Administrative assistant – Widening Participation and Access

Closing date for application: Sunday 30 March 2025 9pm

Salary: £28,000 per annum

Interviews: Tuesday 8 April 2025

Step into the world of ballet – Central School of Ballet is looking for a dedicated administrator to support our outreach and access initiatives.

Central School of Ballet has an international reputation for delivering a ballet focused degree course - a BA (Hons) Degree in Professional Dance and Performance. Central’s Junior School for younger dancers continue to attract hundreds of children. For those aspiring to a career as a dancer, our Associate programme, Spring and Summer courses and Dance Days give 11 to 16 year olds a taste of life at a vocational dance school.

Central School of Ballet is committed to addressing issues of under representation in ballet and Higher Education. Central is looking to recruit an efficient, organised and friendly individual to provide administrative support on Widening Participation and Access projects, programmes and short courses, and administrative support on sessions for students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs) and Learning Resources.

For further information and an application form, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Genuine desire and interest to develop a career within education, training, and outreach
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills with a systematic approach and a keen eye for detail
• Previous administration experience
• High standard of written and spoken English
• Excellent time management skills with experience of working on own initiative and the ability to prioritise a varied workload and meet stringent deadlines
• Excellent communication and customer care skills, with the ability to engage with a wide range of people across diverse communities – children, young people, parents/guardians, internal and external artistic and academic staff
• Strong IT skills – MS Office 365 and other IT and digital platforms. An interest in learning new software.

Desirable

• Appreciation /understanding of the dance industry
• Arts administration experience
• Sound understanding of the needs and requirements of children and young people, including safeguarding.

Due to the high number of applications that we receive we are unfortunately unable to contact unsuccessful applicants. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Central School of Ballet is an equal opportunities employer In line with school policy, this post requires an enhanced disclosure DBS check.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.