Property Administrator

Property Administrator.

Salary: £24,300 per annum.

Location: Watford, Hertfordshire.

Contract: Permanent, Full-time - 35 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays.
• Support in gaining professional qualifications.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Blue Light Card – discounts at over 15,000 large national retailers.
• Discount portal with your favourite brands.
• Flexible maternity.
• Adoption and paternity packages.
• Up to 7% employer contribution pension.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

This is a new and exciting opportunity based at our office in Watford. We are looking for a Property Administrator to start as soon as possible to support our property team with a variety of administrative tasks including undertaking regular updates to our systems across the Estates department including Fleet, Compliance, Utilities and more.

As well as other general admin duties, you will be supporting our services by liaising with external contractors as and when necessary, to obtain any additional information relevant to any ongoing projects at our properties.

This will be a varied role in which you'll need to provide an effective, efficient administrative service which would suit an experienced administrative professional who wants to make a difference to the lives of children and families across the UK.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Providing a high-quality range of administrative services to support our property team.
• Managing, updating, and running reports from our internal databases
• Being effective, intuitive, flexible, and able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team, to meet to deadlines.
• Being a confident communicator, able to converse with a variety of external contacts, companies, and professionals from a variety of backgrounds both internally and externally.

Let's talk about you

• Demonstratable experience within a similar administration role or evidenced transferrable skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Experience of using PCs on a business network running MS Windows and Office, along with email and internet and specific business applications i.e., finance.
• Experience of providing a confidential, professional service and to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
• Good at prioritising and meeting deadlines with excellent organisation and planning skills.

Good to know

Interviews to be held 8th April 2024.

Application Process

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Talent Pool

We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Contact: Scott Jones, Recruitment Partner on 01923 361778.

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace by actively encouraging applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic candidates and people with disabilities, as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and meaningful action to ensure fair opportunity to all groups in our communities and for AFC.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.