Administration Officer - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Maidstone Borough Council

Maidstone Borough Council

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Maidstone, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job reference

001924

Date posted

26/01/2024

Application closing date

11/02/2024

Location

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Salary

Grade 6 (£23,498 - £25,498)

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Job category/type

Clerical

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Job description

About the Role

Pride in our Borough:
A Borough that works for everyone.

We are looking to recruit a reliable, hardworking, and multi-skilled team-player to join our small but busy Building Control Team.

You should have demonstrable experience of working in an office environment dealing with customers.

You will be responsible for ensuring a professional customer service is given to the Public, Architects, Builders and Agents. You will have to ensure that the highest standards are always adhered to. You will need to demonstrate effective communication skills, deal with challenging and demanding situations and work well under pressure.

The post will involve a variety of technical administrative work, providing organisational, operational, and administrative support to the Building Control Surveyors.

You will input data into relevant spreadsheets and databases, monitor mail and inboxes and respond within set deadlines.

With the above duties in mind, we are looking for someone who has excellent organisational, IT, customer care and communication skills.

You will need to be highly motivated, work well within a team as well as on your own initiative, with the ability to prioritise and complete a variety of administrative tasks in a busy environment.

Multi-tasking where appropriate, you will need to bring your proven administrative knowledge and experience to the role.

This is a full-time position on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

About Maidstone Borough Council

Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses.

We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy.

We continue to build on our strengths - assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans.

We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people.

You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us.

We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well.

At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council.

We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return.

As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance.

Our Offer:

A range of benefits including:

Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities.
7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles.
Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
Free parking.
Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people's home/work life. balance including compressed hours, 9day fortnight, part time.
Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities.
Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors.
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
Life Assurance three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS).
Season Ticket Loan to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work.
Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brandnew car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
Annual flu vaccine.
Cycle to work scheme.
Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping.
Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals.
A professional fee payment, if required for the role.

About You:

You will have experience of working in an office environment.
Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills.

Selection Process:

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