Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Spring Term 2025
Apply by:
20 February 2025
Job overview
Admissions Coordinator
The Queen's School is looking for an outstanding Admissions Coordinator to help manage and grow this key function.
Reporting to, and working closely with the Director of External Relations, this is an exciting opportunity to help deliver a first-class parent experience and ensure prospective pupils and parents are engaged by the school. The ideal candidate will be passionate about customer service and education and committed to delivering an excellent experience to our families throughout their journey with the school, including getting to know each family’s unique needs and situation. In addition to possessing excellent attention to detail and superb communication skills, you will be goal and results-oriented, and you will also bring a deep understanding and passion to deliver best-in-class customer service.
The Admissions Coordinator will help deliver the strategic direction, management, and growth of student recruitment and admissions activities. This includes the development of business relationships and opportunities domestically and internationally and implementing admission and recruitment strategies to achieve agreed targets.
The successful candidate will ideally have a thorough knowledge of the admissions process in an independent school or experience in a customer relationship management role for a quality, high-value brand. They must be an experienced and confident administrator with excellent data management, data analysis, and IT skills.
Moreover, the successful candidate must be flexible in their approach to the work and hours required in order to meet the needs of the School.
The role is ideally offered on a full-time basis working 37.5 hours per week between 8.30am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday. However, the school will also consider applications from candidates who may wish to work on a part-time basis of a minimum 30 hours per week. The role could potentially also be performed during term time only if preferred. Therefore, candidates are invited to specify their preferred working pattern on their applications forms.
Benefits of working at The Queen’s School
* Guaranteed contracted hours
* Pro-rata annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year, in addition to Bank Holidays. Entitlement increases to 30 days per year following 5 years’ service.
* On-site parking
* Pension Scheme
* Subsidised meals
* School fees discount
Application
Apply by completing the application form which can be found on the School website here and submitting the completed application form to recruitment@thequeensschool.co.uk specifying preferred working hours by 9.00am on Thursday 20 February 2025.
Interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 24 February 2025. For further information, you may wish to visit our website here.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
About The Queen's School
* The Queen's School
* City Walls Road, Chester
* Cheshire
* CH1 2NN
* United Kingdom
+44 1244 312078
Welcome to Queen’s
The Queen’s School is a leading selective GSA Independent day school providing education for around 450 girls between the ages of 4 and 18 years.
The school is highly successful, with a strong and consistent emphasis on the needs of individual pupils that focuses on enabling pupils to challenge, question, and develop. The Queen’s school is well known for its excellent pastoral care, which is a hallmark of its community and underpins the academic focus that characterises the school. The vast majority of our pupils go on to attend their first choice university, including medical and Oxbridge places, and leave the school as confident, articulate, and well-balanced young women.
The school is situated close to the centre of the thriving, historic city of Chester and a few minutes cycle ride or drive from the unspoiled countryside of Cheshire, Wirral, and North Wales. Manchester and Liverpool are within easy reach, and London is 2.5 hours away via train.
The ISI awarded the school the highest standard of “excellent” in all categories in its most recent inspection.
The History of the School
The Queen’s School was founded in 1878. The school's pupils achieved considerable distinction from the outset. Of the sixteen girls who joined The Queen's School on its opening day in 1878, two would go on to win places at Cambridge - the first of many in a long and honourable tradition.
The school would subsequently provide Chester with its first female solicitor, its first lady mayor, the first woman to receive the Freedom of the City, the first woman president of the Freemen and Guilds in over 800 years, and the first female cathedral provost in Church of England history.
The School buildings were erected with the financial assistance of several leading Chester families, on land on the Chester City Walls provided by the Duke of Westminster. This site still exists today as the main part of the Senior School. Further buildings have been constructed or acquired so that the school now inhabits a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as more modern ones. The Queen’s Lower School was originally based in two large Victorian houses on Liverpool Road, Chester. It still occupies this site but has expanded in recent years.
Although much has changed since The Queen’s School was founded, our values-driven approach to education has remained the same and the school’s motto of “Honour Wisdom” still rings true and resonantly today.
Working at Queen’s
The Queen’s School has an outstanding reputation for staff and pupil welfare and staff career progression is important. Continuous professional development opportunities are offered, as is specific support for Early Career Teachers as part of the ECF. The school is a member of the Girls’ Schools Association network of schools, enabling access to a wealth of support, information, and training.
Teachers at The Queen’s School are ambitious for themselves and for the school, but mainly for their pupils, getting to know them as individuals to set challenging but achievable targets. Across all year groups, there is an expectation of excellent results. At the Senior School, this includes the preparation of students for entry to highly competitive courses, including Oxbridge.
The Queen’s School invests proactively in technology to support teaching and learning, and an extensive and well-populated Virtual Learning Environment is well used by all pupils and staff at both the Lower and Senior Schools. All pupils in the Senior School have individual iPads and all teachers (Lower and Senior Schools) are provided with individual iPads to enhance their practice.
All members of staff are expected to contribute to the school's extracurricular programme, which mainly operates at lunchtimes and after school, and to support the marketing and admissions departments when necessary.
The Queen's School participates in a pension scheme with Legal and General and the Government Childcare Voucher scheme, offers discounted school lunches, reimburses parking costs for staff, and offers a pro rata 50% fee reduction for staff members who would like their daughter/s to attend the school.
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