Administrator - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
Description
Directorate
- Communications
Business Area
- Marketing
Location
- Glasgow
Salary range
- £23,698 - £25,836
Type of Contract
- Fixed Term Contract
End Date of Fixed Term Contract
- 30/06/2024
Part Time/Full Time
- Full Time/'Happy to talk flexible working'
Workstyle
- Varied place & hours
Actual Hours
- 35
Closing Date
- 13/08/2023
Ref No
- 5592
We are trusted to oversee thousands of qualifications that are available in schools, colleges, and workplaces, not just in this country, but around the world.
We are looking for an Administrator to work within the Communications Directorate in our Strategy team.The strategy team provides strategic guidance and support for Directorate planning, prioritisation, resourcing, and measurement.
We coordinate delivery and measurement of the Directorate strategy through a suite of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) showing the main deliverables and measures across teams.
- Act as point of contact for the team leading these areas of work, organise group meetings, prepare agendas and minutes and ensure action points are implemented in a timely manner.
- Deal with team correspondence, collate information and compile reports, ensuring decisions made are communicated to the relevant stakeholders.
- Generating and maintaining accurate records in various formats, ensuring information is up to date, stored securely, is readily retrievable and complies with data protection legislation.
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with peers and colleagues, be able to analyse information collated from meetings.
- Collaborating with senior leadership team to coordinate and report on Directorate activities.
- Working with communications directorate teams to develop and implement their objectives and then, collaborate with senior team leads to help them implement, manage, and assess the success of the objectives.
Essential
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, in particular diary management and the ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
- Previous experience in an administration role.
- Ability to write concise and accurate minutes of meetings.
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office, excel and outlook.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and use own initiative.
- Ability to develop good working relationships.
Desirable
- Experience of administration in a diverse and fastmoving environment.
- Experience of working with different databases. E.g., SharePoint, Teams
Applicants, as a minimum, should be educated to SCQF Level 6 (SVQ3/Higher) and/or be able to demonstrate direct relevant experience for this role.
Also role model the behaviours associated with SQA's values (Trusted, Progressive and Enabling) in order to develop and sustain a productive and positive culture.
These include but are not limited to a career average pension scheme; staff well-being and health assistance programmes; development opportunities and 27 days annual leave in addition to 14 days public holiday.
Find out more here:
SQA Benefits
- Tha Plana Gàidhlig aig SQA agus tha sinn _dealasach le na hamasan sa Phlana Cànain Nàiseanta Ghàidhlig_ ( SQA has a Gaelic Language Plan, and we are committed to the aims of the National Gaelic Language Plan_
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