

Commitment to safeguarding

Waterton Academy Trust is committed to ensuring children and young people are fully supported and safe and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Safer recruitment processes are followed which all applicants will be subject to. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful candidate and two satisfactory references. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of any unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to interview.
The Trust is committed in ensuring that all employees and applicants are treated equally and fairly.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Cherry Tree Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 243 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Cherry Tree Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cherry-tree-academy-wf8-2hn (opens in new tab)

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