Salford City Council 

 

Working Hours: 24 hours per week 

Grade: 2B, Scp 9 – 13, £16,746 - £17,915 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid working or Salford Civic Centre

Closing date: Friday 5th April 2024 at 10pm

Salford City Council is committed to developing a vibrant city; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the city.  The aim of Neighbourhood Management is to play a leading role working with a full range or partners and the community to co-ordinate work and shape the future of the neighbourhood.  

 

As one of four Administration Officers supporting our neighbourhood areas, the successful candidate will work with the Neighbourhood Manager in developing and sustaining local partnership structures, joint working and service delivery.  The teams work with residents, elected members, community based organisation and a range of partner agencies to address the neighbourhood priorities. The team also manage a number devolved budgets, ensuring that they are allocated to priority projects.

 

This is a busy role and there is an expectation that the post holder is able to manage their own workload and yet work as part of a team, to ensure all the responsibilities of supporting the service are considered and acted upon within agreed timescales. This is a part-time, permanent position and there will be a requirement for some occasional evening working. 

 

The successful candidate will have minute-taking skills, together with a proven administrative background.

 

Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they meet the following necessary requirements of the post in order to be shortlisted for interview:-

 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Possess ability to work under pressure and show flexibility in order to meet the needs of the service.

• Excellent organisational skills including the ability to manage your own workload and meet tight deadlines.

• Possess a good understanding of the concept of positive team working and able to develop and maintain positive working relationships with the teams and partner organisations.

• Excellent customer care skills.

• Experience in Microsoft packages and ability to learn new databases.

• Excellent minute taking skills

 

 

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes.  In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs. 

 

Continuous service commitment 

New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion

 

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