Senior Team Administrator - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The starting salary for this role is £26,080 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.

Do you have the right administrative skills to strategically support our Children's Resources Service leaders? If so, read on to see how you can help to improve the lives and outcomes of our children and young people in care.

An opportunity has arisen to join the Children's Business Support Service. This role will provide personal assistant style support to the Assistant Director of the Children's Resources Service.

This service consists of Fostering and Adoption, Children'sResidential Homes, Hope, No Wrong Door, Occupational Therapy, Contact Service and Short Breaks.

In this role you will be required to communicate in a clear and concise manner, as the role will include engaging with a range of stakeholders, both internally and externally, and other agencies and representative organisations on behalf of the AssistantDirector.

Given the sensitive nature of the work, you will need to uphold a strict level of confidentiality and discretion together with the ability to establish successful relationships.

Tact, initiative and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to performto the highest of professional standards will be critical to this role as you will need to deliver complex tasks through multiple workstreams.

Working as part of the Business Support Team, your day-to-day responsibilities will be to provide high level administrative support to the Assistant Director in relation to managing, organising, prioritising and co-ordinating the work

This will include:

Complex electronic diary management organising meetings/events
Coordinating complex report documents and presentations
Supporting the preparation for key meetings, including managing forward plans, producing agendas, and minute taking
Tracking and recording progress against actions
Previous experience working as a Personal or Executive Assistant
Experience working with senior stakeholders
A good track record in building strong and trusted relationships
Impeccable professional standards, working proactively and autonomously with excellent attention to detail
High organisation skills with the ability to effectively prioritise multiple/conflicting demands.

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values we follow.

Additional Information
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 06/01/2023.

Interviews will be held in the week commencing the 9th January 2023.

A Basic DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity will be required for this role.

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Benefits
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role.

You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years'service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme.

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

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