PA to Head/SLT of Girls' School
Haberdashers' Girls' School
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £38,442 - £41,244 Annually (FTE) Dependant on Experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 October 2023
Job overview
9 Month Fixed Term Contract (Full time 08.00am-17.00pm)
The PA to Head/SLT is an integral and senior member of the school's administrative team providing excellent, confidential secretarial support to enable the Head to undertake their role of leading and managing the school.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young persons for whom they are responsible and with whom they come into contact.
- Provide a comprehensive and confidential secretarial service to the Head / SLT of the Girls’ school, including but not limited to:
- Maintain the SLT/Head's diary and arrange appointments as necessary.
- Arrange attendance at internal and external meetings, events and conferences including registration, travel, and accommodation arrangements, prepare papers etc.
- Arrange internal meetings and events (including school social events) including venue and refreshments. Where relevant preparing agendas and papers as directed and coordinating attendance.
- Manage correspondence - mail, email, telephone for the Head/SLT copy, distribute or delegate as appropriate to relevant individual staff members. Ensures all enquiries are processed within one working day.
- Research and draft replies to correspondence and Head's file notes.
- Draft a range of communications for the Head including, confidential references for staff and students, end of term letters, emails, and speeches.
- Ensure the production and uploading of weekly parental letters.
- Undertake reception duties for the Head.
- Confidentiality and record management - to maintain and keep secure administration files, pupil and staff records. Maintain a high level of confidentiality and ensure the security of all records and comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
- Ensure that all routine office procedures are carried out and office equipment is properly used, maintained and serviced.
Closing date: 8:00am, Friday 6 October 2023
Interviews expected: Ongoing
We are reviewing applications as they arrive and we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the stated deadline. Early application is advised.
Haberdashers’ Girls’ School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check.
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About Haberdashers' Girls' School
Founded in 1875, Haberdashers’ Girls’ School, Elstree is a leading independent day school for girls aged 4–18. The School’s academic results place it amongst the highest-ranked schools in the UK.
It provides a challenging, positive, stimulating and secure community in which students enjoy working hard to fulfil their potential. The co-location of the School with Haberdashers’ Boys’ School provides the best of both worlds: an excellent single-sex education within a co- educational environment.
The School traces its roots back to the 17th century when its founder, Robert Aske, established the principles that guide it to this day – to give talented and ambitious young people the opportunities they need to succeed in life. Its priority is the education of the whole person, amongst other bright, well- motivated students, taught by a highly qualified, committed staff. In partnership with parents, it aims to provide every student with the intellectual, cultural, physical, moral, personal and spiritual resources she needs to give her confidence to go forward in a changing world.
The School is a diverse community which nurtures a global perspective and a deep sense of responsibility for the world in which its pupils will lead and succeed. Its excellent pastoral care, broad academic curriculum and far-reaching co-curricular provision prepare students for success, wherever their passion may take them.
Today the School educates approximately 1,250 girls from the age of 4 to 18, including 320 in the Junior School and 220 in the Sixth Form. Admission to the School is by competitive selective assessment, and students enter at 4+, 7+, 11+ and 16+.
On its most recent visit in March 2022, the Independent Schools Inspectorate rated the School “Excellent” in all areas.
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