Administrative Officer

Location: Belfast

Hours: Part-time (working 21 hours a week) on a fixed term contract for 3 years

Salary: £17,479 per annum, pro rata

How do we work?

Action for Children does what is right, does what is needed and does what works for children in the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 301,000 children, young people and families.

Our Young Adult Carers Support service is a new initiative across Northern Ireland. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, Empowering Young People and delivered by Action for Children, we aim to raise awareness of Young Adult Carers with Health and Social Care Trusts, Community groups and other statutory services to help identify young adult carers and offer them support.

This role will be working 3 days a week, although there can be some flexibility regarding which days you work on.

How will you make a difference?

By supporting the Service Coordinator in all aspects of running the service

By answering the telephone and meeting and greeting visitors to the service office

By dealing with all correspondence regarding the service

By carrying out all general administrative and office duties for the service including scanning and updating digital records

By taking the minutes at team meetings

By updating databases and recording systems

By purchasing goods and services for the service while monitoring and updating a finance system

By being an integral member of the team

• What will you need?
• S/NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration or the equivalent or equivalent work experience.
• GCSE A-C in English, Maths and IT
• Strong working knowledge Office 365 and Excel
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, organisation and time management skills
• The ability to work as part of a team but also to use your own initiative
• The ability to work towards deadlines and multi-task
• The ability to respect confidentiality in the workplace and to provide a professional service to meet the demands of the role.

What are the rewards?

• Minimum 29 days' holiday (pro rata)
• Flexible working, including maternity, paternity and adoption packages
• Season ticket travel loans
• Company pension scheme
• Discounts at major high street retailers.

Plus, there's a lot more besides.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity.

Action for Children is committed to safer recruitment practices, designed to protect the welfare of the children and young people using our services.

If you meet all the criteria and would like to proceed with your application, you'll be redirected to an application form on our website which should only take around 5 minutes to complete. Please have your CV handy to upload. As this job involves working around children, there are some specific questions we need to ask you as part of your application process. Thanks for taking the time to apply and we wish you the best of luck!

Apply now!

Please note: Interviews are planned to be held on Wednesday 11th September 2019.