Team Administrator

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 227170**Salary**:

- £21,083 - £21,817- The OfS is an ALB rather than Civil Service. If you join us from the Civil Service your pension will carry with you but your continuous service and holiday accrual will not**Grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Resources and Finance**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Bristol, FiltonAbout the job

**Summary**:

- We are the independent regulator of higher education in England.
- We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We also care about supporting and developing our staff, working together to achieve more than each of us can do alone.- We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people.
- Job Summary
- The administrative resource unit (ARU) is a large team of professional administrators who provide a range of admin support across the organisation. Although you will be based in one directorate, the ARU is a flexible resource, moving to meet business need and adding variety and skills to the day job.
- The aim of the Team Administrator is to provide support to teams, primarily in a specific Directorate, and work flexibly across the organisation in line with business needs.**Job description**:

- strong written and verbal communications skills
- discretion
- attention to detail and organisational skills
- flexibility and team-working
- knowledge of relevant software and word-processing programmes.**Responsibilities**:

- managing enquiries (internal and external) to ensure information reaches the right people to respond (using shared inboxes)
- providing administrative support to assignments as required- engagement with stakeholders to ensure that the relevant team receives appropriate administrative support**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension

Things you need to know

**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- The Office for Students culture is based on the values and competencies of Ambition, Diversity, Learning and Openness. The behaviours we demonstrate when we do our job is as important as getting the job done.
- Ambition - delivering at pace
- Diversity - interact respectfully, value differences, share access to opportunity
- Learning - developing self and others, changing and improving, managing a quality service
- Openness - Communicating, collaborating and partnering,
Knowledge and Learning
- Actively takes responsibility for finding out information
- Takes responsibility to obtain, develop, organise and share knowledge and information that may be of use to others, ensuring it is accurate and up to date
- Planning
- Plans and prioritises tasks successfully, taking account of others’ needs as well as own
- Takes account of foreseeable risks
- Resolves competing priorities within resources available, in the light of others’ priorities and work life balance
- Communications
- Manages own time to allow opportunities for effective communication with others Communicates to all parties in a way which creates a positive impression of the OfS
- Speech is clear, concise, of appropriate complexity and tailored to the audience. Content of speech is accurate
- Writing is clear, concise, of appropriate complexity and tailored to the audience(s). It follows house style and uses correct grammar. The content of writing is accurate
- Relationships
- Aware of how one prefers to relate to others and where necessary, adapts personal style to achieve best results
- Takes into account others’ perspectives
- Negotiates optimum outcomes and secures understanding from those with whom one may not agree
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil se