Administration Officer

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Beacon Support is looking to appoint an Administrative Officer, initially on a fixed term contract of 18 months. You will report to the Head of Services and will work closely with other senior staff. You’ll be required to provide administrative support with projects, day-to-day organising of lower band support, updating databases, assisting with student allocations, responding to email queries from needs assessors, marketing, and document production/control.

This is initially a home-based role. Hours will be agreed with the Head of Services and whilst there will be some limited flexibility, we will be unable to accommodate significant fluctuations in working patterns.

Some of Your Key Duties Include:

• To ensure all administrative and project based tasks are completed with a high level of accuracy
• To work closely with core team members in a complementary and courteous manner.
• To be able to effectively multi-task as you will often need to work across several different tasks
• Carry out all other tasks as requested within the post holder’s appropriate skill set.
• To make excellent use of your time, especially since you will often be required to work independently

What Do You Need?

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Have a demonstrable knowledge of MS Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Have demonstrable administration knowledge and skills.
• Be able to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
• Be able to work to deadlines to produce work to a high standard.
• Be a clear and concise communicator maintaining a polite and professional manner.
• Strong research skills and a passion for supporting students with learning difficulties.
• Have experience of supporting neurodiverse students, particularly with ADHD and ASC.
• Be self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Excellent timetabling skills.

£ TBC

This is a .5 contract with scope for an additional 8 - 10 hours per week

Interviews will take place week commencing February 20th

Proposed starting date: March 01st

Please note, we will not be able to appoint any applicant where there is a conflict of interest in relation to other employers, given the confidential nature of much of the work you will be involved in.

Please send a covering letter with your CV

Beacon Support Ltd. is an equal opportunities employer.

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Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 10-20 per week

Salary: From £22,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Administration: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

Application deadline: 20/02/2023
Expected start date: 01/03/2023