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Business Administration Apprentice – Curriculum Support ( Fixed Term until August 2026)
Job Reference: BAA/10.2024
Salary: This is a full time role with a full-time equivalent salary of up to £10,982.40 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Administration Apprentice to join our Heads of Curriculum.
The purpose of the role is to provide an effective administrative support service to the Heads of Curriculum and College Management Team.
The successful applicant must have:
- GCSE Mathematics and English at level C/ 4
- IT skills including Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/Teams)
- The ability to produce accurate work to tight deadlines under pressure and to work on own initiative and prioritise workload
- Methodical and organised approach to work with the ability to follow instructions and meet agreed timescales.
- Good communication skills both written and oral
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously with good organisational skills and able to work without supervision
- Willingness to learn
- The ability to maintain confidentiality
The roles main duties include:
- Providing a comprehensive administration support service for the Heads of Curriculum for them to effectively carry out their duties, meet deadlines and comply with college policy and procedures.
- Arranging and taking minutes during meetings as appropriate and ensure a consistent approach across college.
- Scheduling, organising and supporting with duties as directed by the Heads of Curriculum. This will include collating and/or gathering data.
- Supporting the wider College Management team with duties as and when required, for example general administration and college events.
- Participating in classes, apprenticeship reviews and any workshops to gain knowledge, skills and behaviours, as part of the apprenticeship.
- Completing assignments, assessments, Off the Job Training Log and End Point Assessment timely.
- Carrying out all duties professionally with the highest level of confidentiality.
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from a reduction in working hours with full pay. You will work core hours (based on a full-time equivalent contract) of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month.
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme :
- Teachers’ Pension: Employer Contribution 28.68%
- Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
- 7.4 Weeks for Academic employees,
- 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years’ service
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 17 November 2024.
Job Description and Person Specification.
Application Form.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Form.
Guidance Notes for the Application Form.
Policy Statement for Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.
Safeguarding Policy
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Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £44 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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