Fettes Preparatory School are seeking to hire a customer-focused School Secretary (maternity cover) to be the face of the Prep School, providing a warm welcome for pupils, parents and visitors.
This is a maternity cover position from January 2025 to 16th December 2025 working during term time 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday (8 am to 4 pm, with a one-hour unpaid lunch break).
Salary: around £21,000 per annum
Benefits include:
1. Parking within the campus grounds. The campus is easily accessed by car and bus.
2. Membership of Westwoods gym and health club which offers a range of excellent fitness and leisure facilities including a 25m swimming pool.
3. Free lunchtime meals during term time, and at other times when catering is provided, and you are on duty.
4. Life insurance scheme (3x salary).
5. Excellent Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
6. Benefits portal with extensive discounts section, as well as healthcare, dental plan cover, etc.
7. You will be opted into the Fettes College Pension Plan after 3 months service.
Main Responsibilities: Please see the full Job Description for duties and responsibilities for this role.
The Ideal Candidate:
Experience:
1. Excellent organisational and planning skills with strong attention to detail;
2. Ability to work independently but also to work well with colleagues;
3. Motivated and can take the initiative to manage tasks;
4. First rate business writing skills and good inter-personal skills;
5. IT literate across a broad range of common Microsoft applications specifically Outlook, Word and Excel and, ideally, experience and confidence in the use of databases.
Personal Qualities:
1. Approachable and open manner for daily interaction with Pupils, Parents and Staff;
2. Enthusiastic and willing to involve oneself in the life of the school;
3. Confidentiality, discretion, diplomacy and integrity;
4. Smart and professional in presentation.
About the school/organisation:
Fettes College is a leading HMC co-educational boarding and day school close to the heart of Edinburgh. It has a strong tradition of academic, sporting and cultural excellence underpinned by outstanding pastoral care. Fettes opened its doors in 1870 and became fully co-educational in 1980: it is now an independent school of some 785 students. There are 594 students in the Senior School (13-18 years) and 191 students in the Preparatory School (7-13 years).
The school stands on a stunning and secure 100-acre site, but still within walking distance of Edinburgh’s city centre. The historic main building holds the Chapel, Library, the English, Classics and History Departments as well as the Medical Centre and two boarding houses. A large purpose-built teaching block (the Spens Building) houses Art, Modern Languages, Mathematics, Economics, Geography and Music. The Theatre, Science Laboratories and Dining Hall are adjacent. The Preparatory School and seven further boarding houses (including a purpose-built co-educational U6th House) are also on the campus. Our sports facilities (including extensive playing fields, two all-weather pitches and a private Health Club) are excellent.
We have a commitment to build even more ground-breaking facilities, including a Wellbeing Centre and construction of new Science and Innovation buildings.
As well as our teaching staff we employ over 220 Operational Staff across the many departments, including Estates, Security, Housekeeping, Finance, Admissions and Marketing with a pervading sense of community amongst staff, students and parents alike.
OUR VISION: We have created and developed a bold new vision for Fettes, one which focuses on what we believe Fettesians should aspire to be, the skills they will need in life and the impact we want them to make in the world.
Please also watch (with sound on) our film below - Ode to Place - which complements the vision and captures the ethos of Fettes College and what a Fettes education means.
#J-18808-Ljbffr