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Administration Manager - Full-time

Skinners’ Academies Trust

  • Ref:KCC-F32-17-S
  • Posted:14/10/2025
  • Pay:SAT Band E (£27,852 - £29,716 pa for full time)
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:07/11/2025 at 12:00
  • Interviews:w/c 10 November 2025

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Administration Manager

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly organised Administration Manager to join our friendly primary school team. This key role will oversee the smooth running of our school office, ensuring efficient systems are in place to support staff, pupils, and parents. The successful candidate will bring excellent communication and leadership skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage a busy and varied workload. As the first point of contact for many families, you will play a vital part in creating a welcoming and professional environment that reflects our school’s values.
 
Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, 42 weeks per year (Term Time plus INSETS) and an additional 3 weeks
Start Date: November/December 2025
 
Role Purpose
To lead, manage and co-ordinate the primary school’s administration systems and reception function ensuring general workflows, facilitating communication throughout the school and developing procedures to make the workplace effective and efficient.
 
Provide the leadership and management to the office at STG, by ensuring that delegated tasks relating to parent and student facing work is completed and that overall responsibility is accountable to the officer manager.
 
Support the Headteacher with PA and administrative duties to ensure effective management within the school.
 
We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
 
 
The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.  
 

Information about the trust

The Trust comprises of Skinners’ Kent Academy and Skinners’ Kent Primary School.

The Academy opened on September 1st 2009. It is an independent, non fee-paying, mixed, all ability school, funded by the DfE and supported fully by its lead sponsor The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys and the Skinners’ Company. The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is founded on the principles of a culture of high standards and high aspirations, a culture of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive environment where every child is known and every learner supported.

The main aim of the Academy Trust is to provide the highest quality of education for students, from Reception to Year 11 and the Sixth Form. The Academy Trust aims to raise and reflect aspirations within the local community and provide education, social and economic benefits for all.

We aim to find and develop everything that is exceptional in each child and let it flourish within a framework of high expectations. We intend to motivate and inspire our students to achieve of their very best, to fly high, and to set course on the brightest of futures.

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Alison Drury
  • Address:Sandown Park,
    Sandown Park,
    Tunbridge Wells,
    Kent,
    TN2 4PY
  • Telephone: 01892574258
  • Email: hr@skinnerskent.org.uk

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.