- Pay Rate:
£9.99 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month
- PRESTON,
PR1 8XJ
Full Job Title: Temporary Admin Business Support Officer – Education
Reference no: Lancashire RQ611621
Hybrid Role; the candidate will need broadband and WIFI access at home but they will be provided with ICT equipment to be able to work from home.
To provide direct business support for Education and Children's Services working closely with operational staff, managers and customers in a highly sensitive environment.
Under supervision maintain, update and extract information from systems.
Assist with the collection and collation of information relevant to the Service.
Respond to, and resolve where appropriate, telephone, face to face, e-mail and other enquiries.
The post-holder will undertake a range of functions that could include the following:
- Providing business support for meetings, which could include arranging dates, room bookings and preparing agendas, or note taking
- Assisting with duties in relation to ordering goods, invoices and payments as appropriate
- Assisting with the collection and collation of statistics, data or other Management Information
- Responding to enquiries and resolve where appropriate which could be received via telephone, face-to-face, email and other
- Managing your own workload in order to meet required deadlines with supervision as required
- Maintaining electronic records and filing systems
- Liaising with external and internal customers
- Printing and scanning documents
- Handling incoming and outgoing communication
“Specific Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Minimum of 12 months recent office administration experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation
- ICT Skills: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite)
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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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.
- *** 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.
- 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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