Safer Communities Administrator
About the role
We are seeking an organised and proactive Safer Communities Administrator to provide high-quality administrative, financial and business support across the Stronger and Safer Communities Service. Working closely with operational and partnership teams, you will support the delivery of community safety initiatives through effective financial administration, meeting coordination, data reporting, diary management and general business support. This varied role is key to ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of services that help reduce crime, tackle anti-social behaviour and improve community wellbeing across North Northamptonshire.
What will you be doing?
In this role, you will provide administrative, financial and organisational support to the Stronger and Safer Communities Service.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Processing invoices, purchase orders and contract payments.
- Providing administrative support to managers and the wider team.
- Managing the shared Safer Communities inbox and responding to enquiries.
- Organising meetings, preparing agendas and taking minutes.
- Managing diaries and coordinating appointments.
- Maintaining records, spreadsheets and service databases.
- Supporting data reporting and performance monitoring.
- Assisting with audits, communications and business support activities.
- Coordinating room bookings, equipment and other service logistics.
- Supporting business continuity arrangements when required.
This is a varied role that helps ensure community safety services are delivered effectively and efficiently across North Northamptonshire.
About you
- Five (5) GCSEs including Maths and English at Grade 4 or above, or equivalent.
- Experience of processing invoices, purchase orders or financial transactions.
- Experience of administrative work, including maintaining spreadsheets or databases, writing emails, and producing summary information from MS Excel.
- Experience of working in teams and delivering services to customers.
- Experience of working to challenging targets and to plan and prioritise effectively to achieve and meet deadlines.
- Experience of taking minutes, preparing meeting papers and supporting managers.
- Experience managing diaries, coordinating meetings and handling confidential information.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently while supporting wider team objectives.
- English fluency.
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
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Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
Salary range
- £27,254 - £27,694 per year