Business Support Officer

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Environmental Standards Scotland Full time

About the Role

Environmental Standards Scotland is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Business Support Officer to join our Comms and Corporate Services team. As a key member of our team, you will provide executive and secretariat support to our Chief Executive, Board, and Audit and Risk Committee, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide administrative support for general corporate service requirements, including information gathering and management, document retention and reporting, general correspondence, and routine compliance and monitoring checks.
  • Administrate the day-to-day general finance requirements, including creating and submitting purchase order requests and invoices, supporting colleagues with electronic procurement card payments, checking invoices at risk, producing routine financial reports, and other ad-hoc requests.
  • Assist with internal and external stakeholder management through the coordination of meetings.
  • Provide administrative support to the Corporate Services and Communications team, ensuring tasks are delivered on time and of the right quality.
  • Provide ad-hoc administrative support to the wider Investigations, Compliance and Standards Team and the Strategy and Analysis team.

Requirements

  • Strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel.
  • A strong customer focus, with excellent communications skills to work with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work on your own with minimal supervision, manage challenging workloads and competing priorities, while maintaining attention to detail.
  • A proactive approach and the ability to use initiative to come up with solutions quickly when challenges arise.

Qualifications

The minimum formal qualifications required for this role would be 5 GCSEs, or at least 3 years' experience gained working in a similar role. Other qualifications equivalent to these may also be acceptable, if you are in any doubt, please contact the Recruiting Manager named at the bottom of the advert to discuss.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,140, Environmental Standards Scotland contributes £9,310 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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