Business Support Officer

• Address: Stowmarket High School Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1QR
• Salary: 12648 per annum (24404 - 25183 pro rata)
• Hours: Part Time. 22.5 hours per week 39 weeks per year
• Contract: Permanent. Required from October 2025
• Reference: 7777

At Stowmarket High School we strive to provide the best all-round education for our young people. Our enriching curriculum seeks to give our students every access to knowledge skills and experiences to help them prepare for the future and encourage them to be independent creative confident and socially responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society. We are proud to be the town school and work to improve the life chances and opportunities for all our students.

We are looking for a Business Support Officer to join our busy school role requires a calm highly organised individual who is confident to interact with others and can work under pressure. Experience of working in an administrative or business support capacity within an educational setting would be advantageous. The hours of work in this post are 22.5 hours per week 39 weeks per year (term-time one week).

You will:

• be consistently positive polite and professional
• be confident to interact professionally and form effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders including parents pupils staff outside agencies and members of the public
• have embedded strategies to manage an intensive and varied workload
• possess or be willing to train to acquire strong ICT skills including Office 365 and IT systems such as Lunch Hound ParentMail and BromCom
• demonstrate high levels of organisation and attention to detail
• be able to adhere rigorously to confidentiality and GDPR regulations.

We can offer:

• a welcoming and caring staff team
• a supportive team of professionals within the school and as part of Kingfisher Schools Trust
• a range of dedicated staff wellbeing support.

Kingfisher Schools Trust offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
• Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College
• Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice
• Shopping and leisure discounts
• Cycle2 work salary sacrifice scheme
• Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme

How to apply

Please feel free to contact the HR team by emailing:

To find out more please visit our website (My New Term)

Closing date: 12pm 12 September 2025.

Interview date: 19 September 2025.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.