Snr Administrator Educ & Skills

One Friargate, Station Square, Coventry, United Kingdom (Incl. Northern Ireland), CV1 2GN

Contract Type:
Term Time Only

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair:
  We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop:
  We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower:
  We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate:
  We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable:
  We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect:
  We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

The Education Entitlement Service (EES) strives to deliver outstanding services for our customers, predominantly the children of Coventry, who may require access to education or alternative education provision. We ensure vulnerable children are appropriately supported and have a voice, which hopefully leads to their high achievement and excellent progress.

The EES is made up of a diverse range of teams all working together to recognise, support and apply innovative solutions to address the growing issues in relation to trying to educate some of our most vulnerable pupils in schools.

Coventry Virtual School (CVS) is a service provided by dedicated professionals within the Children, Schools and Families Directorate whose work is to promote and co-ordinate educational support for Looked After Children and Care Leavers to succeed at nursery, school, college and university; wherever their place of learning.

The team's purpose is to ensure that all who work with Coventry’s Looked After Children and Care Leavers have high educational aspirations for them, so that our pupils and students are given the best opportunities to engage, progress and achieve to their full potential.

CVS is staffed by professionals who work in partnership with schools, social workers, carers and other professionals. Like all good parents, we ensure that communication about our children is regular and constructive and that we are all working together successfully to help them achieve their potential.

Coventry Virtual School is looking for an organised, enthusiastic and proactive Senior Administrator to join our team.

Coventry Virtual School works across the city and beyond to support the education of children in care and other children supported by the Virtual School. We are a busy, supportive and forward-thinking team, working closely with schools, social care colleagues and a wide range of education professionals to help improve outcomes for children and young people.

This is a varied role at the heart of the service. You will provide high-quality administrative support to the Virtual School team, helping to ensure that our systems, processes and day-to-day work run efficiently.

Your work will include responding to enquiries from schools, professionals and partners; maintaining accurate information across Virtual School and Council systems; processing and monitoring information; producing documents, reports and spreadsheets; supporting meetings, events and projects; and helping colleagues to use administrative systems and processes effectively.

You will often be one of the first points of contact with the Virtual School, so the ability to provide a helpful and professional response and know when an issue needs to be passed to another member of the team is important.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We are looking for someone who is organised, reliable and enjoys working as part of a busy team.

You will:

• have experience of administrative work and using a range of office and IT systems;
• be confident using Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel;
• have strong…