Estates Administrator
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £26,500 - £28,500, dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 2 April 2024
Job overview
The role
If you are an experienced administrator, this position offers the opportunity to play a key role providing administrative support to a friendly and dynamic Estates team at one of London’s top day schools.
The Estates team at Wimbledon High School is responsible for the security and maintenance of the school’s building and facilities, ensuring the highest standards are always met.
As Administrator for the team, one of your main responsibilities will be managing the Estates helpdesk. This will involve managing workflow and creating worksheets for the team and liaising with contractors as required.
General duties will include ordering supplies for the team, raising purchase orders, taking minutes at meetings, and coordinating resources for school events.
About you
To be considered for this role, you will need strong IT skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office as well as the ability to manage and maintain records and manage the online helpdesk system.
You will also be able to work as part of a team, manage your time effectively and use your own initiative. Good literacy, numeracy and communication skills are pivotal to this role.
You will have at least a basic understanding of Health and Safety and a willingness to undertake Health and Safety training. You will have at least a basic knowledge of fire safety, security, and emergency procedures. You will have a willingness to undertake relevant training, which will support your progress and development in the role and within the Estates team.
About the School:
One of London's top day schools, Wimbledon High School GDST is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London. Our motivated students are challenged to believe in themselves within a stimulating environment and there is a 'can-do' attitude throughout the school, with girls involved in all sorts of clubs and activities.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date is 9.00am on Tuesday 2 April 2024. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 9 April 2024.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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