Administrative Officer

Action for Children; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent children's charity in Cardiff is seeking an Administrative Officer to provide high-quality business support. The role involves coordinating with various services and presenting data to stakeholders. Suitable candidates will have proven administrative experience and excellent organizational skills. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits including annual leave and a pension scheme.

Benefits

29 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages

Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution

Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience with providing a confidential, professional service.
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
• Demonstrated tact and diplomacy with staff.

Responsibilities

• Providing high-quality administrative services across departments.
• Liaising with services to support children and young people.
• Compiling data and presenting information to stakeholders.

Skills

Proven work experience within a similar administration role

Confident in using PCs on a business network running MS Windows and Office

Excellent organisation and planning skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Effective communication skills

Job description

Job title: Administrative Officer

Salary: £23,151.50 per annum

Location: Cardiff

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract for 6 months, Full-time – 35 hours per week

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

About the role

Based at our Head Office for Wales in Cardiff, you'll be working in a small, friendly team. Regularly liaising with our services who enrich the lives of the children and young people that we work with on a daily basis

In this busy and exciting role, you'll provide high quality business support to relevant members of our Wales Leadership Team ie

• Presenting a variety of information in various formats to different senior stakeholders
• Undertaking some HR tasks and supporting different business areas
• Compiling data, and liaising with internal and external colleagues

This will be a varied role in which you'll need to provide an effective, efficient administrative service which would suit an experienced Administrative professional who wants to make a difference to the lives of children and families across Wales.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Providing a high-quality range of administrative services across the departments.
• Being effective, intuitive, flexible and able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team, to meet to deadlines.
• Being a confident communicator, able to converse with senior professionals from a variety of backgrounds

Let’s talk about you

• Proven work experience within a similar administration role
• Confident in using PC's on a business network running MS Windows and Office, along with email and internet and specific business applications i.e. finance.
• Experience of providing a confidential, professional service and to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
• Good at prioritising and meeting deadlines with excellent organisation and planning skills.
• To work within a team environment, demonstrating tact and diplomacy with other members of staff.

Good to know

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about the role, please review our full job description by visiting our careers page.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at [e-mail] quoting reference 12171 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.