Admin Officer
Posted 10/04/2024 by Adecco
JOB TITLE: Admin Officer
LOCATION: Hybrid working (Teddington)
PAY RATE: £15.04 paye/ £19.18 per hour
START DATE: ASAP
DURATION/Hours: 3-month initial contract/ 36 hours a week
Job purpose:
To provide comprehensive administrative support to operational teams/training and development team within the Adults Social Services Directorate, helping to ensure efficient and effective admin support systems and processes operate consistently across the Directorate.
Duties & responsibilities:
- To advise and support managers on relevant matters affecting the service.
- To work as required in ways that develop good working relations and collaborative arrangements with partner and other external organisations.
- To support the Senior Admin Officer and work with colleagues in the development and maintenance of administrative processes, procedures, and systems.
- To provide effective and efficient office administration support to managers, team leaders and staff as required and using own initiative, including, but not limited to:
- Dealing with internal and external customers, by phone, email and face-to-face, resolving queries at first point of contact, where possible, including dealing with matters of a sensitive and confidential nature.
- Meeting preparation, including booking rooms, inviting delegates, ordering refreshments, preparing, and distributing documentation.
- Producing a variety of high-quality documentation (advanced word processing), accurately and to deadline.
- To devise and complete Excel spreadsheets.
- To update and maintain databases accurately, collating statistical information and reports as directed, including social care databases.
- To undertake daily administrative tasks, such as managing and delegating from a shared electronic mailbox, scanning, photocopying, stationery supplies, as required.
Knowledge, skills & experience:
- Good experience of developing and maintain record keeping and systems.
- Good knowledge of office environments and administrative procedures and processes.
- Good knowledge of supporting, coordinating and delivering within a project work-stream.
- Good knowledge of the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Good understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Good experience of developing and maintaining record keeping processes and systems.
- Good knowledge of standard IT packages to an advanced level (MS Office 2010- Outlook, Word) and ability to learn new ones. Good knowledge of Excel to an intermediate level.
- Ability to develop appropriate administrative systems and procedures and train others in their use e.g., creation of a new filing system, IT database or spreadsheet.
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- Type:
- Contract, Temporary
- Start Date:
- ASAP
- Contract Length:
- 3 months
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- 7081_1712744849
- Job ID:
- 221446581
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