Job Description

AQS follows the US Curriculum and is a large and thriving Charter School, with over 600 students from KG1 to Grade 5. The AQS aim is to be a collaborative, student centred school, to constantly develop staff, to develop stakeholder voice and to keep evolving in our practice, so demonstrating a change agent attitude

The successful candidate will be closely aligned with our core values: Respect, Collaboration, Passion, Integrity and Excellence and our ethos, ‘ Aspire, Believe, Achieve’

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group

Main Duties

• Attend all administration team meetings
• Typing and branding of official documents and letters to Secondary parents
• Receiving, directing and responding to emails of behalf of the Secondary Leadership Team as appropriate
• Liaise with teaching and non-teaching staff and respond to enquiries on matters within the postholder’s responsibility
• Link to Aldar HQ for all Secondary related issues/tasks
• Design new documents, where necessary, to improve Secondary Academy’s effectiveness
• Attend any training deemed necessary in relation to the role of Admin Support – Secondary
• Support new staff – arrival, induction, accommodation and any other requirements
• Maintaining up to date records for all Secondary pupils on engage
• Assist with the preparation of Secondary PTCs
• Mail merge letters to provide a more personalised service for parents and attached to DMS system
• Responsible for all communications to Secondary parents including Homework, Educational visits and invitations to events
• Ensure all fire registers are up to date and accurate for the Secondary School
• Process any student leavers forms for whole school, update Engage and forward to Admissions
• Responsible for arranging the cover of secondary teachers in times of absence

Minimum Qualifications

• “O” Levels/NVQ/High School Diploma or equivalent (certificate will need to be attested)

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar industry

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

• The successful candidate will require use of Microsoft Office, enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility, good interpersonal skills, motivation, resilience, patience, ability to work flexibly as a member of a team and ability to hit the ground running!
• Applicants must be confident Good literacy skills and an excellent command of English (An ability to speak Arabic would be an advantage).