Administrative Officer

Administrative Officer

Salary: £23,151.50 per annum (£13,890 per annum pro-rata)

Location: Templeton, Pembrokeshire

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part-time - 21 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave (pro-rata) PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

About Action for Children

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

About the role

Based at our Ty Hydref service in Templeton, you'll be providing administrative support to our other services across West Wales who enrich the lives of the children and young people that we work with on a daily basis.

This will be a varied role in which you'll need to provide an effective, efficient administrative service which would suit an experienced Administrative professional who wants to make a difference to the lives of children and families across Wales.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Providing a high-quality range of administrative services across the departments.
• Being effective, intuitive, flexible and able to work to deadlines.
• Having a willingness to learn with strong attention to detail and adhere to best practices.
• Providing excellent customer service and being a good communicator.
• Having a sensitive approach to the work that we undertake.
• Working as a team but with the ability to work on your own initiative.

Let's talk about you

• Experience of a similar administrative role with excellent communication skills is essential.
• Strong IT Skills and experience of using various IT systems including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• To be a confident communicator and able to converse with senior professionals from a variety of backgrounds.
• The ability to take minutes at meetings.
• Good prioritization and time management ensuring deadlines are met, whilst maintaining the ability to handle sensitive data.
• To be proactive with a 'can-do' attitude.

Good to know

Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

As a non-profit organization, we are committed to the recent update from the Welsh Government in relation to 'eliminating private profit from the care of children looked after'.

By 2027, they aim to have the care of children who are looked after in Wales, to be provided by the public Sector and charitable or non-profit organizations.

Contact: Scott Jones via email at quoting reference 10677

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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