Early Years Project Assistant

Directorate: Children and Families

Section: Education and Family Support

Grade: Level 6

Actual Salary: £13,855.50 - £15,030.00

Hours: 18.5

This advert is open to both Internal and External applicants.

Job Description

A part-time Project Assistant is required to join the Early Years Quality Team providing administrative support for the delivery of training programmes, communicating with schools and nursery settings in the City and administering finance tasks.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Booking venues
2. Raising purchase orders
3. Invoicing and receipting purchases
4. Requesting manager approval for payments
5. Maintaining related records

You will work within a small, friendly team that provides training, support, and monitoring services to primary schools and pre-school settings.

Sound ICT skills and use of MS Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will be essential. Technical support to use role-specific systems, such as 'Synergy', will be provided during induction.

Flexibility can be facilitated enabling a blend of remote and office-based work within the working week.

For further information about the role, contact Emma.Drakeford@stoke.gov.uk.

Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy, their application will receive priority. If this happens, you will be advised accordingly.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.

To Apply, please visit our website: https://webrecruitment.stoke.gov.uk/wrl/. If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.