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Brook Street are recruiting for an Executive Assistant on a temporary contract.
Initial contract until June 2025.
Pay rate: £13.36 per hour
Location: Harwell Campus, Didcot
Hours: Mon - Thurs 8am - 4pm, Fri 8am - 3pm
We are currently looking to recruit Support Officers to work within our Facilities User Office. The User Office The office deals with many thousands of visiting researchers per year and provides a professional and friendly service in dealing with their practical visit arrangements.The User Office team consists of a team manager plus three support officers. Whilst each team member has particular areas of responsibility, all team members are expected to contribute to the smooth working of the user office, including covering for other team members during absences.
Support Officers would need experience with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook and be able to effectively operate general office equipment.
Further duties include:
Arranging travel and accommodation for visitors (short term and long term)
User registration and safety induction on arrival
Liaising with external agencies, universities, institutes etc.
Providing organisational support for meetings, workshops and conferences
Maintaining user databases and web pages'
Answering telephones, checking emails and responding/forwarding accordingly
Processing expense claims
Dealing with general day to day queries
Preparing user-related statistical reports
Other general office tasks as required
Cover for other members of the team as required
We are looking for:
- Excellent team working skills
- Proven customer services skills
- Good organisational skills
- Attention to detail'
- Initiative and flexibility
- An ability to communicate effectively and work under pressure
- Ideally you will have a background in office work, including use of email, spreadsheet and word processing packages, plus experience of working in a customer based service is essential.
Please Apply online
Brook Street are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest?and state the role that you are interested in.We are committed to engaging with you. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.
