The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
Southwark has a varied mix of cultural communities, where over 120 languages are spoken in Southwark. We have all the challenges you would find in any inner city area.
Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Role:
The Administrative Support Officer is the first point of contact for all enquiries, both on the telephone and face to face, providing a professional and responsive customer service to early years and childcare providers, parents and our partners in health, education and social care. The role primarily supports Southwark’s Early Years and Childcare Quality Improvement Team, specifically in relation to maintaining quality information on the councils early years and childcare web page and by facilitating the online early years training, booking and payment procedures and to provide high quality customer focussed administrative support.
About You:
We are looking to appoint an experienced administrative support officer who is able to deliver administrative, customer focussed and financial support services within Southwark’s Education Access and Statutory Service. You are the first point of contact for the team dealing with all queries swiftly and concisely.
You will have an excellent standard of literacy and numeracy as well as experience dealing with finance management and using finance systems such as SAP or similar.
You may have knowledge of project management skills or can demonstrate that you are exceptionally organised and able to produce a variety of reports to a high standard. You will have experience in using IT software including Microsoft word, Excel and Power point and web based applications, including the cloud. You will be able to communicate to a varying audience both verbally and in writing.
Additional Information:
- Office based although there is some flexibility for home working
- DBS required
Additional salary details
Benefits:
https://www.jobsatsouthwark.co.uk/why-us/
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 26th August 2022
Interview date: W/C 5th September 2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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