Plymouth, United Kingdom

Business Support Officer

 Job Description:

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Plymouth to assist with the appointment of a Business Support Officer, on a 2-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £12.18 - £14.68 per hour

Responsibilities:

  • Deal with enquiries, providing advice and guidance to customers
  • Check applications, consider evidence, make decisions and produce documents based on set criteria.
  • Undertake routine planned administrative support to a range of teams across the council, including inputting information into relevant databases to support data quality

Qualifications:

  • GCSEs A*- C (9-4) or equivalent in English and Maths
  • A willingness to undertake appropriate learning and development as
    required.

Experience:

  • Experience of using Microsoft Software Packages e.g. Word, Excel,
    Outlook.
  • Experience of giving information and signposting customers in a tactful and professional manner face to face, over the phone, online and in writing.
  • Experience of providing an effective and efficient business support service to customers.
  • Administrative experience with an understanding of office procedures.
  • Experience of prioritising own workload to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Experience of maintaining documents, records and data e.g. financial
    records, customer records or accounts.

Please note:

  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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  Required Skills:

Discretion Pay Data Quality Enquiries LTD Writing C Databases Records Software Business English