Administration Manager
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 1 September 2024
- Apply by:
- 10 July 2024
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator with line management skills to play a key role as Administration Manager at one of London's top day schools.
You will be responsible for the line management of the Reception Team, plus Administration Assistant and all office and administration services for Wimbledon High School, ensuring these are provided to agreed standards. There will also be a requirement to support the Director of Finance & Operations as per the job description.
You will provide all school staff with a comprehensive administrative support service so that they can undertake their roles with maximum effectiveness. You will also provide a customer-focused and efficient reception service to visitors and telephone callers, presenting a welcoming and professional image of the school.
This role is a 12-month fixed term contract starting from 1st September (with possibility to start sooner if there is availability).
Holiday Entitlement: 30 days plus bank holidays
First class organisational and administrative skills, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of office management processes are essential requirements.
You will need administrative experience in a complex organization in addition to proven experience of handling sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy. The ability to remain calm under pressure and work to tight deadlines is equally important.
About the School:
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
The closing date is 9.00am on 10 July 2024
Interviews will take place on 17 July 2024
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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