Business Services Assistant

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Business Services Team for a committed and flexible individual to provide efficient and effective administrative support to the education improvement service.

You will be joining a friendly team of experienced Business Services Assistants.  The role is varied, fast-paced and the ability to work as part of a team and meet deadlines is essential.

What will I be doing:

• Answering and responding to enquiries from schools regarding traded services and training enquiries.
• Liaising with consultants to plan, and deliver training sessions to schools, including the marketing off these via S4S, newsletters and correspondence.
• Organising meetings and coordinating events, ensuring colleagues have all resources required, including room hire.
• Taking minutes of meetings, including service minutes, governor minutes.
• Updating and maintaining excel spreadsheets and data sets.
• Responsibility for monitoring several shared inboxes, specifically the EIS traded inbox and governor support inbox
• Attendance and support at training events to assist presenters, via MS TEAMS and in person.
• Support traded work, including use of S4S, communicating with trainers and delegates, updating course packs, marking registers, evaluations and sending certificates.
• Communicating with trainers, schools and finance regarding bespoke training enquiries.
• Assistance with planning the governor termly training programme.
• To support when required with the governor support work, including updating school governor database (GATs) and governor support inbox.

We value your unique skills, knowledge, and experience, so please read the full Job and Person Profile to ensure you submit the best possible application. It's important to detail how you meet the essential requirements in the “Suitability for Job” section on your application form

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Excellent IT skills, which includes the use of Microsoft packages.
• An ability to work as part of a team undertaking a wide range of administrative duties.
• Experience of working in a busy office environment.
• Good communication skills both written and oral.
• Good organisational
• An ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
• An ability to interpret information and analyse data.
• An ability to work within organisational policies and procedures.
• An understanding of confidentiality, GDPR and Data Protection.
• NVQ Level 2 qualification or relevant office experience.
• Enthusiasm and transferable skills
• Minute/note taking experience
• Previous financial experience would be beneficial

Employees have access to a range of benefits and discounts including:

• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave per year (rising to 30 days after 5 years continuous service) plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata).
• Flexible working.
• Training and development opportunities
• Paid travel expenses if required to travel to other sites
• Smarter travel scheme including access to the cycle to work scheme
• Supportive management and team
• Access to our in-house occupational services which also includes free eye tests, physiotherapy and counselling
• Derbyshire rewards – offering hundreds of discounts and cashback

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If you require any further information or for an informal conversation, please email csbs.review@derbyshire.gov.uk and your query/request will be passed to the relevant service.

Provisional interview date: w/c 13 January 2024

Interviews may be conducted via Microsoft teams and arrangements will be confirmed with candidates.

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Apply now and take the first step towards a fulfilling career with us! By joining Derbyshire County Council you will have access to a range of amazing rewards and employee benefits, including our generous annual leave scheme, excellent local government pension and fantastic employee discounts. To discover more detail about the rewards and benefits available to you, click here

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