📍 Location: Featherstone, Wolverhampton
🕒 Full-Time | Temporary Contract (9 months)
💰 £25,000 – £26,000 (depending on experience)
🔐 Basic DBS required
Start date: September 2026
Must have administration experience.
At Juniper, we’re on a mission to make a difference in education, and we’re looking for an organised, proactive, and enthusiastic CSS Administrator to help us do just that.
In this vital role, you'll be the backbone of our central admin team—supporting a network of centres, tutors, and apprenticeships to ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. If you love systems, accuracy, and making life easier for others, we want to hear from you.
Supporting the CSS Admin Manager with day-to-day operations
Maintaining accurate learner records, achievements, and destinations
Ensuring compliance with funding requirements
Managing student payments, bursaries, and free meal reconciliations
Registering learners for qualifications (including GCSEs) and processing certification via Walled Garden
Communicating with and supporting Centre Administrators across the organisation
Conducting compliance checks and feeding back to improve quality
Assisting the Apprenticeship Team with administration, invoicing and employer contributions, DAS actions.
Visiting centres to help enhance administrative standards
Attend company training days at other centres.
Essential:
GCSEs in Maths and English (A-C) or equivalent experience
Strong IT skills and knowledge of data systems
A can-do attitude and strong communication skills
The ability to stay calm under pressure and juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.
At least 12 months experience in administration
Desirable:
Business Admin Level 2 or ECDL qualification
Experience working in education, training, or with EFA paperwork
Previous involvement with apprenticeships or funding compliance
We’re a people-first organisation that values professionalism, integrity, and a positive, inclusive working environment. You’ll be fully supported with training—including safeguarding—and work in a team that values your input and growth.
🎉 25 days holiday, increasing to 30 with service
💰 Buy & sell annual leave
🏋️ Earn an extra week of leave just by exercising!
🚗 Paid mileage (35p per mile, above normal work mileage)
📞 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
🏆 Long service & special recognition awards
🎟️ Juniper Lottery & Dragons’ Den competitions
⭐ PRIDE monthly celebrations
🕑 Early Finish Fridays (2:30pm!)
🎄 Christmas Savings Club
👀 Eyecare reimbursement
🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme
⚡ Electric Car Scheme (after 5 years’ service)
🛡️ Critical Illness Cover (after 5 years’ service)
🎉 Corporate events throughout the year!
At Juniper, we believe that language should never be a barrier to opportunity We are committed to creating an inclusive learning environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide a work environment free from discrimination. We actively encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
At Juniper, we are committed to safer recruitment practices to ensure the safety and well-being of our students and staff. We carefully scrutinize all applications, thoroughly checking employment history and references to identify any gaps or inconsistencies. Where appropriate, we conduct enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks to ensure candidates meet our high standards of integrity and suitability for the role. Our approach reflects our dedication to creating a safe, supportive, and secure environment for everyone within our organisation.
If you require any accommodations during the application process, please let us know, and we will do our best to provide assistance. Join us in building a workplace that champions diversity, equity, and inclusion for all.
Operating for over 40 years, Juniper Training is one of the UK’s most experienced providers of training and Apprenticeships.
We have 25 delivery sites located within the West Midlands, Staffordshire, East Midlands, North West, South of England and East of England. We support in excess of 2000 students per year and work with over 800 employers. Rated as GOOD by Ofsted in all areas of provision, we are ideally placed to support students, adults and employers in bridging the skills gaps between education and employment.
We have achieved matrix accreditation and offer a 100% progression promise to our students to progress them into either Apprenticeships, Employment or Further Education.
