Corporate Support Officer (Full Time)(Temporary) - REN15164

Renfrewshire Council; Paisley; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Renfrewshire Council is seeking a Corporate Support Officer (Temporary) to provide confidential secretarial support to Chief Officers. The role involves managing diaries, handling correspondence, and producing briefing papers and reports using ICT.

You will need extensive secretarial experience at senior levels, public sector exposure, and advanced skills in Word and PowerPoint. The post is temporary, with potential for renewal depending on business needs.

Qualifications

• Significant secretarial experience at Director/Senior Manager level.
• Experience in the Public Sector and diary management.
• Experience arranging events and conference calls.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive secretarial support to Chief Officers.
• Manage and process incoming mail and emails.
• Maintain a diary of appointments and meetings; produce and maintain documents (briefing papers, board reports, presentations, structure charts) using ICT.
• Assist in arranging meetings with internal and external partners.

Skills

Secretarial experience

Diary management

Interpersonal communication

Literacy

Numeracy

Tools

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Advert

Corporate Support Officer (Temporary)

An opportunity has arisen for a Corporate Support Officer to provide a comprehensive and confidential secretarial support service to Chief Officers within Renfrewshire Council.

The Corporate Support Officer will carry out a wide range of tasks to support Chief Officers including interacting with counterparts within Renfrewshire Council and other external agencies and partners to arrange meetings ;managing and processing all incoming mail and email correspondence as required; maintaining a diary of appointments and meetings and producing and maintaining a variety of documents such as briefing papers, board reports, presentations, structure charts etc. using a range of ICT packages.

It is essential that you have significant secretarial experience at Director and/or Senior Manager level; experience of working in the Public Sector and experience of diary management and arranging events and conference calls.

It is essential that you are able to work efficiently and accurately when under pressure to meet tight deadlines and have effective organisational, planning and prioritisation skills and attention to detail.

You must have effective computer skills including Word (advanced level) and PowerPoint (advanced level), Effective organisational, planning and prioritisation skills aswell as attention to detail.

Effective literacy, numeracy, interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) are also essential.

Please note that this post is temporary, subject to business needs and funding for 12 Months or until the requirement for the post ceases, whichever date is the earlier.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check, the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post. If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk