Job Description

Clerical and Admin Assistant.

Location: Sheffield (Will allow working from home but must live in the Sheffield area for training purposes)

Job Type: Temporary

Sector: Public Sector

Pay: £ 10.14

Hours: Mon- Fri 9-5 or 10-6

Our Public Sector client has an exciting and brand-new opportunity to join their team and help the environment in the UK. Are you exceptionally friendly, do you have excellent time management skills and are you wanting to make a difference to your local environment? Then this is the role for you!

What's in this for me?

If you were to join this admin team it would provide you with all the necessary skills and knowledge base to explore all avenues of the public sector world which could further push your career to new heights!

This client would be the ideal fit for yourself if you have experience in admin already and are looking to make the UK more sustainable. Geography graduates are ideal for this role, but we welcome candidates from all sectors and walks of life.

You will be provided with all the training necessary to complete your daily tasks within this client.

The Team

Environmental permits are required for activities that could pollute the air, water or land, increase the flood risk, or adversely affect land drainage.

The National Permitting Service (NPS) consists of 450 staff determining these environmental permits and licences. You will be working within one of our support teams. These teams have a strong customer focus, and are essential in providing a range of administrative services that support the permit and licence application process

What will be my day to day?

Our Permitting Support Team manage incoming low risk license and permit applications, providing support to technical centres throughout the application process. You'll contribute to the Environment Agency's vision of creating a better place for people and wildlife by helping to regulate low risk activities.

Within this role your daily tasks will be as follows:

• Act as an initial point of contact for customers who need information and advice
• Review applications to assess their completeness and obtain further information from the customer if required
• Manage your own workload of ongoing cases and queries
• Update databases and records
• Accurately complete applications
• Work alongside team members in delivering team and individual targets

The Temporary Worker will provide routine administrative support tasks according to well-established procedures. Examples of work performed will include but not be restricted to: