Senior Administrative Lead: Governance & Projects

Allison Bash; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Pension scheme

Annual leave 28–32 days

Flexible working hours

Training & progression

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work

Electric & hybrid car scheme

Discounts & salary sacrifice

Job summary

Gateshead Council is seeking a capable and organised administrator to support the Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities group. The role involves diary management, minute taking, responding to enquiries, and assisting programmes and projects.

You will work closely with Directors and senior Officers in a busy, collaborative environment. Responsibilities include coordinating meetings, handling invoices, and contributing to governance processes, while maintaining confidentiality and meeting

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 GCSEs at Grade 4 or higher including Maths and English.
• Level 2 Business Administration Principles Certificate or demonstrable experience.
• Experience providing administrative support and responding to enquiries.
• Experience organising and servicing meetings, including papers and minutes.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Experience handling confidential information appropriately.
• Ability to develop templates or spreadsheets to gather/present information.

Responsibilities

• Diary management to support the senior leadership team.
• Respond to enquiries via telephone, post, email and social media.
• Handle invoices, raise orders, and update systems.
• Coordinate partnership and governance meetings, agendas, reports and papers.
• Arrange meetings, book rooms, set up virtual meetings, take minutes.
• Support internal/external programmes and projects, take notes, record actions.
• Assist with FOI/SARs, risk management, assurance and governance tasks.
• Contribute to project plans and core documents.

Skills

MS Office suite

GCSEs incl. Maths & English

Level 2 Business Administration

Administrative support experience

Handling enquiries from customers

Meeting organisation & minute taking

Work under pressure

Confidential information handling

Template/spreadsheet development

Data retrieval & collation

Independent working & initiative

Empathy & patient communication

Problem solving

Calm under pressure

Education

GCSEs incl Maths & English

Level 2 Business Administration certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Teams

Outlook

Excel

Job description

Gateshead Council is seeking a capable and organised administrator to support the Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities group. The role involves diary management, minute taking, responding to enquiries, and assisting programmes and projects.

You will work closely with Directors and senior Officers in a busy, collaborative environment. Responsibilities include coordinating meetings, handling invoices, and contributing to governance processes, while maintaining confidentiality and meeting