Windsor and Maidenhead 8262810621804 Temporary Business Support (Admin) Officer - Business Support - EBS1 [DBS required]
A Business Support (Admin) Officer with minute-taking skills is required to join the team supporting “Achieving for Children” - a social enterprise that champions children and families and puts the wellbeing and education of children first. You will be responsible for undertaking business support, under the supervision of the Business Support Team Leader, and liaising with service areas within the directorate to ensure that work is completed on time and to the standards stated by the SLA.
A high level of knowledge and previous experience of working in Children’s Service environment is desirable for this role as well as an enthusiasm to work smarter and efficiently. You will be required to carry out a range of administrative duties for the Team with limited supervision, which may involve written, telephone or face to face contact with the public or internal colleagues and the application of organisational procedures and systems. You will be expected to have good organisational skills and be able to use IT effectively in implementing tasks.
NB: A DBS check MUST be in place upon application.
Pay Rate: £12.00 per hour PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
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“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Minimum of 12 months recent office administration experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Knowledge & Experience:
- Experience of working in a business support capacity providing administrative support.
- Experience of forming good working relationships with colleagues and customers.
- Experience of accurately recording and inputting information within agreed timescales.
- Experience of providing meeting support including taking minutes.
- Experience of using a wide range of MS Office packages, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience of updating and maintaining databases.
- Experience of collating statistical information.
- Skills:
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, with a wide range of individuals.
- Minute-taking skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to handle confidential information.
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable to changing goals, priorities and circumstances.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages.
- ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
- Your DBS check number and date of issue, please. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Giving us your disclosure number and issue date with, or better still, on your CV really will help speed things along for you.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience.
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
- Educated to GCSE level C or above (or equivalent) in Mathematics and English.
- Experience of working in Children’s Service environment.
- Experience of organising and managing own workload with some supervision.
- Experience of supporting and providing mentoring to others.
- Experience of using a wide range of Google packages, including Google Mail, Google Docs and Google Sheets.
- Experience of providing support to projects.
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Resources/Admin & Clerical/Children’s Services
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 1 month.
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
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Job Ref: Windsor and Maidenhead 8262810621804
Temporary Business Support (Admin) Officer - Business Support - EBS1 [DBS required]
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