School Administrator - Gylemuir Primary School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

School Administrator
Gylemuir Primary School

Salary: £24,064 - £26,468 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 32 per week, 40 weeks sessional

Working pattern - 8.30am to 4.00pm (Monday to Thursday) and 8.30am to 12.30pm (Friday)

Gylemuir Primary school is excited to be offering a School Administrator position within our School Office.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the management, organisation and supervision of administrative support staff. They will provide and operate financial management, integrated management information and budgetary information systems and services for the school. Within the framework of Council and Departmental procedures they will determine priorities, allocate work to staff, monitor performance, respond to problems arising and generally ensure that services are operating effectively.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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