Business Support Assistant

Opus People Solutions Ltd; Redditch; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Opus People Solutions Ltd on behalf of Redditch Borough Council is seeking a Business Support Assistant to provide admin and organisational support to the Community Safety Team and the North Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership (NWCSP). The role focuses on supporting day-to-day operations and maintaining efficient processes in a busy council environment.

Based at Greenlands Business Centre, Redditch, the position is office based, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with an hourly rate of

Qualifications

• Experience of administrative support or project support.
• Ability to handle sensitive data.
• Local Authority experience would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• To assist the Community Safety Team with the co-ordination, implementation and promotion of community safety initiatives and projects
• To support meetings including distribution of documents and papers, taking minutes and notes, managing mailing lists and meeting invites maintaining communication and information sharing with partners and customers.
• To support the community safety project funding by raising purchase orders, processing invoices, maintaining receipts and keeping basic records of procurement and payment documentation.
• To monitor and maintain all customer and partner access routes; answering calls, responding to emails, managing mailboxes and directing enquiries
• To carry out clerical support functions including managing team correspondence, arranging appointments, meetings and co-ordinating team calendars.
• To support the maintenance and accuracy of the website, community safety information on council websites and any internal intranet pages ensuring content is correct, up to date and relevant.
• To support coordination of various Community Safety commissioned services, including receiving referrals, co-ordinating allocation of services, keeping accurate service records and managing communication between commissioned services and service users.
• To be responsible for maintaining and updating a variety of records, data and filing systems.

Skills

Administrative support

Project support

Meeting coordination

Data handling

Job description

Business Support Assistant

Hourly rate: £14.13

Working hours: 37 Monday-Friday

Location: Greenlands Business Centre Redditch B98 7HD - office based

Contract: temporary 3 months

Role Overview

Opus People Solutions are recruiting on behalf of Redditch Borough Council for a Community Safety Assistant to provide a comprehensive, efficient, and effective administrative and organisational support service to the Council's Community Safety Team and the statutory North Worcestershire Community Safety Partnership (NWCSP). Supporting the smooth running of day-to-day community safety service operations.

Role responsibilities

• To assist the Community Safety Team with the co-ordination, implementation and promotion of community safety initiatives and projects


• To support meetings including distribution of documents and papers, taking minutes and notes, managing mailing lists and meeting invites maintaining communication and information sharing with partners and customers.


• To support the community safety project funding by raising purchase orders, processing invoices, maintaining receipts and keeping basic records of procurement and payment documentation.


• To monitor and maintain all customer and partner access routes; answering calls, responding to emails, managing mailboxes and directing enquiries


• To carry out clerical support functions including managing team correspondence, arranging appointments, meetings and co-ordinating team calendars.


• To support the maintenance and accuracy of the website, community safety information on council websites and any internal intranet pages ensuring content is correct, up to date and relevant.


• To support coordination of various Community Safety commissioned services, including receiving referrals, co-ordinating allocation of services, keeping accurate service records and managing communication between commissioned services and service users.


• To be responsible for maintaining and updating a variety of records, data and filing systems.

What we're looking for

• Experience of working in an administrative support or project support environment


• Previous Local Authority experience would be advantageous

Ability to handle sensitive dataAll offers will be subject to satisfactory compliance screening, including right to work in the UK and references. In addition, due to the nature of the role the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure will be undertaken.