Job Description

Beaconsfield Primary school has a vacancy for an experienced full-time administrative assistant to work within our admin team. We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed person with proven experience of secretarial skills and computerised office systems in a school or education environment to provide administrative support to the school business manager; the head teacher and senior leaders

 

You should have prior experience of working with senior staff in a school or educational environment and ideally good knowledge of school office systems (SIMS & FMS) along with all Microsoft Office programmes. You must be able to prioritise your own work with a minimum of supervision, manage challenging and conflicting deadlines as well as being an enthusiastic team player at all times. The work at times will be demanding but always interesting and varied.

 

You should be able to:

 

• demonstrate excellent office and secretarial skills, preferably with customer facing experience in an office role
• work with a minimum of supervision
• set own priorities and meet all deadlines
• liaise professionally with a wide range of people both face-to-face, on the telephone and via email
• provide high-quality administrative support services and manage on-going projects
• prepare written documents relating to projects, bids and government requirements with accuracy and attention to detail
• complete general clerical and financial work
• manage some budgets and use finance software for order management

 

You must have experience in:

 

• maintaining computerised systems using all Microsoft programmes inc. Publisher, Word, Excel (tested at interview)
• communication and interpersonal skills
• excellent numeracy and literacy skills (tested at interview)

Closing date: application forms to be submitted to the school by Friday 25 September 2020 at 3:00pm

Interview date: Friday 2 October 2020

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• maintaining computerised systems using all Microsoft programmes inc. Publisher, Word, Excel (tested at interview) • communication and interpersonal skills • excellent numeracy and literacy skills (tested at interview)