Admin Assistant - UAE Nationals - Al Qurm Charter School ( AY26-27)

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

Responsibilities

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
  
  
  

Qualifications

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).