Administrative Assistant
Job Type : Contract, Full Time
Salary : £11.95 – £14.59/hour
Administrative Assistant – Local Authority
Our local authority client is looking for an experinced Administrative Assistant to join their team. You must have experience of working witin local authority.
The Administrative Assistant supports technical and professional staff through the provision of administrative services, including maintaining section based procedures, delivering services through use of Microsoft packages, maintaining corporate or local IT systems, provision of information to internal or external enquirers.
Allocated tasks may include the following.
1. Process section based or council wide administrative processes, which are defined though, may require the application of criteria according to the presenting circumstances. Identify and refer complex issues.
2. Communicate with internal staff, and/or members of the public and other external enquirers. This may require the worker to gather information, follow up contact by phone, compose letters and e-mails.
3. Deal with incoming phone calls; providing information or advice to callers, taking messages, routing calls to the right person in an appropriate manner.
4. Maintain administrative related manual or electronic systems, including corporate IT systems, spreadsheets, databases, text files. The worker will able to answer straightforward queries on application.
5. Produce simple written and statistical reports, using appropriate software.
6. Provide general office support; ordering and receiving stationery, document management, meeting arrangements, faxing, photocopying etc.
7. If required to do so, set up simple administrative processes that support the work of the Section.
8. Dependent on the work of the Section takes notes and/or manages information that is particularly sensitive or confidential (e.g. child protection, legal issues etc).
If you are interested in this role and would like more details, please apply
More Information
- Address Southwark, Greater London
