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Please note this vacancy is only available to Birmingham City Council employees.

Senior School Admissions Officer (BMA)

Permanent

Grade D - £45,091 – £53,460

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Birmingham City Council is seeking an experienced professional to lead the delivery of school admissions complaints, appeals and budget services within a complex statutory environment.

The role involves ensuring compliance with admissions legislation, managing appeals and complaints activity, challenging non‑compliance by schools, and representing the local authority at independent appeal hearings. You will also support the Head of Service with service planning, performance reporting and improvement activity affecting vulnerable children and young people.

This is a high‑responsibility role requiring resilience, credibility and the ability to operate confidently under pressure.

Key responsibilities including leading and managing the relevant school admissions' functions and related staff and service performance, ensuring statutory compliance, providing authoritative advice on complex admissions matters.

The successful candidate will have substantial experience in a statutory education environment, ideally within school admissions or a related service, and will demonstrate strong knowledge of the relevant legislation, experience in managing services, confidence dealing with complex, sensitive and contested cases, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and professional resilience and sound judgement

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Job Description and Person Specification

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy | Birmingham City Council here.

“Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.”