Business Support Assistant

4 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

**Business Support Assistant (Residential & Catering Services)**:
**Salary: Grade 5 (£25,285 - £28,929 p.a. depending on experience)**

We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

**Do you have experience of providing business support to senior managers? Do you have excellent communication skills with the ability to maintain effective working relationships? Do you have excellent attention to detail?**

Working for a Director or a Head of Service, within Residential and Catering services, your duties will include - writing and delivering effective communications for students, staff and external contacts, ensuring content is appropriate and relevant for the target audience; diary management; helping to plan and organise meetings & events attended by managers, team members and external service partners; minute taking; making travel and accommodation arrangements and bookings; processing claims for expenses; organising & maintaining records and files and undertaking general administrative duties

We will want you to be interested in maintaining, developing and improving administration and communication standards in the service you work for. You will demonstrate innovation and creativity as well as the ability to adapt to different ways of working and a commitment to your own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role.

In order to be successful in this role, you will have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and have experience of working to assist senior managers in a business support/admin role. You will possess excellent IT skills with a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint. You will have excellent communication and organisation skills and will be able to work independently using your own initiative and judgement in order to make decisions.

Normal working hours will be 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday. However, there may be an occasional requirement to work evenings and weekends.

**What we offer in return**
- 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) - That’s 42 days a year
- Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance.
- Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
- Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
- Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more

**To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact**:
Anne Bielby, PA, Estates & Facilities Directors office

**Location**:

- Leeds - Main Campus**Faculty/Service**:

- Facilities Directorate**School/Institute**:

- Residential Services**Section**:

- Accommodation Services**Category**:

- Administrative and Clerical Support**Grade**:

- Grade 5**Salary**:

- £25,285 to £28,929 p.a.**Post Type**:

- Full Time**Contract Type**:

- Ongoing**Release Date**:

- Thursday 20 July 2023**Closing Date**:

- Thursday 03 August 2023**Reference**:

- FDRES1143


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