PA to COO, Business Operations Administrator, and School Office Manager
PA to COO, Business Operations Administrator, and School Office Manager
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About the role:
A highly professional, experienced and efficient PA is sought to provide direct support to the Chief Operating Officer and to oversee the function of the School’s Main Reception and Office. This is a senior role, ensuring the highest level of assistance to the Chief Operating Officer, and also supporting the Development Director, and other Business Operations managers, as required.
Job Overview
About the role:
A highly professional, experienced and efficient PA is sought to provide direct support to the Chief Operating Officer and to oversee the function of the School’s Main Reception and Office. This is a senior role, ensuring the highest level of assistance to the Chief Operating Officer, and also supporting the Development Director, and other Business Operations managers, as required.
What Your Days Will Look Like
The role will be situated in the front office, the centre of the Business Operations area. As one of two key PAs, your responsibilities will include:
* Managing calendars, scheduling and diary management, and arranging meetings;
* Establishing and maintaining parental relationships, supporting meeting materials, co-ordinating schedules, logistics and diary invites;
* Travel and expense management;
* Building strong relationships across, and outside the school;
* Managing the front office (including reception);
* Resource management and scheduling for the front office;
* Co-ordinating responses to educational establishments and authorities;
* Supporting the Marketing, Development and Admissions departments;
* Ad hoc projects and tasks.
For the full person specification please visit: https://www.morehouseschool.co.uk/vacancies/support-staff-and-volunteer-vacancies/full-time-permanent-pa-to-chief-operating-officer-and-office-manager
Hours
9.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. Occasionally you may be required to extend your hours of work for the proper performance of your duties and responsibilities, for example attending Governors’ and other meetings after School, as agreed with the Chief Operating Officer.
All staff are required to attend INSET days, and Founders’ Day on the Saturday immediately following the end of the summer term.
What You’ll Receive From Us
* Salary £35,000 - £40,000 per annum, depending upon skills and experience;
* Pension there is a contributory pension scheme in operation specifically for non-teaching personnel. As governed by pension legislation you are automatically opted into the scheme on arrival. Contributions towards your own personal pension plan may be made, but again this will be at the discretion of the Governors with the forementioned restrictions;
* Sick-pay;
* Employee Assistance Programme;
* Cycle to Work Scheme;
* Parking – on-campus parking within the School’s beautiful grounds;
* Meals – excellent meals whilst working, at no cost in the School’s refectory;
* Fitness gym – free use of the School’s fitness gym facilities (outside of normal school hours).
The Team
Education
The Main School Office is a critical element of the School’s operations and provides a direct interface with all stakeholders, including prospective and current parents, funding local authorities, schools and universities, the press and marketing organisations, therapeutic and educational professionals, students, external safeguarding partner agencies and a variety of educational and charitable bodies. The Main School Office team also comprises:
* The PA to the Headmaster and Head of School
* Two full-time (term-time-only) Receptionists
* The Annual Reviews Manager, who provide direct support for the Director of Assessment and Therapy
* The Academic Administrator, who provides direct support to the Deputy Head (Academic)
* The Specialist School’s Administrator, who provides direct support to the Assistant Head (Training and Outreach)
Why More House?
Nationally celebrated, More House School provides an exceptional, mainstream education for intelligent boys with Specific Learning Difficulties and weakness in their developmental language skills. Providing a transformative education repeatedly recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted over more than a decade, we offer a specialised learning environment for day and boarding boys from Year 4 to Year 13. Our pupils are taught to recognise their strengths and develop their self-belief so that they achieve independence and extraordinary results at GCSE, BTEC and A’ Level, above the national averages. A majority progress to university.
Our staff are inspiring and committed to the school’s shared vision: To lead in transforming the futures of intelligent children who experience Specific Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorders, and associated conditions, by empowering them.
The School has an 85-year history of supporting boys with additional challenge in their educational experience. Now with 500 pupils, the School has grown significantly in recent years and has the largest number on roll ever. It is recognised as being the largest SEND-specialist provision in the United Kingdom and is heavily involved in outreach work. More than half of pupils have their places funded by their local authorities.
Safeguarding
This role is deemed to be one of working in regulated activity, meaning that the post-holder may expect to come into unsupervised contact with children and young people frequently in the discharge of their duties on-campus. As such, the expectations of conduct, required of all adults working at More House School, apply to this position, as does a full Safer-Recruitment vetting process of any appointee. A key responsibility of all adults working within the School is that of ensuring the effective safeguarding of all children and young people, through adherence to the School’s policies; full-training is given.
To Apply
Please visit our website www.morehouseschool.co.uk, and complete the online application form: https://www.morehouseschool.co.uk/supportapplicationform
Closing date for applications: 25th July 2025
Interviews expected to be held on: TBC
Interested candidates are welcome to make an appointment to visit the school for an informal visit. The School reserves the right to interview appropriate candidates in advance of the above-named dates, and to appoint
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