Senior Administrator in London

Employer: Avanti Schools Trust

Location: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Contract type: Permanent

Start date: As soon as possible

Job ID: 1526435

Salary: Grade 6, £30,811 - £32,693 per annum (pro rata £27,299 - £28,967 per annum)

Senior level: Mid‐Senior Level

Employment type: Full‐time

Job function: Information Technology / Administrative and Support Services

Responsibilities

• Oversee and administer all school admissions processes, ensuring compliance with statutory codes, maintaining accurate records, and managing communications with prospective and current families.
• Coordinate and deliver school‐level recruitment administration, including managing activities on the applicant tracking system and school‐side tasks related to interviews and induction.
• Maintain accurate student, parent and staff data across key systems, provide reports and support statutory returns such as the Census.
• Support appeals, consultations, transition activities, recruitment fairs, open events and multi‐agency meetings, ensuring all documentation and follow‐up actions are completed.
• Contribute to effective school operations by line‐managing administrative staff, supporting colleagues, attending required meetings and events, and ensuring high standards of confidentiality and compliance.

Why should you apply?

Avanti exists to help each person become a well‐rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place. You will be working in a fantastic environment with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eligibility for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well‐being programmes (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle‐to‐work scheme

What are we looking for?

• Ability to plan and implement effective actions to support students with poor attendance or punctuality.
• Highly organised with good time management skills and the ability to work under pressure and independently.
• Adaptability and flexibility in working practices and the ability to use initiative.
• Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues, students and parents and work as part of a team.
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students.

Further information

Pre‐employment checks: Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re‐checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre‐employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion: We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics, including (but not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.