Job Description

Central Office staff work closely with schools, offering a wealth of expertise to underpin schools\xe2\x80\x99 own knowledge. Our specialist departments, including HR, finance, technology, strategy and performance, estates, and marketing, work alongside dedicated school improvement teams. By joining us, you will provide ongoing support to schools, ultimately improving the outcomes of our pupils. The Role: We have an exciting opportunity to provide first point of contact for visitors to our London office and on the United Learning main telephone number. This position will ensure the London office runs smoothly, providing administrative support. Your efficient and meticulous standards will make you a valuable member of this busy office. You will support colleagues by answering external and internal calls, meeting and greeting all visitors, and booking hire cars and taxis. You will also be responsible for managing the meeting room calendars and hot desks bookings, maintaining stationery, liaising with the landlord and processing invoices. This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London Office in London Bridge, 5 days per week. Hours of work are negotiable but based on 08.30 \xe2\x80\x93 17.00 Monday \xe2\x80\x93 Friday being in the office. Total 37.5 hours per week. We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance. Interviews will take place on the 14th December at our London Office. About You You will have experience of working as an Office Administrator in a busy and demanding office and we are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence in working with colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
• Educated to GCSE pass (or equivalent), in English and Maths.
• Excellent administrative and typing skills.
• Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite and Teams.
• High level of initiative, efficiency and flexibility.
• Highly developed organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, multi-task and proactively manage own workload whilst working to deadlines.
• Willingness to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative.

Rewards and Benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 26 days holiday.
• Occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family.
• Competitive maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits.
• Extensive range of employee benefits through our partner Perkbox.
• Continuous Professional Development options that will be tailored to your needs.
• A supportive team across the country.
• We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance.

United Learning: We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It\'s an ethos we call \xe2\x80\x98the best in everyone\xe2\x80\x99. We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation \xe2\x80\x93 which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit, and we are open to discussing flexible working options.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.