Business Support Officer

Our client Sport England are looking for an experience Business Support Officer to join their team.

This a temporary position (with a possibility of extension) but one in which you would be able to gain valuable exposure/experience working within the Public Sector.

36 hours per week between 8.30am - 5.30pm Monday - Friday.
Pay rate 12.34 per hour
Job role duties:
-Act as the first point of contact for visitors, dealing effectively with postal correspondence, incoming calls, emails, diverting such correspondence to other staff where appropriate.
-Manage specific email inboxes across the Directorate.
-Produce and/or print documents and presentations and make arrangements for these to be sent to wherever they need to be.

-Make administrative arrangements for travel, accommodation, and meeting room bookings.

-Provide business support such as minute taking, preparing meeting packs, and briefing documents for team, Directorate or other cross-organisational meetings, committees, or events, and following up actions with the appropriate individuals.

The additional skills, knowledge and experience required.

-Good standard of general education, including grade C or above (or equivalent) in GCSE English and Math's or equivalent experience.
-Experience of successfully administering the day-to-day operation of a small team (6-10 people).
-Assisting in event organisation either face to face or online (20 - 150 delegates)
Good level of organisational skills and an ability to prioritise a busy workload /meet tight deadlines.
-Experience of working in a customer-led environment
-Excellent MS Office skills and experience of working in an office with MS Office products.

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