AddressRole Purpose
Full Time position - 37 hours per week until May 2025
Skills & Learning Adult Community Education is an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ provider. Our service is a cornerstone for adult education across Dorset, offering a diverse range of learning opportunities aimed at enhancing skills, gaining qualifications, promoting well-being, and improving life opportunities for the community we live and work in through education.
At Skills and Learning we recognise that our reputation as a high-quality community learning provider relies on our fantastic team of people, who are committed to supporting our learners and staff.
We have an opportunity for a highly organised and effective Business Support Officer to join our Business Development and Engagement Team and provide a range of administrative support duties to our team working on the UKSPF project.
Main Responsibilities
The post holder will undertake a range of general administrative duties including support for meetings and events and collating and reporting data. Please see Job Description for more details of the role.
The Ideal Candidate
We would welcome applications from candidates with good interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of attention to detail. You will be competent with MS 365 including Excel and Sharepoint as you will be using these applications daily.
Experience
- Significant experience in an administrative role, using computerised systems.
- Experience of using a range of IT systems, including Word, Excel, email and databases.
- Experience of producing documents to a high quality standard.
- Experience of financial administration/budget management as relevant to the role.
- Experience of customer care.
- Experience of supporting projects.
Experience in the education sector will be an advantage, however we would welcome applications from all sectors.
This is a hybrid role, where you will be based in one of our designate learning centres in Poole, Bournemouth, Blandford, Dorchester or Weymouth with the flexibility of some homeworking. This is a full time post for a fixed term until May 2025.
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. Expected to be in place 2024.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
