Office Administrator - Part-time

Cobham Primary School, Gravesend

• Ref:KCC886-2094-60S
• Posted:29/12/2025
• Pay:KSB
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:12/01/2026 at 12:00
• Interviews:16th January 2026

Advert

Cobham Primary School exists to broaden the horizons of every child, so that any door is open to them. Our Beacon values are the cornerstone of our school community, and our office team – often the first point of contact people have with our school – are critical parts of this community. 

• Belonging: We include and respect everyone, making sure all feel safe and welcome. 
• Excellence: We always try our best and take pride in what we do. 
• Aspiration: We dream big, ask questions, and love learning new things. 
• Courage: We are brave, try new things, and keep going even when it’s tough. 
• Ownership: We take responsibility for our actions, our learning, and our choices. 
• Nurture: We care for ourselves, others, and our school to help everyone feel safe and happy. 

We are committed to providing an unparalleled level of care to everyone in our community and we are looking for an administrative assistant who can provide a truly important part of this care.  

This role provides administrative functions for the school, working closely with our Office Manager, Finance Manager and site staff to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the school. In our small village primary school, everyone wears a lot of hats and needs to be willing to get involved in all aspects of school life. It is a great, varied role for those who love to get stuck in and take on any challenge. 

We offer a deeply caring team, committed to providing an unparalleled level of care to everyone in our community – including one another. We provide plenty of fun, embracing childhood and all the opportunities it has to offer. As a school, we endeavour to always be innovative and evidence-informed and we have plenty of aspirations to innovate and improve our administrative functions. We invest in our team to ensure the highest quality and work hard to have an aligned team, with open and honest mutual accountability. 

Information about the school

Cobham Primary School is an Outstanding primary school with a strong sense of belonging to a positive school culture, with audacious dreams of excellence for our children and our community. Despite being a small, single-form village primary, we have big aspirations and hope our children do, too - we are always courageous about school improvement and encourage our children to be courageous in their learning, too. We have positive relationships with our local community as well as the network of organisations that we work with to achieve our goals - we aim to be a responsible part of that community and to look after our school and its people. Cobham is proud to nurture its staff as well as its children and our team benefit from a range of support, from excellent professional development, networking, visits to others schools to flexibility and access to all of KCC’s pensions and benefits.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Sarah Dawes - Office Manager
• Address:The Street, Cobham, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 3BN
• Telephone: (01474) 814373
• Email: office@cobham.kent.sch.uk

Fax: (01474) 814373

Documents

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• Job description
• Child protection policy
• Safer Recruitment Policy