School Office & MIS Administrator — Term-Time Only

Tradewind Recruitment; Preston; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Tradewind Recruitment is seeking an organised School Office & SIMS/Arbor Administrator in Preston. You will manage pupil data, admissions, attendance and school communications in a busy front-of-house role within local primary and secondary schools.

The position offers term-time hours, a stable schedule, and a welcome to the school community, with support for GDPR/data-protection compliance and DBS processing where required.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of school MIS systems (SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom, or ScholarPack).
• Professional, polite telephone manner with strong customer service skills.
• High literacy, numeracy and IT proficiency (MS Office / Google Workspace).
• Understanding of safeguarding regulations (GDPR) and school visitor protocols.
• Enhanced DBS registered on Update Service (or willingness to obtain before September).

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update student records, admissions, attendance marks, and census data in MIS systems.
• Front-of-House reception duties for parents, visitors, contractors and local authority representatives.
• Log daily attendance, manage first-day contacts and weekly persistent absence reports.
• Draft/distribute parent communications via ParentPay, Schoolcomms, or Arbor.
• Handle calls, post, filing, reprographics, and trips/lunch money administration.

Skills

Telephone manner

Literacy

Numeracy

IT proficiency

Data protection (GDPR)

Enhanced DBS (Update Service)

Education

Enhanced DBS (Update Service)

Tools

SIMS

Arbor

Bromcom

ScholarPack

MS Office

Google Workspace

Job description

Tradewind Recruitment is seeking an organised School Office & SIMS/Arbor Administrator in Preston. You will manage pupil data, admissions, attendance and school communications in a busy front-of-house role within local primary and secondary schools.

The position offers term-time hours, a stable schedule, and a welcome to the school community, with support for GDPR/data-protection compliance and DBS processing where required.