Attendance and Admissions Officer

About The Role
Reporting to: Vice Principal
Location: Ark Pioneer Academy
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Term Time
Start date: January 2026
Salary: Band 7 of the Ark Support Scale: £32,659 to £37,902

The role

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly organised Attendance and Admissions Officer with excellent attention to detail and a commitment to delivering outstanding service for our school community. This is an exciting opportunity to join a truly exceptional team and take a lead role in ensuring that every child at Ark Pioneer attends regularly and punctually, while also overseeing a smooth, welcoming and efficient admissions process for prospective families.

This is a varied and impactful role where your work will directly support our students' success. You will monitor and analyse attendance data, manage day-to-day absence procedures, liaise with families, and work closely with pastoral staff to promote excellent attendance. You will also coordinate all aspects of school admissions-from first enquiries and school tours through to offers and student onboarding-ensuring every family has a positive, professional experience of Ark Pioneer.

What's special about this role?
This role sits at the heart of the school's pastoral and administrative systems, ensuring that every child is present, engaged and ready to learn, and that all transitions into the school are managed efficiently and warmly. Key aspects of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Daily monitoring, recording and follow-up of pupil attendance and punctuality
• Analysing attendance data and preparing regular reports for senior leaders
• Coordinating interventions with pastoral teams for students with persistent absence
• Being the first point of contact for attendance enquiries from staff, parents and external agencies
• Leading the admissions process from first contact to student start date
• Organising school tours, open events and admissions communication
• Ensuring compliance with all statutory attendance and admissions requirements
• Maintaining accurate records and high-quality administrative systems

Your work will play a crucial role in safeguarding pupils and ensuring equity of access to our school.

Who are we looking for?
At Ark Pioneer, we believe every child has the potential to be knowledgeable, articulate and successful-and attendance is key to unlocking that success. We are looking for someone who shares this belief and who brings:

• Strong administrative experience
• Excellent communication skills
• A high level of accuracy, organisation and reliability
• The ability to analyse data, spot patterns and act on them
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach
• The ability to build positive relationships while maintaining high expectations

Experience in a school environment is helpful but not essential if you bring transferable skills and a commitment to the role.

Benefits

Why will you love our school?

There are lots of reasons! We're lucky to be based in a brand-new building with top-class facilities and serve a wonderfully diverse community-non-denominational, mixed gender, with two-fifths of pupils receiving pupil premium funding. Our values Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination shape everything we do, and our team unites behind a shared vision of excellence for all pupils.

We prioritise staff development and wellbeing. You'll receive coaching and tailored professional development to help you grow in your role, and you'll join a warm, collaborative team who thrive on supporting each other. With our extended school day (4pm finish four days a week), we deliver a rich and broad curriculum for our pupils-yet we never hold meetings after school.

Our team says: "All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in."

• Read more about our school here
• Click here to see our school in action
• Click here to read our Ofsted report from September 2023

What are the benefits of working with Ark?

As part of the Ark network, you will have access to bespoke training and professional development, as well as opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across our North London region and beyond. Many Ark staff progress to leadership roles across the network.

Ark employees also benefit from a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, wellbeing support, and a range of discounts and perks. Simply put, you won't find a more supportive or ambitious network of schools. Read more about Ark here

About Us
We are non-denominational, mixed gender school based in a brand-new building with top class facilities. We serve a wonderfully diverse community and two fifths of our pupils receive pupil premium funding.

We're led by our values - Aim High, Have Integrity, Be Kind and Model Determination and our team truly unite behind our vision. Curriculum is incredibly important to us and we've planned backwards from university readiness to give our pupils the very best in every subject discipline.

We timetable collaborative planning and love to engage in 'productive struggle'. Every team member is supported with coaching and tailored professional development, whatever stage they are at in their career. Our extended school day (we finish at 4 four days a week and earlier on Wednesday) allows us to offer a broad, rich curriculum and timetabled enrichment for every child - but we never have meetings after school. Our team say : 'All staff are incredibly supportive and positive, and it is a great environment to work in'.

See our school in action here and hear what our staff have to say about why they love working at our school here.

Visit arkpioneer.org/jobs to learn more about us.

Diversity and inclusion:

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone - staff and students - can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark's diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement:

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark's safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.