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The following content displays a map of the jobs location - Edinburgh Location: George Watson's College, Edinburgh Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £24,460 - £27,296(based on 36.25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year) Benefits: A utomatic enrolment in the contributory support staff defined contribution pension scheme, reduced school fees at George Watson's College for children of staff, Membership of the Galleon Club (the school's fitness club) The Role We are looking for a highly skilled and personable colleague to join our front line administration team in the Junior School. The job holder will provide administration support, particularly to the Deputy Heads and staff of Lower Primary, but this role has a particular focus on maintaining school data within several management information systems/databases. We are currently on a journey to implement iSAMS by August 2026, so it is essential that candidates are experienced iSAMS users who are highly skilled in the use of Excel and data maintenance and analysis work. The Administrator also undertakes reception work; answering phone calls, greeting visitors, supporting parents and children, and plays a crucial part in keeping our children safe. Hours of work will be 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.00pm, Fridays 8.00am to 3.30pm, 46 weeks per year (36 weeks of term time plus professional learning days and a further two weeks during holiday periods). The annual leave entitlement is seven weeks per year making a total of 46 weeks. The salary for this position will be in the Grade 2 range which currently stands at £27,090 - £30,231 per annum (based on 36.25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year). This equates to £24,460 - £27,296. APPLICATION PROCESS To apply, please click the Apply for this job button. Please include a letter of application of not more than 800 words giving us more information about you and why you consider yourself to be a strong candidate for the role, addressed to Mrs Su Breadner, Chief Operating Officer. Closing date: 11:59pm on Wednesday 14 January 2026 Interviews are scheduled to take place on Thursday 22 January 2026 Main Responsibilities Administration Responsibilities: Provide administrative support to the Deputy Heads, Principal Teachers and Assistant Principal Teachers. This work is varied and high volume. Working in a small team any of the following tasks may be required; diary management, arranging meetings, preparing timetables, processing assessment details, organising trips, events, meetings. It also includes producing spreadsheets, reports, typing minutes, photocopying, filing, and producing printed materials such as labels, booklets and worksheets. Daily, process pupil absence information, check registers, record known absences, identify potentially missing children, report to Deputy Head and phone parents as required. Prepare reports. Sending emails on behalf of Deputy Heads and other staff, preparing letters for Parents (for email distribution or publishing on the School's Weekly Parent Digest). Assist with preparation for school trips including, booking of venues/accommodation/transport, sending information to parents, collating permission slips and ensuring risk assessment forms are completed. Annually negotiate pricing with external platform providers and make recommendations to JS management for agreement. Place orders, e.g. teaching materials or stationery and check order against delivery. Assist with the preparation of school events, e.g. performances, by ensuring rooms and other resources are booked, timely notices to parents. Keep up-to-date with details of School events and information available on the School website, in order to provide parents and visitors with general information regarding school activities. Receive and deal with Lost Property items and liaise with Thrift Shop volunteers. Occasional handling of cash e.g. for school visits and charity collections. Provide cover to other administrators across the whole school, as required. Ensures compliance with General Data Protection Regulations when handling personal data and information relating to data subjects, whether that be on the management information system, paper records or when in discussions with others. Reception Responsibilities: Provide a first class Reception service, by acting as the first point of contact for the school, welcoming visitors and responding to telephone and email enquiries in a helpful and constructive manner, and representing the School with a positive attitude and professional appearance at all times. Ensure the safety and security of the Junior School at all times, by making sure that entry to the premises is controlled. Ensure all visitors have signed in appropriately and are provided with an identification badge, asked to read the visitor briefing notes, notifying the relevant employee/ department of their arrival if necessary. Handle all telephone calls promptly and efficiently, directing and screening calls, as appropriate, and taking and forwarding messages in an accurate and timely manner. Handle all general enquiries, by phone, email and in person, ensuring that all enquiries are either dealt with successfully within the reception, or promptly and professionally forwarded on to the most appropriate colleague. Communicate with parents regarding all aspects of School life, receiving and passing on information, between parents and teachers, including phoning parents to ascertain reasons for pupils' absence. Ensure that the Reception area is kept smart and tidy and that displays of School publications are kept up-to-date. Database Administration Setting up all data structures which are needed for the school to operate effectively. Provides technical support and guidance on core data systems to Junior School colleagues and other Administration colleagues in the wider College. Examples of current tasks which the job holder is responsible for include: Creation of School Year, Timetables and Registers Before the start of the academic year, populate the Junior School system with the session dates and create the periods for the day which allows the creation of timetables and registers. Crucial this is accurate and timely as once committed it cannot be altered and the entire JS operation depends on this being correct. Curriculum Support confirms accuracy. Before the start of the academic year, transfer all the children from the closed year to the new year, changing class, removing leavers, adding new children, additional/new classes where relevant, in all external platforms (e.g. Mathletics, Accelerated Reader, Spellzone, Maths Investigations, Seesaw, Education City). Maintain this data across the year. Once the system is set up for the new academic year, and prior to session starting, receive information about timetables from Deputy Head(s) LP/UP, from PE, Drama, Art, Music and from this generate subject sets. Create subject sets (c500) for each class, English, Numeracy, Literacy, Spanish, Art, Music, Drama etc attaching class, teacher, pupils, location, times and days which ultimately creates the timetable which teachers use. Ongoing maintenance of this data as required across the year. Data Maintenance Ensures the school management information systems are kept up to date with pupil information, e.g. change of circumstances, medical information, dashboards, Mathletics, SpellZone. Entries must be accurate and timely. Testing At key tracking points across the year (termly) work closely with Deputy Head (LP) to organise the testing programme. Agree dates of testing, share on central calendar with staff, decide whether enough test papers are in stock, maintain stock control, order papers where needed, consider supplier lead times, prepopulate external sites with data of children, dob, gender, names, class. Without this info the child cannot take an online test and for paper tests, the results could not be recorded by the testing company to the right child. Once results are available generate a csv file and import into a markbook. Create markbook tasks. Each test has a name, therefore getting the naming convention accurate is essential, as this is pulled off onto the dashboard. Allocate teacher, children being reported, additional markers. Assist teachers with entering scores/grades, as required and provide technical support/guidance. Report Production Ad hoc, creation of reports from the management information systems, e.g. running pre designed ODBC reports, creating new (if basic) or seeking help from Senior School Deputy as required. Present data in various formats e.g. excel, graphs, pivot tables to Management/Staff/Annual Report. Typical reports include individual/ cohort performance, performance by subject. Interim and End of Session Reports for parents Twice a year, using Google sheets creates blank templates for teaching staff to complete with comments on the pupils and grades for attainment/approach etc. Create a reference page to accompany the template, which involves populating with data about the pupil. Once a teacher has completed the template, the job holder reformats through a merge process to create a pre designed PDF document for sharing with parents by the Communications Team. Any changes that are requested by parents are made to the final report. Once finalised, individually assign a pupil record . click apply for full job details

We are looking for a highly skilled and personable colleague to join our front-line administration team in the Junior School. The job holder will provide administration support, particularly to the Deputy Heads and staff of Lower Primary, but this role has a particular focus on maintaining school data within several management information systems/databases. We are currently on a journey to implement iSAMS by August 2026, so it is essential that candidates are experienced iSAMS users who are highly skilled in the use of Excel and data maintenance and analysis work. The Administrator also undertakes reception work; answering phone calls, greeting visitors, supporting parents and children, and plays a crucial part in keeping our children safe. Hours of work will be 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.00pm, Fridays 8.00am to 3.30pm, 46 weeks per year (36 weeks of term time plus professional learning days and a further two weeks during holiday periods). The annual leave entitlement is seven weeks per year making a total of 46 weeks. The salary for this position will be in the Grade 2 range which currently stands at £27,090 - £30,231 per annum (based on 36.25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year). This equates to £24,460 - £27,296. APPLICATION PROCESS To apply, please click the Apply for this job button. Please include a letter of application of not more than 800 words giving us more information about you and why you consider yourself to be a strong candidate for the role, addressed to Mrs Su Breadner, Chief Operating Officer. Closing date: 11:59pm on Wednesday 14 January 2026 Interviews are scheduled to take place on Thursday 22 January 2026 Main Responsibilities Administration Responsibilities Provide administrative support to the Deputy Heads, Principal Teachers and Assistant Principal Teachers. This work is varied and high volume. Working in a small team any of the following tasks may be required; diary management, arranging meetings, preparing timetables, processing assessment details, organising trips, events, meetings. It also includes producing spreadsheets, reports, typing minutes, photocopying, filing and producing printed materials such as labels, booklets and worksheets. Daily, process pupil absence information, check registers, record known absences, identify potentially missing children, report to Deputy Head and phone parents as required. Prepare reports. Sending emails on behalf of Deputy Heads and other staff, preparing letters for parents (for email distribution or publishing on the School's Weekly Parent Digest). Assist with preparation for school trips including, booking of venues/accommodation/transport, sending information to parents, collating permission slips and ensuring risk assessment forms are completed. Annually negotiate pricing with external platform providers and make recommendations to JS management for agreement. Place orders, e.g. teaching materials or stationery and check order against delivery. Assist with the preparation of school events, e.g. performances, by ensuring rooms and other resources are booked, timely notices to parents. Keep up-to-date with details of School events and information available on the School website, in order to provide parents and visitors with general information regarding school activities. Receive and deal with Lost Property items and liaise with Thrift Shop volunteers. Occasional handling of cash e.g. for school visits and charity collections. Provide cover to other administrators across the whole school, as required. Ensures compliance with General Data Protection Regulations when handling personal data and information relating to data subjects, whether that be on the management information system, paper records or when in discussions with others. Reception Responsibilities Provide a first class Reception service, by acting as the first point of contact for the school, welcoming visitors and responding to telephone and email enquiries in a helpful and constructive manner, and representing the School with a positive attitude and professional appearance at all times. Ensure the safety and security of the Junior School at all times, by making sure that entry to the premises is controlled. Ensure all visitors have signed-in appropriately and are provided with an identification badge, asked to read the visitor briefing notes, notifying the relevant employee/department of their arrival if necessary. Handle all telephone calls promptly and efficiently, directing and screening calls, as appropriate, and taking and forwarding messages in an accurate and timely manner. Handle all general enquiries, by phone, email and in person, ensuring that all enquiries are either dealt with successfully within the reception, or promptly and professionally forwarded on to the most appropriate colleague. Communicate with parents regarding all aspects of School life, receiving and passing on information, between parents and teachers, including phoning parents to ascertain reasons for pupils' absence. Ensure that the Reception area is kept smart and tidy and that displays of School publications are kept up-to-date. Database Administration Setting up all data structures which are needed for the school to operate effectively. Provides technical support and guidance on core data systems to Junior School colleagues and other Administration colleagues in the wider College. Examples of current tasks which the job holder is responsible for include: Creation of School Year, Timetables and Registers Before the start of the academic year, populate the Junior School system with the session dates and create the periods for the day which allows the creation of timetables and registers. Crucial this is accurate and timely as once committed it cannot be altered and the entire JS operation depends on this being correct. Curriculum Support confirms accuracy. Before the start of the academic year, transfer all the children from the closed year to the new year, changing class, removing leavers, adding new children, additional/new classes where relevant, in all external platforms (e.g. Mathletics, Accelerated Reader, Spellzone, Maths Investigations, Seesaw, Education City). Maintain this data across the year. Once the system is set up for the new academic year, and prior to session starting, receive information about timetables from Deputy Head(s) LP/UP, from PE, Drama, Art, Music and from this generate subject sets Create subject sets (c500) for each class, English, Numeracy, Literacy, Spanish, Art, Music, Drama etc attaching class, teacher, pupils, location, times and days which ultimately creates the timetable which teachers use. Ongoing maintenance of this data as required across the year. Data Maintenance Ensures the school management information systems are kept up to date with pupil information, e.g. change of circumstances, medical information, (Dashboards, Mathletics, SpellZone). Entries must be accurate and timely. Testing At key tracking points across the year (termly) work closely with Deputy Head (LP) to organise the testing programme. Agree dates of testing, share on central calendar with staff, decide whether enough test papers are in stock, maintain stock control, order papers where needed, consider supplier lead times, prepopulate external sites with data of children, dob, gender, names, class. Without this info the child cannot take an online test and for paper tests, the results could not be recorded by the testing company to the right child. Once results are available generate a csv file and import into a markbook. Create markbook tasks. Each test has a name, therefore getting the naming convention accurate is essential, as this is pulled off onto the dashboard. Allocate teacher, children being reported, additional markers. Assist teachers with entering scores/grades, as required and provide technical support/guidance. Report Production Ad hoc, creation of reports from the management information systems, e.g. running pre-designed ODBC reports, creating new (if basic) or seeking help from Senior School Deputy as required. Present data in various formats e.g. excel, graphs, pivot tables to Management/Staff/Annual Report. Typical reports include individual/ cohort performance, performance by subject. Interim and End of Session Reports for parents Twice a year, using Google sheets creates blank templates for teaching staff to complete with comments on the pupils and grades for attainment/approach etc. Create a reference page to accompany the template, which involves populating with data about the pupil. Once a teacher has completed the template, the job holder reformats through a merge process to create a pre-designed PDF document for sharing with parents by the Communications Team. Any changes that are requested by parents are made to the final report. Once finalised, individually assign a pupil record. Ideal Candidate Essential Criteria Demonstrable previous experience of working in a busy, customer-facing reception and administration focussed role within a team environment. Excellent and professional telephone manner, coupled with strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills; communicates in a confident, clear, and concise manner at all times. Experience of using iSAMS Excellent excel skills, including creating formulae, pivot tables, and able to analyse basic data and present well in report/graphic form Excellent Microsoft 365 skills (Word, Powerpoint . click apply for full job details

Deputy Manager LS2Y Nurseries Location: Chestnut Nursery, 2a Chestnut Centre, Deighton HD2 1HJ Hours: Full-time 40 hours a week, Permanent Salary: £29,640 (dependent on experience and qualifications) Benefits: Health cash plan, Company events, Company pension, Employee discount for childcare, On-site free parking Start Date: As soon as possible About Us LS2Y Nurseries are part of the wider LS2Y organisation, delivering high-quality childcare and education in the heart of our communities. We are nurturing, forward-thinking settings committed to the Curiosity Approach, encouraging children to explore, discover, and learn through purposeful play. We are seeking a motivated, organised, and experienced Deputy Manager to support the Nursery Manager and lead our team to deliver the very best standards of care and education. The Role As Deputy Manager, you will: Support the Nursery Manager with the day-to-day running of the nursery, taking charge in their absence. Act as a strong role model for staff, ensuring high standards of teaching, learning, and care. Work closely with room leaders to ensure quality routines, continuous provision, and environments reflect the Curiosity Approach ethos. Support with staff development coaching, mentoring, and ensuring consistency in practice. Contribute to administrative and office duties such as occupancy management, registers, staff rotas, observations, and parent communication. Maintain high standards of safeguarding, health and safety, and compliance across the nursery. Support with planning, SEND provision, and transitions, ensuring all childrens needs are met. Play an active role in developing ideas for seasonal planning, events, and nursery projects. Wider LS2Y Opportunities The role provides the opportunity to contribute to our wider work such as: Health Projects: supporting the wider health and wellbeing of our families and the community LS2Y. Families Together: working closely in partnership with other services to ensure families access the support they need Community Projects: LS2Y settings are embedded in their communities, with opportunities to contribute to events, employability support and nursery projects that connect families and local partners. Cross-site Working: As part of a wider organisation, there are opportunities to collaborate across different LS2Y nurseries, sharing best practice and supporting organisational initiatives. Staff Benefits LS2Y Nurseries offer a comprehensive package of staff benefits designed to support your professional growth and wellbeing: Funded Training and Qualifications: Ongoing training and development opportunities, with encouragement to progress to higher qualifications (Level 5 and above). Progression Opportunities: The chance to play a key role in shaping the nursery and to progress within the wider LS2Y organisation. Coaching and Mentoring: Support with staff development, including coaching, mentoring, and consistency in practice. Reflective Supervision: Regular opportunities for reflective supervision and feedback, supporting your professional journey. Staff Wellbeing Support: Health cash plan, employee discounts, on-site free parking, and a supportive, welcoming team environment. About You We are looking for someone who is: Qualified to Level 3 or above in Early Years (Level 5 desirable). Experienced in a senior or leadership role within an early years setting. Passionate about the Curiosity Approach and child-led learning. A confident leader and communicator, able to motivate staff and build strong relationships with parents. Organised, reliable, and able to manage both people and paperwork. Strong knowledge of safeguarding, EYFS, SEND, and Ofsted requirements. What LS2Y Nurseries Offer A supportive and welcoming team environment. Ongoing training and development opportunities. The chance to play a key role in shaping the nursery alongside the Manager. Competitive salary and staff benefits. In summary: The Deputy Manager role at LS2Y Nurseries is much more than a leadership positionits an opportunity to be part of a values-driven organisation that invests in its people, supports families, and makes a positive impact in the community. If youre passionate about early years, community engagement, and professional growth, LS2Y offers a rewarding and supportive environment. Please apply via Indeed with your CV and a short covering note explaining why you would be the perfect fit for this role. You may also have experience in the following: Deputy Nursery Manager, Early Years Deputy Manager, Assistant Nursery Manager, Nursery Team Leader, Nursery Supervisor, Early Years Lead, Early Years Senior Practitioner, Nursery Deputy Lead, Childcare Deputy Manager, Room Leader (with leadership experience), Deputy Head of Nursery, Senior Early Years Educator REF- JBRP1_UKTJ