School Office Manager

School Office Manager
Location: Finchley
Salary: £35,000 – £40,000
Contract: Full-time, all year round
Annual Leave: 30 days per year plus bank holidays (to be taken outside of term time)
Start Date: ASAP

Our client is seeking an experienced, organised and proactive School Office Manager to lead the administration and operational functions across their school. This is a pivotal role, providing strategic and hands-on management of the school office team while ensuring efficient day-to-day operations. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the school’s inclusive, neurodiversity-affirming environment.

About the Role The School Office Manager is responsible for overseeing the smooth running of the school office across all campuses. This role involves line-managing administrative staff, coordinating processes across multiple systems, and ensuring compliance with school policies and statutory requirements.
The postholder will act as the first point of contact for parents, staff, and external partners, ensuring that communications and administration are handled professionally, efficiently, and in line with the school’s ethos.
This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, adaptable leader to make a real impact in a dynamic and inclusive school environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the school office team, providing direction, support, and performance management
• Oversee day-to-day administrative operations across all school sites
• Ensure accurate and timely use of school management information systems (MIS) and other administrative platforms
• Maintain compliance with statutory and internal policies, including HR, safeguarding, and health and safety procedures
• Act as a point of contact for parents, carers, staff, and external stakeholders
• Support senior leadership in coordinating school-wide administrative projects and initiatives
• Develop and implement office procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage and prioritise competing workloads, ensuring deadlines and standards are consistently met
• Support a positive, flexible, and inclusive working environment aligned with neurodiversity-affirming values

Person Specification Essential:

• Proven experience in office management or senior administrative leadership, ideally in an educational or multi-site setting
• Excellent organisational and people management skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities
• Confidence using MIS and administrative systems
• Positive, flexible approach with a commitment to supporting a neurodiversity-affirming environment

Desirable:

• Experience within an independent or specialist school setting
• Knowledge of compliance processes including HR, safeguarding, and health and safety
• Familiarity with systems such as SchoolPod, Arbor, TimeMoto, ParentMail, or similar

About you:

• Experience working within a school environment
• Must have experience using SIMS, Arbor, BROMCOM or similar
• A valid DBS on the DBS update service
• Experience of monitoring and logging attendance

About us:
We are Pertemps and we pride ourselves on being the best Education and Support staff based recruiter on the UK Market. With partnerships with some of the biggest trusts of schools, we have received glowing feedback over years of recruiting and provide a service that really makes us stand out from the rest.

• Get paid in line with AWR
• Your own dedicated consultant
• Wellbeing support, travel discounts, and retail offers from our partners

How to apply:
You can apply for this role below or get in touch with us directly. All applicants require the appropriate qualifications, and all teachers require a formally-recognised teaching qualification.

If you are not contacted within 2 working days, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful for this role.

All candidates must have a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting work. Full assistance provided.