Local Authority Officer

I love my role as Principal Manager Schools Organisation.

My role involves:

• Providing strategic leadership and management of the admissions services and team
• Ensuring compliance with legislation
• Managing school place planning processes
• Managing compliance with Section 106 requirements
• Supporting decision making on school place offers and free school meal eligibility
• Day-to-day management, supervision and development of staff
• Working with school leaders to develop school place sufficiency across the local authority
• Improving school leaders’ understanding of school place sufficiency issues, admissions processes through the production of appropriate communication
• Liaising and relationship building with school and trust leaders
• Contributing to the identification of school-related concerns
• Providing timely and acurate statutory provision of information, guidance and support to schools, staff and parents
• Analysing data and making recommendations on future school provision