Job Description

Our Public Sector client based in Stafford is looking for a strong Administrative Officer to help support their Outbreak Centralised Services Team. This is a full time 37.00 hour a week temporary role, paying £12.98 p/hr. It is currently on the system for 12 months and is based in the office for 60% of the time during each month, the rest will be working from home.

This role is supporting their Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) throughout the UK, providing administrative support when animal disease outbreaks occur.

The main role responsibilities are listed below, and any other ad hoc administration duties as required:

• Provide mailbox management, triaging and flagging important/urgent emails to the FOB team
• Data cleansing to ensure all information is correct on their internal system (records management)
• Ensuring all information for visits for the field team is accurate
• Raising Job request forms
• Making calls to stockholders
• General administrative support

The ideal skill set the client would require is:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Confident in making and taking phone calls (please note this role will not be based on the phones 100% of the time)
• Good working knowledge of MS Office package, particularly Outlook, Word & Excel. Expected knowledge of Excel would have more emphasis on the data input side, for example updating trackers
• Good communication skills, as this role would involve liaising with internal teams remotely, to provide admin support

Please be aware that this role will require a DBS and three years referencing.

If you feel that you would have the necessary skill set for this role and are ready to take on a new challenge, please apply online. Due to the high volume of applications for this role we may not be able to contact every candidate who applies.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.