Business Support Officer in Cambridge

Our benefits include a comprehensive wellbeing package covering all aspects of wellbeing, accessible by your family. You can buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme and take your bank holidays flexibly. We offer Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings, access to development opportunities, apprenticeships, and qualified coaches for personal and professional growth. Paid volunteering hours each year allow you to positively impact our community during your normal working day. Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity, and inclusion network is also available, along with opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards. Our Cambs Rewards account provides access to in-store and online discounts, as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

About the role: Join Cambridgeshire Libraries and support a service that connects people with reading, learning, culture, and their local communities. We're looking for an organised, proactive, and collaborative Business Officer to provide administrative support across the Cambridgeshire Libraries Service, including The Library Presents; our award-winning arts programme that brings high-quality performances and creative workshops into libraries across the county. This is a part-time job share role, requiring excellent communication, organisation, and teamwork skills.

What will you be doing? As Business Officer, you'll help ensure our services run smoothly by coordinating meetings, maintaining accurate records, supporting financial processes, and responding to enquiries. You'll provide high-quality administrative support that enables colleagues to deliver excellent services for our communities and support The Library Presents programme.

About you: We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience in an administrative or business support role.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise competing tasks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a friendly and professional approach.
• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, including maintaining effective handovers within a job share arrangement.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and experience of maintaining accurate electronic records.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of providing excellent customer service and responding sensitively to enquiries.
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths.
• Experience of financial administration or working within local government would be an advantage but is not essential.

About us: Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please consider applying. We are committed to building a compassionate, inclusive, and diverse workplace.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy.

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