School Data Systems Operator

Salary: £30,000 – £31,200 per year

Position: School Data Systems Operator

Location: Surbiton, Surrey

Role: Permanent

Start: ASAP

Salary: £30,000 – £31,200per annum

Hours: 32hrs (52 weeks)

Qin Recruitment are working with a charitable Trust which operates three independent fee-paying day schools that seek to provide the best possible educational experiences for children. These are based in Surbiton and Wimbledon.

They are seeking to appoint a flexible and self-motivated individual to lead on the input, management and control of data related to the School’s MIS, future schools tracking and future school exams, assessments, testing and other systems that facilitate communication between staff and parents.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Managing the MIS (SchoolBase):

  Manage the database information for parents, staff, and pupils.

  Manage the database side of the report writing process, preparing the templates for

• reports and progress cards and then publishing them and responding to any subsequent
• queries from parents.

  Produce and distribute guidance notes to parents and staff to facilitate their use of the

• system.

  Upload data, including assessment data, to SchoolBase and produce reports as required for

• the SLT and HoDs, such as individual pupil data profiles, department specific exam results,
• Common Entrance and Scholarship results.

  Manage data relating to plus/ minus, effort and attainment grades, absences etc. in

• relation to SchoolBase and applying to school reports, and facilitating the use of absence
• reports by office staff.

Experience and Qualifications

· Formal IT qualifications are desirable.

· School based experience is desirable.

· Experience of managing a MIS database.

· Excellent administrative skills, with advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, Office 365 and Google platform skill level.

· Proven customer service experience.

· Excellent communication skills (in person, on the telephone and in writing).

· Friendly and positive demeanour.

· Experience of working in a busy environment with the ability to prioritise tasks.

· Self-motivated and enthusiastic with a proactive ‘can do’ attitude.

· Discretion and confidentiality.

· Ability to work in a team.

· Ability and willingness to learn new systems.

· A good listener, able to interpret the vision and align it with suitable technological solutions.

The successful candidate will have good IT and communication skills and be able to work independently.

This role is part-time (32 hours per week) and full year.