Trust Estates Administrative Assistant
Asset Education, Ipswich, IP4 2LT37 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
15 January 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
- £26,404.00 - £28,624.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 4, Point 9 to Point 14
Trust Estates Administrative Assistant job summary
Contract Details: Full time 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
The role
ASSET is an Education Trust comprising 14 primary schools in Ipswich and north-east Suffolk. We have an ambitious, future-facing vision to equip and empower our young people to create a more compassionate, equitable and sustainable world where they personally and collectively thrive.
Due to a new phase of growth and development we wish to appoint an exceptional individual to join our central services team. This is a new role designed to support and the administration of estates in our growing trust.
It would see the post holder being responsible for the administration of the preventative and reactive maintenance across the Trust. This will involve managing contractors, scheduling and pre-planning works and staff availability. The postholder will also be responsible for the management of the estates helpdesk, monitoring and triaging requests, ensuring that tasks are allocated and completed in a timely manner. There will be a need to use analytical, judgemental, creative and developmental skills to solve varied problems or develop solutions.
This post will be based in our Central Office at Cliff Lane Primary School but there will also be some travelling to school sites so a full driving licence is essential.
Please read our Job Description for further details.
Who are you?
You must be calm and self-motivated with excellent organisational, office and time management skills, with the ability to use your initiative and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines.
You must also have a desire to develop your current skills and experience into a specialist area.
You should be fully conversant with standard software such as Excel/Google Sheets and Word/Google Docs.
You will have a keen eye for detail, have good English and maths skills and you will care about order, systems and accuracy.
You will need to be confident in working independently, organising your own schedule and managing your own workload.
You need to be willing to engage with a range of people including Trust and school staff and contractors.
You will be pivotal in the smooth running of our site management team.
This post will be reporting directly to the Trust Central Services Manager and will (be based in Central Office Cliff Lane but will also involve working in
different locations across Suffolk).
For further details, or to arrange an initial discussion please contact:
Sarah Winter, Director of Operations, Asset Education – sarah.winter@asseteducation.co.uk
Please also see our website – www.asseteducation.co.uk
ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Asset Education
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
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