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College Administrator
Job Title
College Administrator
Department
Business Operations
Responsible to
Head of College
Contract Type
Term Time Only + 2 Weeks (permanent, part-year contract)
Hours of Work
9 - 4:30 pm
Salary
£26,754- £34, 497 FTE.
Pro rata salary for 41 weeks (39+2) £23,640 - £30,481
Location
Salford/ Holyoake House Manchester
Job Purpose
To provide a comprehensive and efficient administrative service to the college, with particular responsibility for the coordination of examinations and accreditation of administration. The postholder will act as the main point of contact for the examination board(s) and will liaise closely with the Local Authority on matters relating to V10 submissions and funding arrangements for learners with additional needs, ensuring the college meets its statutory and contractual reporting obligations.
Contract and Working Pattern
Term time only, plus an additional two weeks to support pre-term preparation and post-term completion of administrative and examinations work (e.g. results processing, enrolment preparation).
Exact working weeks to be confirmed annually in line with the college's published term dates, and the two additional weeks agreed with the line manager.
Some flexibility around working hours may be required during college events and open days.
Key Responsibilities
1. General College Administration
Provide day-to-day administrative support across the college, including correspondence, filing, data entry, and record-keeping.
Maintain accurate and up-to-date student records on the college's Management Information System (MIS).
Act as a point of contact for students, parents/carers, staff and visitors, responding to queries professionally and promptly.
Support the organisation of college events, meetings and open days, including room bookings, minute-taking and distribution of papers.
Order, monitor and maintain office supplies and administrative resources as required.
Support other college teams as required during peak periods (e.g. enrolment, induction).
Coordinate applications for learner bursaries and free school meals, ensuring eligible learners are identified and supported through the application process in a timely and accurate manner.
Liaise with relevant staff and external agencies to maintain up-to-date records and ensure compliance with funding and reporting requirements
Oversee and provide mentorship to the Business Administrative apprentice and Office support worker
2. Examinations and Accreditation Administration
Coordinate the administration of internal and external accredited courses, tests and assessments in line with awarding body regulations and the college's examinations policy.
Maintain accurate examination entry data, including candidate registration, entries, withdrawals and amendments within awarding body deadlines
Process and distribute examination results, certificates and related documentation to learners and relevant staff.
Support the coordination of access arrangements and reasonable adjustments for learners, in line with awarding body and Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) requirements.
Maintain accurate records to support internal and external quality assurance, moderation, and accreditation processes.
Assist with the preparation of evidence and documentation for accreditation of visits, audits, and inspections.
3. Liaison with the Examination Board
Act as the college's day-to-day administrative contact with the relevant examination board(s), including submission of entries, amendments and results of queries.
Monitor examination board for correspondence, circulars and deadline updates, and communicate relevant changes to teaching and management staff.
Coordinate the submission of non-exam assessment and moderation samples in line with examination board requirements.
Support the resolution of any queries, discrepancies or appeals relating to examination entries or results.
4. Liaison with the Local Authority
Liaise with the Local Authority regarding funding submissions and associated data returns, ensuring accuracy and adherence to reporting deadlines.
Support the collation and submission of information required for the funding of learners with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and other additional needs, including high needs/top-up funding claims.
Maintain accurate records of additional needs funding allocations, reviews and Local Authority correspondence for individual learners.
Work closely with the SENCO/Head of College to ensure funding documentation reflects learners' current needs and provision.
Act as an administrative point of contact for Local Authority officers on funding, placement and review queries, escalating to Head of College as appropriate.
Support annual reviews and audits relating to additional needs of funding, ensuring evidence files are complete and accessible.
5. Health, Safety and Safeguarding
Help maintain a safe, healthy and secure working and learning environment for staff, visitors and interns/work placement learners, in line with the college's health and safety policy.
Act in accordance with the college's safeguarding and child protection policy at all times, treating safeguarding as everyone's responsibility.
Support the safeguarding of interns, work placement learners and other students on college premises or external placements, including maintaining accurate placement, DBS, and induction records.
Recognise and respond appropriately to signs that an intern may be at risk of harm, escalating concerns promptly to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in line with the college's procedures.
Contribute to a positive, respectful, and inclusive working culture that safeguards the wellbeing of all learners, interns, and colleagues.
Person Specification
Essential
Good general education, including GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics at grade C/4 or above.
Proven administrative experience, ideally within a school, college or education setting.
Experience of, or willingness to quickly learn, examinations, administration processes and awarding body systems.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines and maintain accuracy under pressure.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to liaise professionally with external bodies (examination boards, Local Authority).
Competent user of Microsoft Office and Management Information Systems (MIS).
High level of accuracy and attention to detail, particularly with data handling and record-keeping.
Understanding and commitment to, safeguarding and confidentiality in an education setting.
Desirable
Experience of examinations of administration and awarding body portals (e.g. entries, results, access arrangements).
Knowledge of Local Authority funding processes for learners with SEND, including EHCP top-up/high needs funding.
Experience of working with an Examinations Officer or awarding body directly.
Relevant administrative or examinations qualification (e.g. Certificate in Education Administration, JCQ Examinations Officer training).
Other Requirements
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
The postholder will be required to work flexibly during registration and External Quality Assurance Visits, which may occasionally fall close to term boundaries.
Commitment to ongoing professional development, including attendance at relevant examination board and Local Authority training/updates.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Spear Hammersmith and Fulham
Spear is working in partnership with St Paul’s Hammersmith to deliver the Spear Programme in Hammersmith and Fulham!
At St Paul’s Hammersmith, their vision is to see the church alive, encountering God and awakening cities. Following the call of Jesus to love their neighbour, they want to serve the needs of their local community, creating connection and developing places of safety, strength, and belonging.
The Spear Programme is delivered in Spear Hammersmith and Fulham which offers young people professionally recognised coaching, for free, to support them into sustainable work or education. They leave Spear equipped to thrive in work and life.
Key Information:
For more information please read through our Job Specification and Work with us pack.
If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Person Specification
Spear is a dynamic, growing youth employment charity that coaches young people to overcome barriers and thrive in work and life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title - Paralegal (Immigration & Asylum Law)
Contract - Permanent
Hours - 35 hours per week
Salary - £27,000 per annum
Location - Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UK’s specialist centre for children’s rights championing access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation. Our Legal Practice Unit provides advice and representation in child and family law, education law, community care law and asylum and immigration law.
Part of Coram’s growing Children’s Rights Centre, CCLC is co-located with Coram Voice, the specialist provider of advocacy services for young people in and leaving the care system, in the new Queen Elizabeth II Centre at the heart of our historic campus in Bloomsbury.
About the role
Coram Children’s Legal Centre is looking for a new Paralegal to join our dedicated, friendly and highly experienced Immigration & Asylum team.
The successful candidate will assist solicitors and senior caseworkers in providing legal advice and representation to primarily legal aid funded clients, including children and young people, parents, carers and others in relation to their immigration & asylum needs.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a keen interest in upholding the rights of vulnerable children and young people who is seeking to progress their legal aid career in the charity sector. Our fee earners benefit from a good work-life balance and realistic financial and chargeable hour targets.
Our immigration lawyers work closely with colleagues in other teams in the Legal Practice Unit (community care, family and education law), as well as with other departments within the Coram group, including Coram Voice and the Policy Team. As well as conducting casework for individuals, our immigration & asylum team undertakes strategic litigation for the wider benefit of children, young people and families, and has participated in several interventions in the higher courts.
The successful candidate should be highly organised and able to use their initiative to complete tasks independently, however we also offer excellent supervision and training opportunities, and we support all our employees in their career progression.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: 23rd August 2026 23.59pm (However, we reserve the right to close this recruitment early in the event of finding a suitable candidate)
Interview date: 3rd September 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Tandridge Learning Trust is seeking to appoint an exceptional Director of People & Culture to join our Executive Board.
The successful candidate will build on the positive foundations already established across the Trust and bring the vision, expertise and creativity needed to further develop our people strategy and organisational culture. You will inspire and bring out the best in our staff, demonstrating resourcefulness, resilience and drive, together with a proven track record of delivering effective workforce and organisational improvement.
Working collaboratively as part of a cohesive and high-performing Executive Board, you will provide strategic leadership across all aspects of people, culture and organisational development. You will help ensure that the Trust attracts, develops, supports and retains a skilled, motivated and inclusive workforce capable of delivering the highest standards of education for every pupil.
We are looking for an outstanding individual who will shape and deliver the Trust’s People Strategy, strengthening leadership capacity, staff engagement, wellbeing, performance and professional development across our schools. You will promote a positive and inclusive working environment in which colleagues feel valued, supported and accountable for delivering the Trust’s strategic priorities.
You will possess extensive and well-informed knowledge of effective human resources practice, employment legislation, organisational development and evidence-based approaches to workforce improvement. You will be confident in leading the quality assurance of HR policies, procedures and practices across the Trust, ensuring they are legally compliant, consistently applied and aligned with our values.
You will also lead the analysis of workforce information, including recruitment, retention, turnover, sickness absence, employee relations, performance and staff engagement. You will identify trends, risks and areas for improvement, benchmark the Trust’s performance against comparable high-performing multi-academy trusts and use this intelligence to inform strategic decision-making and targeted interventions.
The ideal candidate will:
The successful candidate will benefit from:
If you are excited by the prospect of this position and believe you can make a difference then we would like to hear from you. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries and you are welcome arrange an informal discussion with our HR team about this position prior to applying.
This is a part time role working in the region of 4 days per week over 52 weeks per annum.
Our vision is to empower every learner to excel and flourish within a culture of inclusion and high aspiration.
Great support has a substantial impact on small environmental charities and the people they benefit. In this role you will be delivering an established, enjoyable, professional development programme for city farms, community gardens and care farms. You'll focus on training, networking and showcase events. The role involves getting out and about, but most of the work is office work. This role does not include any practical gardening or farming activities.
Hours: Three days a week (22.5 hours). Ideally to include Tuesdays.
Salary: Starting salary of £33,573 FTE including London Weighting.
Pension: 5% of salary for standard contracted hours after successful completion of a 3-month probation period.
Holiday: 33 days pro-rata per year including bank holidays.
Contract: 12 months at 22.5 hours a week, subject to passing the three-month probation period.
Location: Co-working space in Highbury & Islington. Frequent travel around London.
Role Overview:
To support the delivery of a popular, enjoyable programme of training, networking and events designed with and for city farms and community gardens. The programme improves the long-term viability of individual city farms and community gardens and builds the network as a whole, contributing to the sustainability of vibrant local communities throughout the capital.
The London Development Officer is part of a London team of two, working closely with the London Development Manager, and staff of city farms and community gardens, including the trustees of the London Association of City Farms and Community Gardens. The London team works with the wider team of Social Farms & Gardens based in the UKs countries and regions.
The London programme is well-established and well-regarded.
Annual outputs include:
· Training days designed and delivered by SF&G members
· Networking tours of community growing spaces
· Showcase events including the London Harvest Festival
Recruitment Process:
Apply by: Midday Monday 17 August 2026.
Interviews: Thursday 27 August.
Start date: As soon as possible. Ideally by 1st October.
Social Farms & Gardens is an equal opportunities employer that understands that the best employees may not always be the best at job applications or interviews. We try to make our recruitment processes relatively stress-free.
You do not have to meet all elements of the Person Specification to be considered for the role.
We do not ask for any formal qualifications as not everyone thrives in a school setting.
We would like you to submit these three documents by email:
· A CV
· A Personal Statement giving specific examples of your experience for each element of the Person Specification
These will be anonymised to minimise bias
· A cover page with personal details
And complete an Equal Opportunities form, online
Full details in the Job Pack.
We look forward to hearing from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Role Overview
This is an exciting time to be joining the charity! Our new strategy focuses on growth and long-term sustainability, with ambitious plans to extend our reach and impact nationally and to expand and diversify our services. Our long-term ambition for the future is a transformed landscape of multi-disciplinary therapeutic support in schools, with UP acknowledged and recognised as a thought-leader, innovator, preferred collaborator and convener.
We are entering a period of significant growth and change driven by our new strategy, and the Clinical Director will play a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of our clinical approach, delivering our strategic priorities, and representing UP as a credible and influential clinical leader.
You will provide strategic clinical leadership and robust clinical governance across the charity, ensuring our services remain safe, effective, evidence-based and responsive to need. You will champion high standards of multidisciplinary practice, leading and developing our clinical workforce, providing clinical oversight and support, driving improvement and innovation, and building infrastructure, capability and clinical excellence needed to support our future growth.
This is a hands-on leadership role that combines strategic vision with operational delivery. While the role balances both strategic and operational responsibilities, we anticipate that, through building internal capability and capacity, the focus will evolve over time towards a greater emphasis on strategic leadership, innovation, growth and impact. There is real opportunity to make this role your own.
We are looking for a strategic, confident and adaptable leader who will thrive in a growing organisation and enjoy working innovatively and collaboratively. You will be able to inspire confidence and credibility across a wide range of audiences, be passionate about the value of multidisciplinary working to achieve the very best outcomes for children and families, and be motivated by the opportunity to lead meaningful and lasting change.
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A charity that supports schools and communities to ensure no child or family struggles alone with their mental health.
Islington Mind is recruiting a Team Leader for our Mental Health Recovery Pathway service, a trauma-informed mental health provision based across three sites in Islington and responding to the mental health needs of residents through a range of therapeutic interventions and community engagement.
You will be responsible for the running of the Isledon Road day centre, leading and supervising a team of staff and volunteers and managing the mental health open-access drop-in provisions, including:
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.