Senior Administration Assistant

at  Inspiration Trust

Academy: Trust Central
Category: Administration (Central Services)
Start Date: January 2025
Closing Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2024
Job Weeks: All Year Round
Hours: 37 hours per week
Type: Permanent, Full Time
Job Reference: OCT20246436

As Senior Administration Assistant, you will be responsible for supporting the smooth running of our staff development courses. You will use your skills and experience to provide support to our schools and education team, under the direction of the operations manager. This role is office based, working in a small, friendly team of business support staff. We are based just outside of the city and free parking is available.
You will be responsible for: communications between departments, schools and external partners; calendar management; events planning; online systems and general administrative tasks.
You will be a skilled communicator, have excellent written and spoken English, and have a good level of computer literacy. This is an exciting role for someone to join a progressive team.
Inspiration Trust has twice been ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believes in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. The Trust provides strong networks with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. The Trust is committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities to all our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners.
Inspiration Trust feels it is important to support every school by centralising certain support services. In turn this reduces workload on senior leaders, helping to establish further value for money on a variety of integrated services. This also ensures the Trust’s Academies have a local support structure and share best practice. As a Trust we will continue to review the services we offer and are committed to making them responsive to individual Academy’s needs.
The Trust’s dedicated Central Services Team is based at the Hewett Academy in Norwich. This team provides a strong range of school support services including:
Finance
Governance
Human Resources and Payroll
Operations, including Estate management, Health and Safety, ICT and Marketing
For information on what it is like to live and work in Norwich, click here.
When you join Inspiration Trust’s thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.
We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.