Edinburgh, EH16 4NT
Circa 18,750 per annum.
Full-Time Permanent 35 hours per week.
Making sure everything we do runs smoothly.
The role
As an Administrative Officer across the Cluster, you will support the service we provide:
By delivering a full range of administrative and front of house services associated with the day to day running of our busy project based in our Management/Admin hub in Craigmillar area of Edinburgh.
By providing an excellent front of house service to greet internal and external visitors, ensuring their experience is welcoming and professional.
You will be dealing with a range of administration by assisting the senior business support staff with financial admin including petty cash, processing invoices and report checking. HR duties including inputting/extracting data and producing reports/spreadsheets. By sourcing/tracking and placing orders including cleaning equipment/food shopping and general activity equipment. By placing work orders with contractors and tracking/recording this information.
You will need:
-Experience that shows a proven background in business administration especially cash-flow, petty-cash and processing invoices.
-A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word and Excel.
-Experience of taking minutes at meetings.
-A high level of motivation and a flexible approach, with the ability to work to deadlines and manage changing priorities at short notice.
-The ability to maintain confidentiality, understand safeguarding responsibilities and act with discretion.
-A professional yet personable approach to give the best first impression of our services.
-Good organisation skills.
-Excellent communication skills at all levels by phone, email and face-to-face.
The way we work
We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here.
Rewards
We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits here.
For safe and happy childhoods
At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.
For more information, please contact Anne Marie Wilson on 07741627578 or email recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Guidant is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
