Job title: Ark Blake Academy PA/Office Manager
Location: East Croydon – Ten-minute walk from East Croydon station
Contract: Permanent; 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (FTE 1.0)
Start date: January/February 2022
Salary: Ark Support Scale 8: Pay points 20-24 £28,991 - £31,044
Closing date: 09 January 2022
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis
Opportunity for an exceptional candidate to be a PA/Office Manager, shaping a new Ark secondary school in East Croydon.
Ark Blake Academy opened in September 2020 with 180 Year 7 pupils and welcomed our second cohort in September 2021 and are already providing children in East Croydon with an excellent academic education, based on our strongly held values.
At Ark Blake, we seek to transform lives through education. We believe that each of our pupils is born with unique potential for greatness and can take responsibility to achieve this. We believe that by aiming high, working hard and living according to Ark Blake’s values, our pupils can seize greatness, lead lives that bring fulfilment and strengthen their communities.
Exemplary behaviour and a spirit of ‘always learning’ have helped us to create a culture where greatness is the expectation. We now wish to add an exceptional PA/Office Manager as a member of our talented and committed office team. The successful candidate will share our relentless drive to provide excellent customer service for every pupil, parent and stakeholder. They will share our vision for a school where pupils take responsibility to ‘seize greatness,’ achieve academic excellence and flourish as knowledgeable, confident, articulate, responsible citizens, who live according to Ark Blake values.
The role
The successful candidate will work with the Principal and Senior Leadership Teams to provide comprehensive and effective administrative support, manage the school calendar and diaries and ensure that visitors to the academy are welcomed into a friendly and professional environment. You will supervise the school office team including reception, admissions and attendance and will support the Operations Manager with HR administration including recruitment and induction of staff, payroll and pensions, performance management, safeguarding and casework.
As part of the wider staff team you will uphold the vision and ethos of the school at all times and provide excellent customer service to a range of stakeholders.
You will demonstrate:
• Excellent team working skills
• Empathy, patience, reliability and consistency
• Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every pupil
• Flexibility, proactivity and a willingness to change approaches when necessary
• Deep commitment to Ark’s mission of providing an excellent education to every pupil, regardless of background
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken
• High level of self-awareness and self-management in stressful situations
• Resilience, motivation and committed to achieving excellence
• Ability to be reflective and proactive in seeking feedback to constantly improve practice
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training
View the full job description and person specification BLK PA/Office Manager JD_PS.docx
For more information about our school, please visit: www.arkblake.org. To arrange a confidential conversation with the Principal about this role, please contact: info@arkblake.org.
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process which will include questions about safeguarding. This process is outlined here, but can be provided in more detail if requested. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.