Operations Support Assistant

Sight Scotland Veterans; Brighton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous employee pension scheme

Learning and Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted cinema tickets

Discounts for carers

Job summary

Sight Scotland Veterans is seeking an Operations Support Assistant to provide in-person customer-focused support, manage diaries and events, respond to enquiries, maintain records, and support finance and procurement. The role is based at Linburn Veterans Centre and involves collaboration across the organisation.

You don’t need to meet every requirement; many skills are learned on the job. The post offers the chance to contribute to services that help people with sight loss, with a supportive

Responsibilities

• Provide in-person, customer-focused support to ensure smooth daily operations.
• Manage diaries and events, respond to enquiries, and maintain accurate records.
• Support finance and procurement processes and collaborate with teams across the organisation.
• Work at Linburn Veterans Centre and contribute to cross-service needs.

Job description

The Operations Support Assistant provides in person customer focused support to ensure the smooth running of daily operation activities. Physically based within the services, the position required interactions with a wide variety of stakeholders, both internal and external, and affords the opportunity to directly see and experience the impact out services make in the livers of those we support. The role contributes to efficient service delivery by managing diaries and events, responding to enquiries, maintaining accurate records, and supporting finance and procurement processes. As well as in-person support to the service in which the role is based, the position is part of a team collaborating to provide support across the whole organisation. This role is based at our Linburn Veterans Centre. You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

Benefits

• Generous employee pension scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Discounts for carers