School Secretaries

School secretaries provide administrative support in schools by keeping and maintaining school records and performing a range of routine clerical tasks within the school.

Tasks

• Sorts, files and otherwise deals with incoming and outgoing correspondence types directly or transcribes letters, reports and other documents, and prints or photocopies documents as required maintains administrative records relating to pupils and staff, and generates statistical and other reports handles enquiries from parents and arranges meetings with members of staff undertakes reception duties for visitors, handles face-to-face and telephone enquiries and passes on messages orders equipment and stationery arranges payment of invoices, handles cash

Entry Requirements

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although many employers expect entrants to possess GCSEs/S grades, and professional secretarial courses typically require GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs in Administration are available at Levels 2, 3 and 4.