Business Officer

About the role
We currently have a vacancy for a Business Officer (admin) position in our Special Education Needs - Statutory Assessment Team. This vacancy is a fixed-term contract for 32 hours a week until March 2026 with the possibility of extension.

Interviews will be held week commencing 16th June and 23rd June.

You will be required to provide high quality administrative support to the team. This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience within the Local Authority and develop knowledge and understanding of education services.

What will you be doing?
The role will require:

- Co-ordinating and organising administrative tasks, undertake daily activities as directed by the service.
- Attention to detail as you will be working with confidential, sensitive data.
- Adhere to business processes to achieve a quality and consistent service.
- Use inhouse data recording systems to update information as and when required.

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, organised and flexible, with the ability to manage your own workload, prioritise and forward plan. You will have excellent interpersonal skills combined with the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner, including communicating with a wide range of internal and external customers.

You must be reliable, have a polite manner and a friendly approach to help you get on with people at all levels. You will need to be a good team worker but also have the ability to work on your own initiative when required and be able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive **wellbeing package** to cover **all aspects of wellbeing**, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to **4 weeks additional annual leave** (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays **flexibly** to better suit **your personal circumstances**:

- Make **Additional Voluntary Contributions** (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to **development opportunities**, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support **your personal and professional growth**:

- ** Paid volunteering hours** each year so you can make a **positive impact on our community** during your normal working day
- Access to **Peer Support Groups** through our IDEAL staff **equality, diversity and inclusion** network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive **Employee Recognition Awards**:

- An **Our Cambs Rewards** account, giving you access to in-store and online **discounts** as well as our **Car Lease** and **Cycle to Work** schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.