Lead Administrator - Information Management Team

Job Overview

Woodcote High School is looking for an enthusiastic and committed Lead Administrator to oversee our busy and thriving Information Management Team.

Woodcote High School is a fantastic place to work and learn. We have recently joined The Collegiate Trust whose vision of an exceptional education for all accurately describes the ambitions we hold for our students. They are bright, well-motivated and a pleasure to work with, whilst our staff are talented, hard-working and ambitious for themselves and others.

What does the role involve?

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated individual and highly skilled lead administrator with a positive and welcoming disposition to oversee the administrators in your team and you will be responsible for ensuring a very high quality of service. This will require effective professional leadership skills, an ability to motivate and influence others and an individual who will, at all times, act as a confident role model with emotional intelligence. The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills and experience, as well as an ability to manage a complex workload and troubleshoot, as necessary. A working knowledge of school systems would be an advantage.

This is a new, exciting and very fulfilling post, providing excellent preparation for further promotion and, naturally, there will be high quality support and opportunities for further professional learning and development in the role.

Who are we looking for?

The Job Description and person specification shown in the application pack will give you a good indication of who we are looking for, including the skills and experience that would make for our ideal candidate.

About Woodcote High School

At Woodcote High School, our purpose is excellence. We are robust in the delivery of lessons ensuring that we enthuse a thirst for knowledge and develop confident, critical thinkers who embrace challenge. In creating an exceptional learning environment, we will meet the needs of all our students, supporting them in their journey to reach their full potential. We want to ensure that our students live by our ASPIRE values of High Ambition, Self-reliance, Perseverance, Inquisitiveness, Respect and Enthusiasm for life. We have developed our curriculum to be not only academically rigorous, but to foster a culture of success in our students.

About The Collegiate Trust

TCT has grown out of Riddlesdown Collegiate, a large, outstanding (OFSTED, March 2023) secondary school in Croydon with a longstanding reputation for high standards and an exceptional education. Since 2015, our Trust has been growing and, today, we are a family of 8 schools with c.6000 pupils and 800+ employees. The planned addition of a further secondary school will bring our Trust to c.7000 pupils and c.1000 employees.

How to apply

For more information, on what you will be doing, who we are looking for, the school and the Trust please download the Application Pack.

We reserve the right to interview and appoint candidates prior to the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

TCT has grown out of Riddlesdown Collegiate, a large, outstanding (OFSTED, March 2023) secondary school in Croydon with a longstanding reputation for high standards and an exceptional education. Since 2015, our Trust has been growing and, today, we are a family of 8 schools with c.6000 pupils and 800+ employees. The planned addition of a further secondary school will bring our Trust to c.7000 pupils and c.1000 employees.