Inshore Boating Support Administrator

Location: Weymouth National Boat Centre, Dorset, DT4 8TZ (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent, Part Time, 21 hours per week

Salary: £13,914 per annum pro rata (£23,190 per annum full time equivalent)

Closing Date: 26 June 2026

Are you an administrator looking for a new opportunity? The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure, while also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development.

We are currently looking for a Support Administrator to join our team.

About the role

The Inshore Boating Support Administrator works on development and administration of processes and policies that support our on the water activities, assisting with routine correspondence on all matters relating to the Inshore Boating department.

Responsibilities

• Answering and signposting enquiries received by email, post and phone.
• Updating and amending held records on all boats and equipment across the charity.
• Management and tracking of data to review and identify trends.
• Support the updating of personal records as required.
• Supporting the Head / Assistant Head of Inshore Boating with the admin of the department.
• Support admin in the wider learning directorate.

Requirements

• Experienced in the use of Microsoft Office programmes, EXCEL and Office 365 tools, SharePoint and MS Teams.
• Experience of Oracle based databases.
• Working as part of a team; Demonstrating a flexible and innovative service.
• Engaging, influencing and enthusing colleagues, volunteers.
• Experience of developing and managing business-to-business relationships.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per annum, increasing with length of service.
• Hybrid working for many roles.
• Volunteering Leave.
• Life assurance (4x salary).
• Private medical insurance.
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Access to the Marine Society Digital Library.
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling.
• Employee development opportunities.

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed.

MSSC is an equal opportunities employer. We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.