Administration Assistant - Gateshead, United Kingdom - Gateshead Council

Gateshead Council

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Gateshead, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Required for 1st May 2023 or earlier if possible.

Rowlands Gill Primary School is a welcoming and happy school.

We can offer you a warm and supportive working environment as part of our admin team, but most importantly we offer delightful, enthusiastic children who will make you smile.

In return, we are looking for an organised, efficient and experienced administrator to join our team.

Our school is sited in a modern, impressive building with lots of space, fabulous outdoor areas and well-equipped office areas.

We are a Local Authority Maintained School, currently catering for 207 children aged from 3 to 11 and we support a strong and hard-working team of 30 staff.

We are well-regarded in our local community and pride ourselves on doing the best we can for our children, families and staff every day - our school is a lovely place to be.

As an Administrative Assistant you would work alongside our Administration Officer, in the day-to-day running of school administration and computer systems.

Key aspects of the role include:
- first port of call for parents and visitors who enter via the main entrance
- sending out communications to parents; contacting parents in emergencies
- maintaining attendance records and monitoring of pupil attendance
- resource ordering, stock control and distribution
- processing orders and invoices on Agresso and some cash handling
- updating the school website
- supporting the teaching team with general admin tasks
- organising trips and coaches for educational visits
- using Arbor, Agresso, Microsoft including Office 365, SharePoint, Excel and Word
- photocopying, filing, maintaining records
- organising repairs to computer equipment and photocopiers etc across the school
- reporting repairs for the school building

Applications should be made through the Gateshead Job's Application Website.

Interviews will take place on the morning of Friday, 31st March 2023.