Business Admin Lead in Cirencester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job located at the Cotswold Locality Office. The salary ranges from £37,280 to £40,777 per annum for a full-time position of 37 hours per week on a permanent contract.

Would you like to work in a role which is both meaningful and rewarding, where you really feel that you make a difference? Do you constantly look for ways to improve the way you work and enhance the service that you deliver? If so, this is the perfect role for you.

About Us

This is a great time to be part of Gloucestershire County Council, as Children's Social Care is on an exciting journey, focusing our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to 'Make a Difference' to our local communities. We are an agile working organisation with a combination of office-based working and working from home (essential equipment is provided). We place a high premium on diversity and inclusion, as well as on health and wellbeing, and we offer a flexible working scheme based on business need. We offer Continued Professional Development and will support you to develop your skills and career prospects within Children's Services.

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Support manager to join us as a full-time Lead Administrator in Children's Social Care. The successful candidate will lead the Business Support function within Gloucestershire East, Children's Services teams. This post will be based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The role involves leading a team of administrators to support managers across the service areas to achieve the expected and desired outcomes of service delivery through effective management and support to essential tasks and activities required. You will lead and undertake project work that supports the service area to evolve in line with business requirements.

Duties will include:

• Supervision with team members and completion of Personal Development Reviews
• Performance and Absence Management
• Use of data to drive performance
• Working within and maintaining building compliance
• Quality assurance oversight to financial trackers
• Provide updates and impact statements regarding administrative capacity
• Provide regular communication of financial commitment to Budget Holders

About You

As a Lead Administrator, you will work closely with the Service and Group Managers to realise and anticipate financial budgets and undertake monitoring and tracking activities to ensure that administration performance continues to meet the business requirements. You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach with an ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines. Proven leadership skills and evidence of strong oversight of process and performance are essential.

In Return We Will Offer You:

• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Access to relevant training and career progression
• Annual leave of 25.5 days (pro rata) up to 30.5 days (pro rata) after 5 years employment
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

Working in Children's Services requires an applicant who can be proactive or responsive to changing demands and resilient to some of the tough emotional content of the role. However, it is also a role that can bring great reward and job satisfaction.

Additional Information

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have the right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at the shortlisting stage. Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential. It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.