Senior Business Support Officer

Role Responsibility

Are you a pro-active self-starter with a flexible ‘can-do’ attitude?  Can you manage your own time and that of others?  Are you a good organiser?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly customer focused and professional Senior Business Support Officer to join the Business Support Team within the Strategic Commissioning Division on an 18 month fixed term contract.

In this role you will be managing a team of Administrators to ensure the Division is able to fulfil their functions as efficiently as possible.  The Business Support Team are responsible for providing support to all units within the Strategic Commissioning Division.  This includes PA support to Heads of Service, inbox and diary management, systems support and other ad hoc requests.

You will be:

- positive, resilient and proactive in your approach to work

- highly organised with an excellent attention to detail

- able to work confidently to ensure deadlines are met

- able to collect and report on performance information for the team, in an accurate and timely manner

- experienced in supervising and developing a team of administrators, including identifying and setting priorities

- able to exercise total confidentiality and the highest degree of tact and diplomacy in dealings with senior officers, service users and staff, at times involving complex matters

- experienced in minuting meetings

- able to use your own initiative, knowledge and experience to arrive at appropriate solutions to problems

The environment can be fast-paced and demanding; the successful candidate will be able to work well in a team but someone who can also work successfully on their own projects.  You will need to be able to demonstrate that you are self-motivated and a self-starter.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

Contact Details

Laura Prentice Senior Business Support Officer, Laura.Prentice@kent.gov.uk  (03000) 417473

About the Company

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.