Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 12 February 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 4 February 2024
Contract Type: Temporary until 31 March 2025
Salary: FC3 £22,525.71 to £23,633.23
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week
Location: Town House, Kirkcaldy
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Provide a comprehensive administrative support service to the Community Development staff team. Such as maintaining computer systems and processes to support service delivery, data/word processing, preparing and distributing documentation, financial transactions, printing, scanning, copying, mail handling, scheduling and coordinating meetings and appointments, minute and note taking and customer contact duties.
Including handling telephone calls, emails and visits from the public and taking messages, bookings, providing advice or information and handling straight forward complaints, escalating as appropriate.
Create, maintain and archive project files and learner records for all youth work, CBAL and community development projects.
Update and maintain systems that support data capture. Support the retrieval of this data to allow the completion of reports and returns.
Support members of the Community Development Team with their duties including raising orders, processing invoices, administering daily cash sheets, preparing income and expenditure paperwork and petty cash.
The Person
The candidate should be:
- Educated to SCQF level 4, which includes National 4 or Standard Grades at General level or O’ Grades or equivalent.
- Have customer Service/care skills and experience.
- Demonstrate good communication skills, both oral and written and experience of maintaining confidentiality.
- Have experience of working in an office as part of a team.
- Have experience of using IT applications, showing ability to use packages effectively.
- Have good numerical skills and experience of dealing with money and banking.
- Have experience of applying attention to detail.
- Have good time Management and Organisational skills.
- Able to work under pressure while still achieving results.
- The ability to travel within Fife.
Further Information
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For Further Information Contact: Lesley Pringle - lesley.pringle@fife.gov.uk