Admin Needed in Ashington

Recruiter
AndersElite
Location
Ashington
Salary
7.43 GBP Hourly + + holiday pay
Posted
17 Jan 2017
Closes
25 Jan 2017
Contract Type
Contract
Hours
Full Time
The Company

We are currently recruiting for a specialised local authority organisation who are based in in Ashington, Northumberland.

We are looking to recruit an experienced Admin Assistant to join their busy team with an immediate start.

The Role

This position has the attractive working hours of Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm and is a temporary contract whilst they recruit for the permanent post. Temporary workers are welcome to apply for the permanent post also.

We are looking for applicants who are immediately available for this vacancy.

Please note that due to the nature of the role, we require references covering a minimum of 2 years on file prior to submitting your CV to the vacancy.

Job Duties

As Admin Assistant, you will be covering the following job duties:

- Providing general administrative support to ensure smooth running of the service on a day to day basis.
- Inputting information onto the central database and liaise with the admin coordinator to produce statistics for reports and information when required to do so
- Taking incoming calls
- Assisting with diary management, faxing and photocopying
- Producing and responding to complex and/or confidential correspondence
- Providing administrative and organisational advice to other staff
- Minuting meetings, preparing and circulating agendas, minutes and correspondence as necessary.
- Arranging venues for meetings and training as required
- Taking responsibility for timely procurement of office supplies and equipment following procurement protocols
- Undertaking word processing and more complex IT tasks e.g. designing certificates, posters, display materials
- Preparing handouts for training courses and presentations.
- Assisting in the monitoring and managing of budgets for locality based team and providing statistical data and reports
- Comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, confidentiality and data protection
- Contribute to the overall ethos, aims and work of the service
- Communicate effectively and constructively with all team members to ensure a smooth transition during the ongoing period of change
- Recognise and use own initiative, strengths and areas of expertise to advise and support others
- Participate in training, performance development and other learning activities as required
- Oversight of work of scale1/2 admin within the locality team

The Person

- Superb communication skills - both written and verbal
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Proven, recent office-support experience
- Ability to on own initiative and as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Prioritising workloads
- IT literate including fully competent using Microsoft packages
- Developed interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise at all levels

If the above role is of interest to you, please do not hesitate to apply to this advert attaching your CV. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

Sarah Jones.

Anderselite.