Administrative Assistant
- Durham County Council
- Full Time
- Durham
- Grade 4 £24,790 - £25,992
Job Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for a full-time permanent Administration Assistant to join our dedicated team within Business Services, supporting the Asset Strategy team.
WHAT IS INVOLVED?
You should be an enthusiastic team player who takes pride in providing excellent customer-service. You will have good communication skills, be able to work under pressure to tight deadlines and with a high degree of accuracy, be well-organised and flexible, have good IT skills and manage changing priorities.
You will also need to be able to work unsupervised using your initiative. We are a friendly, and welcoming team, based at Corten House, Durham.
Your duties would include; Raising and payment of invoices, inputting of data into SPIIDUR system, assisting with preparation of delegated reports, monitoring an inbox and dealing with queries and providing general administrative support to the Asset Strategy team.
We encourage you to contact Jamie Thompson, [email protected] /03000 269194 to arrange an informal discussion about the role.
WHAT WILL I NEED?
You must have 5 GCSEs (grades A-C) or equivalent.
Please refer to the attached person specification for the full criteria.
REWARDS AND BENEFITS
We offer generous rewards and benefits that are designed to help you perform at your best:
- Competitive salaries and 27 days holiday per year rising to 32 days after five years continuous local government service.
- Option to purchase up to 10 additional days annual leave per year.
- Excellent work/life balance through schemes including job sharing, compressed hours and flexi-time (allowing up to 13 flexi days per year).
- Hybrid working (home and office working).
- Excellent contributory career average Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). Plus, top up options - Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme and standard AVC scheme for members of the LGPS.
- Wellbeing Portal and access to an Employee Assist Scheme.
- Wide range of learning and development opportunities including professional qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
- Employee Benefits Portal and Lifestyle Savings Scheme (discounts across a host of major retailers).
- Discounted DCC gym membership.
- Staff networks run by staff for our staff, including Race Equality and Diversity, Disability, LGBT+, Armed Forces, Carers, Menopause.
- Trade Union membership.
- A range of other salary sacrifice schemes such as car leasing.
