Southend-on-Sea City Council
Location
Southend on Sea, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Working for Southend-on-Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work-life balance. As a Unitary Authority, we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time Advanced Administrator/Receptionist in an 11 months fixed term capacity.
The post will support Southend Family Centres and, specifically, A Better Start Southend in the recording of data for people, projects and activities associated with this programme. A Better Start Southend is a 10-year programme to support families and children by improving children's services in Southend. This role will involve the set-up, maintenance of records relating to A Better Start activity, including inputting data into systems and ensuring that data is cleansed and accurate. It will primarily be based in a Leigh on Sea Family Centre, with regular time also spent at the other offices of A Better Start Southend. You will need to be able to travel with ease.
To be successful in this position, you must be an experienced, advanced administrator with 3 GCSEs in A-C, including Maths and English.
You will have a high standard of inputting and cleansing data systems and administrative skills, including Word and Excel. Along with this, experience and understanding of working collaboratively with internal and external teams and the ability to prioritise.
Pension :
Southend-on-Sea City Council provide membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for employees aged under 75. The LGPS is a generous scheme and provides you with a future income, independent of share prices and stock market fluctuations.
Leave Entitlements:
We offer our employees a generous leave entitlement from 25 days up to 32 days based on length of service (Continuous service). Southend-on-Sea City Council also offer a range of flexible working and family-friendly leave.
*We also offer paid time off to allow employees to undertake volunteering activities*
Here at Southend-on-Sea City Council we also offer our employees free access to a benefit portal that provides access to wellbeing support and a range of salary sacrifice schemes to help spread the cost of items, including:
If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
To request a copy of the Job Description/Person Specification for this role, please contact Nathalie via email [email protected]
Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above, so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.
All applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.
The Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.
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