Senior Administrator

**The Role**

As a Senior Administrator at Homewise, you’ll help make the office run like clockwork. You’ll be in charge of the day to day functioning of the office, ranging from meeting and diary management through to providing support to our people and visitors.

You will also provide robust administration support to other business departments with a particular focus on the Property department to ensure administrative tasks associated with all purchase and sales transactions are performed accurately and efficiently.

With an efficient, professional approach and ability to set up processes and systems, you’ll keep the office running smoothly while also delivering the administrative tasks needed by the business.

To join us, you’ll need a proven work experience as a senior administrator, in-depth understanding of office management and daily operations and excellent IT skills. You should have excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong organisational and time-management skills. Just as important is an approachable and helpful nature.

This role is a full-time permanent role which is based in our offices in Working, West Sussex. Salary is £20,000 to £23,000 per annum depending on experience.

**In this role you will**:

- Maintain an office space to a high standard which delivers cleanliness, promotes the company culture and values.
- Take the lead on the day to day organisation of administration tasks across the team.
- Monitor and procure needed office supplies, including staff refreshments and consumables minimising costs wherever possible.
- Administer all company post and delivery requirements.
- Welcoming of visitors to the office including assisting with visitor travel and parking arrangements, maintaining the visitor log, maintenance of office reception, professional delivery of refreshments and management of meeting room facilities.
- Manage the maintenance and repair of office installations, including electrical and plumbing systems through liaison with contractors.
- Property department administration support.
- Property Management department administration support.
- Assist with sales team’s administration requirements.
- Assist in the creation, maintenance and improvement of the Administration department best practices and processes.
- Create, enhance, and update excel spreadsheets to track and chase Property department transaction activity.
- Develop and maintain strong filing systems.
- Call answering for overflow when required.
- Any other duties required by the company & team.
- Assist the Property department with managing both verbal and written enquiries and responding within specific timeframes.
- Where relevant, signpost to third parties and external agencies.
- Arrange appropriate surveys on prospective HFLP properties ensuring compliance with current legislation.
- Assist with the handling of pre contract management enquiries from Solicitors, ensuring accuracy of response.

**Experience and Qualifications**

The Senior Administrator will have (Essential):

- Business or office administration experience
- Administration experience working in a fast paced office environment

The Senior Administrator will ideally have (not essential):

- Office coordination/management experience

**Key skills and personal qualities**
- Proactive
- Strong IT skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Personable

**Sound like you? Send your CV to **us** **today.**

**A bit about us**
At Homewise, we help change the lives of people aged 60+ through our Home for Life Plan; enabling them to live in their dream home for much less than the market value and create security for their future too.

We're a family run business and have been helping people find their ideal home for over 50 years. Our family values form the foundations of our business - our team are our number 1 priority, and our customers' wellbeing is at the core of everything we do.

Whilst our office is in Worthing, we help people across England and Wales. It's a great time to be joining our growing business as we develop plans for national, digitally led, expansion, and continue to invest into our systems and teams to deliver our plans to help hundreds more people this year.

We pride ourselves on the first-class service delivered to customers and are always looking for ways to improve not only our service but our systems, communications, and marketing practices to drive our performance. We look forward to meeting more like-minded people to join our growing teams.
**Why work at Homewise?**
From our large open plan office that’s just a stone’s throw from the beach and a 10-minute walk from the rail station, we take care of our people by providing:

- Competitive salary with yearly reviews*
- Holiday entitlement starts at 25 days plus bank holidays and increases with length of service
- Homewise Rewards (our in-house recognition programme)
- Regular Health & Wellbeing initiatives
- In-house Learning and Development departm