Business Support Officer

**Job Description
Business Support Officer**

**£30,033 to £31,440 per annum**

**6 Month Fixed Term - Our Newham Money**

**This role is based at Our Newham Money offices in Stratford.
**Our Vision**

Newham is a borough with a radical vision to build a better and brighter future. We are a diverse and aspirational place. By putting people at the heart of everything we do, we aim to enable all our residents to reach their potential and thrive.

**The Role**

Are you organised and take pride in your work?

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of residents within Newham?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you

We are seeking to recruit a Business Support Officer to join our exciting and challenging Business Support Service, to help play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for residents of Newham. We seek individuals who share our vision and can positively and enthusiastically contribute to the continuous improvement of the Business Support Service and Newham as an organisation.

Business Support provides administration to a wide range of services across the Council including Housing, Environment, Children’s and Adults’ services.

As a member of Business Support you will be part of a busy administrative team working within either our ‘Operational hub’ or the ‘Social Care hub’ carrying out a wide range of business processes to support our internal and external service partners. Working together to achieve our vision and make our service as efficient and effective as possible.

**About You**

**We are looking for people who have a wide range of skills and experience including**:

- Highly adaptable to changes in work priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Emotionally resilient
- Excellent minute taking skills
- High level of oral and written communication skills
- An ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload
- Methodical and logical thinkers
- Able to work across a broad range of administrative and clerical tasks.
- Excellent IT literacy
- A flexible and adaptable approach to work and being a team member.
- Preferably have an understanding of Safeguarding or other aspects of social care

In return, we offer an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, learn about a range of council services and to be part of a large organisation that makes a real difference to our local community.

Please view JD here

Closing date 21.10.2024

The Council reserves the right to close adverts early if there is a large response.

**Additional Information**

**Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.**

**We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload**
- About Us
The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the Theatre Royal Stratford East offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.- Newham has a large housing regeneration programme that will build over 1,000 new council homes by 2022._