Job Description

An administrator's role depends on whether it's a small primary school or a large secondary school, for example, where duties will be divvied up between a team. But expect the role to cover the following:

• welcoming visitors to the school and dealing with their enquiries
• answering the phone
• administration relating to pupil attendance
• managing email/post
• using IT systems to draft letters, emails, reports, newsletters
• monitoring school supplies
• keeping financial records
• keeping paper and electronic records up to date
• using reprographic equipment
• ordering resources, paying invoices and banking cash
• sending key educational data about the school to the Department of Education or equivalent

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities