Trust Operations Administrator
Ashill Community Primary School, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9ND26 days remaining to apply
Closing date
17 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,992
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Trust Operations Administrator in Somerset to support the daily operations of our family of primary schools. The operations administrator's responsibilities will include liaising with contractors, compliance record keeping and asset inventory, maintaining records, responding to maintenance issues and providing administrative support as needed.
This role will suit someone with previous experience of working in an operationally demanding role and knowledge of an educational setting would be an advantage. It is essential to have good planning and people management skills and the post will particularly appeal to people who thrive on the buzz of unpredictable daily challenges in a busy school community. Academies for Character and Excellence operates collaboratively so liaison with other schools within the Trust, including travel to other sites is a feature of the role.
To be successful as an Operations Administrator you should be able to:
- Demonstrate experience as an operations administrator or in a similar position.
- Display strong organisational and administrative skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and data management software.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multitask
- Be highly organized and thrive under pressure.
- Self-motivated, reliant, diligent, analytical and numerate, solution focussed with a positive attitude
- High attention to detail - IT literate and confident working on systems and excel
What the school offers its staff
The Academies for Character and Excellence has seventeen Primary Schools and two Pre-schools covering Torbay, Devon and Somerset making up a dynamic and innovative learning organisation.
We live our mission and return to this constantly to help guide every action. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional trust, comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of collaboration, community, Integrity, equity, and of course uncompromising excellence. We are truly collaborative, and we work together within and across our schools to ensure that all our children and members of staff achieve their potential.
Interested? If you would like to join a trust and be part of a supportive and highly skilled team, and if you can inspire others and enable them to reach their full potential, then we would welcome your application. We offer excellent opportunities and development for all our staff throughout their careers.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to charlotte.wilson@acexcellence.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Ashill Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 46 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
- Phone number
- 07762 859361
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