Business Support Officer

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

- 247610**Salary**:

- £27,820 - £32,240-
**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Range C**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMT - Corporate Centre Group**Type of role**:

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

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- The post will based in London (1 Horse Guards Road).About the job

**Job summary**:
**About HM Treasury**:
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.
- Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.**Job description**:
**About the Group**

**Corporate Centre***

The Corporate Centre Group provides a wide range of corporate services to enable people at HM Treasury and many of the other organisations who form part of the Treasury Group (including the Government Internal Audit Agency, the Debt Management Office and the new National Infrastructure Bank) to operate effectively and efficiently. We are a diverse group, both in terms of our professions and in our ways of working.

The Corporate Centre Group is made up of: Commercial; Correspondence and Information Rights; Finance; Human Resources; Treasury Business Solutions (TBS); Multisite Darlington Economic Campus (MDEC) and Treasury Group Shared Services (based in Norwich).

**About the Team**

**Group Management Services Team**:
The Group Management Services (GMS) team sits at the heart of the Corporate Centre Group and plays a critical role in supporting the Directors, and Deputy Directors, helping them manage their time and resources effectively, and achieve their objectives. The team is integral to the success of the whole Corporate Centre Group, and the services we provide to HM Treasury and its wider partners.

Its smooth running is essential to ensuring that this busy Group is provided with excellent administrative support and that its Leadership Team receive first class PA support. Our group is particularly encouraging of flexible working practices and has many varied working arrangements within the group. Please feel free to discuss this with the vacancy manager.

**Key Accountabilities**

We are looking for a Business Support Officer to join our small, friendly team and provide excellent PA support to Directors and Deputy Directors (D/DDs) in the Corporate Centre Group. The role is a permanent position.

Key accountabilities are:

- Provide PA support for up to two Directors or Deputy Directors (D/DDs) in the Corporate Centre Group: Build a strong working relationship; Work with D/DDs to agree how they would like to be supported across the areas listed below.
- Provide diary management: lead regular diary meetings with D/DD to review and forward plan; provide strategic overview of diaries, identifying opportunities, clashes and preparation required; coordinate meetings including recurring meetings and all logistics such as room bookings and travel.
- Provide meeting preparation and management: ensure D/DDs is briefed for meetings; identify and ensure D/DD has papers for meetings utilising OneNote; facilitate smooth running of meetings including room prep, technical support and minutes where required; take ownership of D/DD actions and support delivery against deadlines.
- Actively support wider GMS team: be a team player by working flexibly to support the rest of the GMS team; work together to cover absences; cover coordination of CCG responses to Parliamentary Questions, Correspondence and Freedom of Information requests.
- Actively support Corporate Centre Group and Leadership as a GMS team: take on cross-cutting tasks to support the CCG leadership team such as supporting CCG communications and events, performance appraisal, business continuity and business planning; support the wider Group as a point contact for administrative processes and corporate systems such as OneNote and the room booking system.

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