Salary: £35,000 – £42,000 (Depending on experience)
Job type: Part Time, Permanent
Start date: Immediate start
Apply by: 30 January 2024
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Admissions Manager
Reporting to:
Director of Admissions
Tenure:
Part-time, 30 hours
Salary:
£35,000 – £42,000 (Depending on experience)
Start Date:
ASAP
Application Deadline:
9am, 30 January 2024
To apply online please follow the link
Job Role:
To support the Director of Marketing and Admissions, in their role to provide a first-class service to prospective families and pupils, ensuring that they receive professional advice and support throughout the admissions process, helping to meet targets for pupil intake for all ages 4-18.
Key Responsibilities
- Builds and maintains excellent external and internal levels of interaction and relationships and promotes Guildford High School to all enquirers and applicants and other educational institutions
- Deals promptly with numerous admissions enquiries via email, online applications, telephone, and in person and follows up such enquiries as appropriate
- Organises and attends visitor and new joiner events held at the School and from time to time at local schools
- Produces written correspondence for prospective families, content for Admissions section of the school website and assists with production of new joiner information packs
- Helps to plan and facilitate entrance assessments for all year groups
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The successful candidate will have demonstrated the following essential (E) or desirable (D) skills and experience:
Education and qualifications
- Educated to degree standard, or equivalent, and/or experience in an education setting (D)
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Experience using the full suite of Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Forms, PowerPoint (E)
- Experience of using school admissions or other databases (D)
- Experience of school admissions and/or customer focussed environment (D)
Personal skills and attributes
- An excellent level of written and spoken professional English, with the ability to tailor responses to different audiences (E)
- A helpful, professional, and courteous telephone manner, with the desire to make follow-up calls when appropriate (E)
- A proven ability to juggle multiple demands, to prioritise and manage competing deadlines, and remain calm under pressure (E)
- Strong organisational skills and an ability to use own initiative (E)
- Acts with tact and diplomacy, works well with multiple teams (E)
- Able and willing to occasionally work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends (E)
- A commitment to safeguarding our students in line with the School’s safeguarding policies (E)
