- Pay Rate:
£10.90 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month
- MANCHESTER,
M60 2LA
Temporary Business Support Officer x6
Reference no: MCC 0007 53D1 / 1
Pay rate £10.90 per hour PAYE
This opening assignment is for 1 month
Enhanced DBS required for this role
The role holder will contribute to the goals of the team through the provision of high quality business support. The will provide high quality, customer focused, flexible and timely support thereby contributing to the achievement of objectives of a fast moving operational service. The role holder will contribute effectively to the development of business support initiatives and value-added activities to meet the needs of the service
Key responsibilities:
- Deal efficiently and courteously, with tact and diplomacy, to all queries and correspondence, both written and verbal from a wide range of internal and external customers.
- Use initiative and established procedures to resolve queries at the first point of contact or escalate when appropriate within agreed timescales and procedure.
- Update and extract information from management information systems accurately and competently as required including the retrieval and collation of reports to agreed procedure.
- Complete all documentation and correspondence accurately and to a high standard in line with procedures and within agreed timescales.
- Procure, monitor and maintain office stationery and equipment, ensuring changes are made in line with procedures, budgets and agreed timescales.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to enhance the role of business support throughout the Council.
- Personal commitment to continuous self development and service improvement
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Good literacy and numeracy skills to undertake calculations and produce letters and other documentation
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, accurately and in ways that promote understanding
- Ability to interpret rules and guidelines and know when something needs to be referred to supervisor
- Ability to use multiple applications, systems and associated software packages
- Ability to engage with stakeholders to identify information needs and to know how to go about obtaining the relevant information. Also able to gather and analyse information, opportunities and problems
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. SEE DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AD.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your 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.
- Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
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.
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