Your newpany
A school in the East Lancashire area is seeking an experienced and highly organised School Administration Lead to join their dedicated team on a full‑time, full‑year basis. This is a pivotal role within the school, supporting senior leadership, managing admissions, coordinating staffing processes, and ensuring the smooth running of all administrative operations. School experience is preferred, as is a start in June or July.
Your new role
As the School Administration Lead, you will oversee a wide range of administrative, admissions, staffing, andpliance functions.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Referrals & Admissions – managing LA consultations, coordinating assessment and parental visits, maintaining referral records, updating information, and ensuring all documentation is processed accurately.
2. Fees & Funding – checking termly headcount, issuing starter/leaver forms and updating ie spreadsheets
3. Senior Leadership Team Support - producing agendas, attending and minuting weekly SLT meetings, distributing minutes, and tracking actions.
4. Staffing Administration - posting vacancies, liaising with SLT on shortlisting, arranging interviews, processing contracts, DBS checks, maintaining the Single Central Register, and updating staffing records.
5. Training Coordination - arranging statutory training, monitoringpliance, booking courses, diarising sessions, andmunicating training information to staff.
6. General Administration - PA support to the Headteacher, maintaining calendars, GDPR updates, pupil filing, managingmunication systems, updating school documentation, managing DfE transfers, GDPR, and responding to a wide range of parent and stakeholder enquiries.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be an experienced administrator with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload. You will bring:
7. Experience in a school or education setting (preferred)
8. Excellentmunication and interpersonal skills
9. Confidence handling sensitive information and maintainingpliance
10. Strong IT skills and the ability to learn new systems quickly
11. A proactive, solutions‑focused approach and the ability to work independently