Senior Office Manager
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- Wheelers Lane Primary School Wheelers Lane Birmingham B13 0SF
- Salary
- £33,366 to £40,476 pro rata Subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
- Closing date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Reference
- JOB002944
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- Sector
- Education
- Job Type
- Schools / Academies - Support staff roles, Administration
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- See advert details
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
A Senior Office Manager is required for a full-time permanent role, at Wheelers Lane Primary School, Kings Heath.
Join our fantastic school and help us deliver our vision: “A community of inspiration, aspiration and enrichment.”
We are looking for a Senior Office Manager who believes in this vision and can exemplify this in their daily practice. We take great pride in developing a caring, creative and safe environment for our everyone in our community and we are passionate about our high-quality provision that inspires, raises aspirations and enriches lives.
As Senior Office Manager, you will work with us to:
- operate, maintain and develop the administrative and financial procedures and systems of the school in partnership with Governors, ensuring that all legal and safety requirements with regard to people and property are fully met
- be the point of contact for the school site and its buildings and their maintenance
- manage the efficient and effective running of the school office, devising new systems as required and improving business efficiency and quality standards
The postholder will strategically manage clerical, and administrative support, to enable the delivery of a professional and efficient administrative service.
To be successful in this role, we are looking for you to have the following skills and experience:
- excellent knowledge of financial processes and procedures e.g. Placing orders, processing invoices, bank reconciliation, salary payment reconciliation
- comprehensive Microsoft Excel and Word Skills
- a good overall knowledge of HR best practice such as GDPR policy and procedures and recruitment processes
- experience of working in a school environment would be advantageous but is not essential
- is able to build positive relationships with staff, children and families
- can work as part of a team
- is able to lead and manage a team
- is willing to go the extra mile
We are a full cheque book school, so the impact of Oracle is minimal upon our finance processes. We have BACS set up and working effectively. We will have agreed a package with a new provider for personnel and payroll before the job start date. Support and training from the outgoing post holder will be in place to ensure a smooth transition to the role. The post is to begin Spring/Summer term 2025 (dependent upon notice period). Applicants for the post should ideally have up-to-date knowledge and experience of school finance and HR and have worked in a school office setting.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
Visits to our school are strongly encouraged, please contact Anne Bates on 0121 464 2551 or email a.bates@wlprimary.co.uk to arrange a visit and request an application pack.
Interviews will be held week beginning 7th April 2025. However, we reserve the right to interview strong candidates before the notified closing date and if successful, close the advert.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Company
Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.
We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion. We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
Information for applicants with a disability
We are a proud Disability Confident Employer. We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).
If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.
The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence.
There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
- A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
- An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
- A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
- A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
- A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.
We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.
In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.
Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.
For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies
- Website
- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 0121 675 7070
- Location
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Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom
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