Communities and Inclusive Growth Administrator

Gravesham Borough Council; Gravesend; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days annual leave

VivUp discounts

Career development and e-learning

Eye care vouchers

Cycle to Work

Employee assistance programme 24/7

Hybrid working

Free parking

EV Salary Sacrifice

Job summary

Gravesham Borough Council is seeking an organised administrative professional to support services and projects within the Communities and Inclusive Growth Directorate. You will handle meetings, minutes, records and stakeholder engagement while contributing to financial administration and website updates.

The role offers hybrid working, 37 hours weekly, and a salary of £27,664 to £29,461 per year, with generous annual leave and employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Organised with strong attention to detail and a customer-focused approach.
• Ability to make decisions and use initiative to resolve issues.
• Excellent communication and administrative skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support across services and projects in the directorate.
• Support community-focused projects and stakeholder engagement.
• Manage records, arrange meetings, create agendas, and circulate notes and actions.
• Assist with financial administration: raise orders, invoices, and monitor payments.
• Update directorate websites and platforms (Everyday Active, Go Vocal, Resilience Direct, Gravesham 2040).
• Handle FOI requests and GDPR compliance; assist with complaint data.
• Support the directorate’s event programme and assist with pre-event prep and on-day needs.
• Perform other administrative duties as required.

Skills

Organised

Attention to detail

Customer service

Decision making

Initiative

Job description

• Salary: £27,664to £29,461per annum (inclusive of allowances)
• Location: Civic Centre, Gravesend
• Status: Full time(Permanent)
• Hours: 37 hours per week

The role

The postholder will provide administrative support to a range of services and projects across the Communities and Inclusive Growth Directorate, helping to ensure the smooth and effective delivery of work.

The role will support projects that benefit local communities, including employment and skills, health and wellbeing, arts and culture, and inclusive economic growth. This includes assisting initiatives that support residents, local businesses and the visitor economy.

To provide an effective, customer friendly administrative support function for a diverse range of projects and activities, supporting stakeholder engagement, records management, arranging meetings, creating agendas, writing minutes where required, and circulating notes and action points.

• Assist with financial administration, such as raising orders for goods and services; raising invoices and ensuring that all invoices are paid on time; and monitoring payments on the purchase order system.
• Assist with the update of some of the directorate’s external and internal websites and platforms, such as Everyday Active, Go Vocal, Resilience Direct and Gravesham 2040.
• Collect information for Freedom of Information requests (FOI’s) within the directorate, enquires and complaints plus making sure the requirements for ensuring General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are followed.
• Support the directorate’s event programme as required, including assisting with pre- event preparation and on the day provide support if required by the event co-ordinator.
• Any other assistant/administrative duties, consistent with the above duties of the post.

About you

We are looking for someone who is organised and has good attention to detail, very good customer service skills, the ability to work withinitiative to resolve issues and make decisions andinitiative to resolve issues and make decisions.

Working for Gravesham

We are committed to delivering to the community and working with us means you are part of delivering the level of growth and improvement our community needs and deserves. A range of services have been provided to over 106,000 people and 4,000 businesses.

The Borough of Gravesham, situated in the north west corner of Kent, covers 25,000 acres of the most varied countryside in south east England. Bordered by the River Thames to the north, it is at the heart of Thames Gateway and has a significant role to play in the regeneration of a major government growth area.

• A minimum of 23 Days Annual Leave, plus paid bank holidays.
• Access to over 1000+ instant discounts from favourite retailers, restaurants, food delivery services and attractions via our benefits portal VivUp.
• Career development, training opportunities and access to e-learning
• Access to eye care vouchers and VDU Glasses
• External Occupational Health service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme 24/7
• Hybrid Working (minimum two days in the office per week)
• Free parking
• Octopus Electric Vehicles Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job description.

Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.

The proposed interview date for this role is 16 November 2026