Hybrid Project Support Officer – Community & Budget Admin

Leicestershire County Council; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council is seeking a Project Support Officer with strong administrative and organisational abilities. The role involves providing excellent clerical support including accurate budgeting, assisting staff with events and projects, and contributing to initiatives that benefit communities across Leicestershire.

The successful candidate will be a team player with a keen eye for detail who enjoys data collation.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent with GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent.
• To co-ordinate updates to the family hubs website/other social media platforms working with the relevant web team contacts to ensure families have access to good quality information to support to the teams by supervising the day to day running of a number of email inboxes, undertaking routine telephone calls to families, and keeping data and recording up to date.
• Ensuring the efficient, accurate and timely provision of administrative and business support tasks necessary for the Family Help central workstreams in particular Best Start Family Hubs, Early Help Facilitation, and the Parenting Support offer.
• Proficiency in contributing to and understanding various project demands which includes key points in the calendar year such as quarterly returns to the Department for Education, monthly monitoring of data, etc.
• To have day to day responsibility for ensuring accurate and timely communications across teams, the service, and contributing to the development of newsletters, service meetings etc. This will include maintaining distribution lists.
• Supporting the efficient oversight of the budgets associated with a range of different funding streams
• To provide support to other team members across a range of venues as required at county wide events.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient clerical support including budgeting and financial tracking.
• Assist staff with events and projects across communities.
• Support Family Help central workstreams (Best Start Family Hubs, Early Help Facilitation, Parenting Support).
• Contribute to quarterly returns to the Department for Education and ongoing data monitoring.
• Maintain distribution lists and help with newsletters and service meetings.

Skills

Website updates

Email inbox management

Budget management

Data collation

Event support

Newsletter creation

Education

NVQ Level 3 or GCSE in Maths and English

Job description

Leicestershire County Council is seeking a Project Support Officer with strong administrative and organisational abilities. The role involves providing excellent clerical support including accurate budgeting, assisting staff with events and projects, and contributing to initiatives that benefit communities across Leicestershire.

The successful candidate will be a team player with a keen eye for detail who enjoys data collation.