Team Assistant

We have a great opportunity that has arisen for a skilled Administrator to join our Direct Services Department as a Team Assistant. The postholder will carry out a range of administrative and office support activities for senior colleagues within the Fleet team. This will include raising purchase orders, updating databases and spreadsheets, booking meeting rooms and external venues for meetings and training, carrying out research for team projects and more.

This role is a permanent position working 35 hours per week. We offer a flexible hybrid working approach which will be agreed with line management.

What you'll have

• Experience of working in an administrative role.
• Strong computer skills sufficient to operate a variety of software packages to produce correspondence and documents, and maintain presentations, spreadsheets and databases.
• Good oral and written communication skills sufficient to interpret and apply policies and procedures and to resolve problems, and to present a professional approach to all customers and stakeholders.
• The ability to work calmly under pressure with minimum supervision.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet the above criteria providing real examples.

Advert closing date: 10th May 2023 at 23:59

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.