Portsmouth City Council
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Salary: Band 5 - £16,460 - £17,616 p.a. (£24,362 - £26,073 p.a. FTE)
Hours: 25 Hours per week (days/hours worked are negotiable)
Contract: fixed term / secondment to 31 March 2025 or sooner should the post holder return.
Please indicate you have your managers permission if applying for a secondment.
Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we’re all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.
With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority’s main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to Multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.
Your New Role
You will provide technical assistance and consultation support to the Transport Planning Team, supporting the functions of the team including Park & Ride, bike share, the rental e-scooter trial, electric vehicle charging, consultations, and other transport planning projects.
You will also be responsible for the administerial tasks, including the raising of purchase orders and processing of invoices as directed by more senior team members. You will also be required to remain up to date and compliant with all relevant organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of best practice.
What you’ll need to succeed
You will have good communication skills and experience of dealing with customers, providing advice and guidance, as well as being able to build effective relationships and have a positive influence on stakeholders and colleagues.
You will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft applications and good general IT skills. You will have good numerical analysis skills to be able to understand and work within a budget, and to discuss and negotiate prices with suppliers.
If you have a customer focused approach to work which promotes your passion to deliver excellent service and continuous improvement on transport issues for the city's residents then we would love to hear from you.
Please download the full Job Profile HERE to see the full details of the role.
What you’ll get in return
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potential with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
Please check out the link here to view the benefits of working with us!
What next
To make sure your application is above the rest, please download the Job Profile HERE to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role.
When completing your application please upload a cover letter detailing how you are the best person for the job, giving examples of your experience and any transferrable skills. You may not be shortlisted for interview if you do not do this.
We look forward to speaking with you soon.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact [email protected]
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
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£16.46k - £17.62k per annum
