Administrative Officer - Leith Academy

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Administrative Officer
Leith Academy

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

Leith Academy is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly organised person to join our busy school office team. The successful candidate will have experience of working in a busy office environment and be willing to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service. They should work well under pressure and have very strong time-management skills.

Key areas of responsibilities of this role are the Administration of the SQA process in school, management of School Fund, updating the school Timetable and supervision of a team of clerical assistants to provide a first class support service to the whole school community.

The successful candidate will require high levels of organisation, accuracy and attention to detail, with the ability to work to exacting deadlines and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

They will also be competent users of ICT and have knowledge and experience of using databases, spreadsheets and word documents.

Desired qualities:

• Flexibility
• Empathy
• Resilience
• Organised
• Commitment to providing the best care and support to our young people
• Ability to quickly form positive relationships with staff and young people
• Energy and a positive attitude
• A good sense of humour

Working hours will be:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 8.00am – 4.00pm

Friday 8.00am – 2.30pm

If more specific information on the post is required, please e mail the Business Manager on nicola.fielding@leith.edin.sch.uk or for more information on Leith Academy go to https://leithacademy.uk

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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