Business Support Assistant

Salary

£25,583 - £25,989

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Administration/Clerical

Date posted

10/12/2025

Job reference

REQ21843

Directorate: Regeneration and Environment

Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week (precise hours negotiable).

A great opportunity to join a newly established team

The Business Development Team sits at the heart of the Regeneration and Environment Directorate and plays a key role in driving improvement across the organisation. The team leads and supports a wide range of policy areas aimed at improving outcomes for local people, including change and transformation projects, workforce development, customer experience enhancements, digitalisation, investment delivery, and legislative compliance.

We are looking for a proactive and organised Business Support Assistant to join our team. This role is essential in supporting the planning, coordination, and delivery of training and development activities across the directorate. You will help ensure programmes run smoothly by managing course bookings, maintaining accurate training records, raising purchase orders, and updating intranet content. You will also coordinate advertising, waiting lists, and promotional activities to enhance staff engagement.

Working closely with the Workforce Development Officer, you will play a key role in ensuring training activities are well-organised, accessible, and aligned with workforce development priorities.

Applicants should have experience in an administrative role, ideally supporting learning and development initiatives. You will be confident using a range of ICT applications, including word processing, spreadsheets, and databases, and demonstrate strong literacy and numeracy skills. Experience of handling sensitive information securely, promoting digital access, and providing excellent customer service in a fast-paced environment is essential.

You should be adaptable, well-organised, and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines. Strong communication skills and attention to detail are vital, along with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Further details can be found in the job profile. If you are interested in applying for more than one role, please get in contact (see details below).

For a further chat, please contact Tanya Lound at

Qualifications required:

NQF Level 2 qualification (e.g., GCSEs Grades 4–9) or equivalent experience.

This post will have access to the Public Services Network, if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at the Basic level (unspent criminal convictions).

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.

Until 31st March 2026 existing employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time). The Council is in consultation with trade unions regarding continuation of any agreement from 1st April 2026.