- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 255 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Meadows Primary School website
Senior Administrator (Leading on Admissions and Recruitment)
More than one location, Avanti Schools Trust23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 37.5 hours per week Term time + 4 weeks (41 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 6, £30,811 - £32,693 per annum, pro rata Approximately £27,299 - £28,967 per annum (0.88602FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Join our Bishop’s Stortford school community as a Senior Administrator and play a key role in supporting families, staff and students throughout the admissions and recruitment journey.
This position offers the chance to work in a collaborative and supportive environment where your organisation, initiative and attention to detail will make a real difference.
You will take ownership of key processes, contribute to effective communication across the school and help ensure daily operations run smoothly and efficiently. Alongside leading high-quality administrative support, you will work closely with school leaders and external partners to uphold our commitment to excellent service.
We welcome applications from individuals who take pride in their work and are keen to contribute to a positive and well-organised school environment.Join us and help shape a welcoming, well-run school community where every detail you manage makes a meaningful difference.
What will you do?
- Oversee and administer all school admissions processes, ensuring compliance with statutory codes, maintaining accurate records, and managing communications with prospective and current families.
- Coordinate and deliver school-level recruitment administration, including coordinating activities on our applicant tracking system and managing school-side activities related to interviews and induction.
- Maintain accurate student, parent and staff data across key systems, providing reports and supporting statutory returns such as the Census.
- Support appeals, consultations, transition activities, recruitment fairs, open events, and multi-agency meetings, ensuring all documentation and follow-up actions are completed.
- Contribute to effective school operations by line-managing administrative staff, supporting colleagues, attending required meetings and events, and ensuring high standards of confidentiality and compliance.
What are we looking for?
- Ability to plan and implement effective actions to support students with poor attendance or punctuality.
- Highly organised with good time management skills and the ability to work under pressure and independently.
- Adaptability and flexibility in working practices and the ability to use their initiative.
- Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues, students and parents and work as part of a team
- 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
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
- NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.
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
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About the schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
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.
School Details
Avanti Meadows Primary School
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
Avanti Brook Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 67 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Brook Primary School website
Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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