Administrator - Law

2 weeks ago

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom West Sussex County Council Full time

The Opportunity

Salary: £25,583 to £25,989 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home

Interview date: w/c 17 November 2025

Reporting to a Team Leader, as an experienced Administrator, you will provide a customer focused and efficient administrative service, prioritising your daily tasks in accordance with team requirements and service objectives.

You will be responsible for delivering a range of administrative tasks to a high standard of quality within agreed timescales. These are likely to include tasks such as data entry, scanning documents, welcoming and signposting the public visiting council reception, filing, arranging meetings and sending agendas, collating information, updating spreadsheets, and updating council IT systems.

You may be asked to work at a designated office, provide support remotely or work flexibly, dependent on service needs.

What are we looking for?

  • You'll be a great team player who can build and maintain good working relationships and who can communicate well in English, both verbally and in writing.
  • You will be organised, able to prioritise work and deliver on deadlines. With your focus on accuracy and attention to detail you will have strong core administrative / office skills.
  • Being both adaptable and flexible, you will enjoy the challenge this role will give you to meet service needs, where you will be able to work well in changing situations and embrace new ways of working positively and effectively.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

  • an excellent local government pension scheme
  • generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
  • a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
  • maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
  • volunteering opportunities
  • training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
  • a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
  • health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00987.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Fiona Gardiner (Principal Lawyer) at For issues or queries regarding your application please contact

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application helppage.

CC

LOCATION

Chichester area

CONTRACT TYPE

Permanent

JOB TYPE

Administration

CLOSING DATE

09 November 2025

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