Housing Environment and Communities Assistant

2 weeks ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Council Full time

**Grade F - SCP 14 - 19 (£27,334 - £29,777)**

**About the role.**

This is an exciting opportunity to join Gateshead Council's new Strategic Housing Service providing vital support and assistance to Directors and Senior Officers across the Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities Group. We are seeking to appoint to one full time role.

You will have responsibility for coordinating partnership and governance meetings and providing administrative support across the service. This will include attending meetings in a support capacity and accurately taking and recording minutes, managing diaries, responding to enquiries and handling invoices. The role will also involve providing assistance to programmes and projects.

**A bit about Gateshead Council**

We’re truly committed to providing our customers with the highest quality of service and we need like-minded people who can help us deliver a sector leading service. We need people who want to make a difference, who are talented, possess the right knowledge and skills and who want the chance to demonstrate how good they are.

**What’s in it for you? Well, there’s so much on offer and here’s just a few of the highlights**
- You’ll be paid a competitive salary plus additional allowances where relevant.
- We’ll help you save for your future with an outstanding employer contribution to your pension of approximately 18.9% per year.
- You’ll get a generous annual leave package of 26 days annual leave (plus 2 statutory days) for new employees, rising to 30 days (plus 2 statutory days) after 5 years continuous local government service.
- You have the chance to buy up to 10 additional holidays per year.
- You’ll have access to great health and wellbeing support, including discounted membership to GO Gateshead Leisure Services and ability to use our cycle to work scheme.
- We’ll give you the chance to take advantage of various offers and discounts on shopping and household spend, including O2, Virgin Media and Dell

**You must have knowledge and experience of **
- Providing administrative based support
- Effectively responding to enquiries from customers or other services
- Organising and servicing meetings, including preparing papers taking minutes
- Managing diaries, appointments and conflicting priorities
- Handling orders, arranging payments and updating relevant systems
- Demonstrating effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
- Working with speed, accuracy and attention to detail
- Effectively dealing with sensitive or confidential information
- Developing templates or spreadsheets to gather and present information
- Ability to input, retrieve and collate information from systems
- Working independently and using own initiative Using Microsoft Office (including outlook, teams, word and excel) and internet-based search engines
- Administrative systems, processes and documentation

**You must have the following qualifications.**
- A minimum of 5 GCSEs at Grade 4 or above including Maths and English (or equivalent)
- Level 2 Business Administration Principles Certificate or equivalent or relevant demonstrable experience

**It’s time to apply



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