Office Manager

Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 34,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust is seeking an outstanding Office Manager for St Mary’s Catholic School. The role leads the school admin team, ensuring smooth main office operations and high-quality administrative support across the school.

The successful candidate will work with the senior leadership team, manage communications via Arbor, and coordinate events, recruitment, and user support while upholding the Catholic ethos of the school.

Qualifications

• Significant and current administrative experience is required.
• Experience leading a school admin team is advantageous.
• Familiarity with school administration processes and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the school admin team and ensure smooth office operations.
• Delegate work to admin staff and monitor quality of output.
• Ensure effective communication with parents via MIS Arbor, phone, email and in person.
• Lead staff reviews and annual admin performance discussions.
• Support production of school newsletters, prospectus and staff handbook.
• Coordinate key calendar priorities, e.g. Parents’ Evenings.
• Provide admin support for recruitment, trips, and events.
• Assist SLT with daily staff cover management.

Skills

Leadership

Staff management

Administrative experience

Communication

Education

Administrative qualification

Tools

Arbor MIS

Job description

**Office Manager****Full Time – Permanent- From October 2026****£33,673 - £36,581 per annum****37 hrs – 7.30am-4.00pm Monday-Thursday and****Friday 7.30am-3.30pm with one hour lunch**The Governors wish to an outstanding Office Manager to lead the school admin team and ensure the smooth running of the Main Office and other admin support in school. This is an excellent opportunity to gain an enhanced leadership post within the school’s support staff structure. The successful candidate will work closely with the senior leadership team to ensure that all aspects of administration at St Mary’s are outstanding. The successful candidate will lead a team of Senior Admin Assistants and Admin Assistants in school.**Specific areas of work will be agreed with the successful applicant following appointment but the duties and responsibilities of the Office Manager will include:**• Leading the school admin team and ensuring the smooth running of the office and effective administrative support across the school.• Delegating appropriate work to members of the administration team and ensuring that work is completed efficiently and to a high standard.• Leading the school admin team to ensure high quality communication with parents via our MIS system Arbor, telephone, email and in person.• Leading support staff review, including leading review meetings, with the administration team.• Ensuring that all school documentation is maintained and updated, including support in the production of the school newsletters, prospectus, staff handbook etc.• Leading the completion of whole school administrative priorities at key points in the school calendar. For example, Parents’ Evenings.• Leading admin support for school transition process and events.• Welcoming, looking after and providing hospitality for all school visitors throughout the year.• Organising the administration of examination results.• Organising the work time of administrative staff, including on-call days.• Providing administrative support for all school recruitment.• Providing administrative support and bookings for trips, visits and residential visits.• Provide support to the SLT in the management of daily staff cover for planned and unplanned absences.• Management of free school meals and organising alternative provision where required.• Ensuring excellent relationships with staff, parents, governors, contractors’ representatives and external agencies in order to promote the objectives of the school.• Leading and/or contributing to all of the regular duties of Senior Admin/Admin Assistant roles.• Fully supporting the school’s Catholic/Christian ethos.• Carrying out any other duties as directed by Senior Leaders commensurate with the general level of responsibility of the post.**Application process**Applicants must have significant and current administrative experience and expertise to apply for this role.**To apply, please complete the CES online application form via Eteach. Please complete the application in full including the ‘Supporting Statement’ section which should be around 1 side of A4 in length. Please address the supporting statement to me, outlining the qualifications, experience, skills and attributes, which you will bring to the post.****Could I ask all applicants to include in the qualifications section of the form, details of their degree class and division, as well as A Level grades.**Your completed application form, letter and reference consent form should be c**ompleted electronically via Eteach, by 9.00am on Tuesday 22nd September 2026. Interviews will be held shortly after the deadline. If you would like to discuss this post further, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Danielle Largue, Head of School.**### AttachmentsBBCET Notes to ApplicantsDiocesan Briefing Note on the Definition of Practising CatholicDiocesan Model Statement on Equal Opportunities in Catholic SchoolsPrivacy NoticeHeadteachers Letter Sept 2026Office Manager Job Description Sept 2026Person Specification - Office Manager### Safeguarding Statement:St Mary's Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.In accordance with the safeguarding vulnerable groups’ regime [2006] & the relevant Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) DfE guidance, **any offer of employment made will be conditional upon the results of checks from the Disclosure & Barring Service** (“the DBS”) and Teacher Services (regarding teacher prohibition/disqualification from working with children and young people).School roles give privileged access to vulnerable groups, therefore, **we require all applicants attending interview to disclose all spent convictions and cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions) Order 1975** unless it is a “protected” conviction/caution under the amendments made to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions) Order 1975 (in 2013) and, therefore, not subject to disclosure.