Technical Support Officer - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Councils

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Description
Organisation

  • Dorset Council
  • Location
  • Dorchester
  • Reference
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  • Occupational group
  • Business, Policy & Administration
  • Salary details

- £22,777 - £25,40
  • Job term
  • Full Time
  • Appointment type
  • Permanent
  • Contact
  • Elizabeth Andrews
  • Contact
telephone


  • Closing Date
  • 03 February :00 PM

Technical Support Officer - Data and Performance

37 hours per week
  • Permanent


£22,777 - £25,409

County Hall, Dorchester


Are you looking for an interesting, varied, and challenging role in a busy environment? Do you enjoy learning to use new ICT tools and have the ability to help others learn? We are looking for someone to join our friendly team supporting our Planning and Building Control Services.

Our Data and Performance team are system administrators for the Mastergov Software now used in Planning and Building Control. We've invested in our service, restructured and recruited and converged onto one system.

So far we've transferred over 4.3 million documents, 47 years worth of data and moved 285 people onto our new system and now we are ready to transform how we work and use our software to help improve our in house processes and the service to our customers.


What you will be doing


On a daily basis you will be supporting the Planning and Building Control teams in their use of Mastergov and QGIS ( Mapping software) this could be problem solving, creating or amending templates or developing new functions.


You will also be required to help support members of the public and stakeholders in their use of the online services.


The Data and Performance Team also provide general administration support such as invoicing, producing stats, FOI requests and history searches.


About you


We are looking for a team player with good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and sustain good working relationships.


You will be responsible, organised and able to work on your own initiative, prioritising tasks accordingly and working to defined deadlines.

You will need to have an inquisitive nature and ability to problem solve.


Be confident in your use of a range of IT products, be able to pick thing up easily and have an interest on how to improve things.

Previous Planning / Building Control / Mastergov or QGIS experience would be advantageous but training will be provided.


Dorset Council:
A great place to work

We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.


At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success


You will:
- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.


Additional Information


This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

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