Business Support Officer

**Business Support Officer**
**Scale 4 (£25,584 - £27,269 pro rata, actual salary £12,792 - £13,634)**
**18.5 hours, Part-Time**
**Permanent**
**Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking**

Application Deadline: 12 February 2025
Shortlisting Date: 13 February 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Interview Type: Microsoft Teams

**Your Role**

You will be expected to undertake a range of activities including the following (although please note it is not an exhaustive list):

- Plan and prioritise workload
- Ability to set and respond appropriately to deadlines
- Provide administrative support across a number of teams within Stockport Family
- Receiving and processing documentation, data and information (hard-copy and electronic, and including sensitive and confidential information)
- Receiving, recording, and forwarding invoices for approval
- Ordering supplies, receipting and invoice processing
- Preparing and sending timely correspondence to stakeholders
- Working across a range of IT systems alongside Council systems
- Contribute to updating of the Offices ‘Operating Procedures’
- Minute taking and providing efficient administrative support to funding panels
- Assist with training of new Business Support Assistants and Apprentices
- English GCSE C or above is preferred a good standard of English is imperative.

**About You**

You will be a hardworking, flexible individual with strong organisational skills and the ability to work on your own initiative, alongside solving problems and making decisions/recommendations to meet the needs of the service. You will actively seek ways to find efficiencies and improve processes whilst building strong working relationships with the service we support.

**About Us**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Part Time Scale 4 Post to support the School Effectiveness and Early Years Teams. The work will be varied, and you will be working as part of team supporting the Inclusion Service, School Effectiveness Leads and Early Years across the Borough.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

**Click here** to find out more about the Employee Benefits you will receive when you join our team**

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- Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria. _

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