What's involved with this role: Temporary Business Support Officer/Admin – Resources Job Ref: Newcastle 6121314933510 Pay Rate: £12.59 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 7.30am to 4pm Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: Newcastle The purpose of the role is to provide a range of service specific business and administrative support services to make sure Directorate needs are met in line with the Cabinet’s vision, priorities and values. Key Responsibilities: Take part in identifying and embedding business process improvements. Deal with enquiries, including technical queries about the service in line with our procedures and protocols. Collate and prepare management information as needed. Work with nominated officers responsible for maintenance, repairs and security of designated buildings, giving administrative support as needed. Give confidential administrative and secretarial support including arranging and servicing meetings, preparing agendas and taking minutes as needed. Give interactive WP support to the allocated service using digital, audio or copy typing. Contribute to skills transfer activities by the demonstration of duties to support business continuity and to continually improve our service. Develop and maintain positive joint working relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Give a professional and courteous reception service as needed. Account for, reconcile and make sure of the security of petty cash, stock and cash equivalents in line with our Financial Regulations. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Qualifications: Minimum 5 GCSE Grade 4 / C or equivalent including Maths, English and Science. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience of working in an administrative role. Excellent communication skills. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please