Salary Range:    £20600 - £22847

FTE:    1 (35 hours/week)

Term:  Fixed (Until Jan 2023)

Closing Date: 09/01/2022

This is a great opportunity for an aspiring administration assistant to develop your skills and experience working in a busy cross function role. If you are you super organised and enjoy working in a fast pace environment, then read on and come and work for the Centre for excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS). This post is to cover maternity leave.

Supporting the wider team, the role involves providing general office and other day-to-day administrative support across all aspects the organisation. This will include financial administration, supporting HR processes, maintaining databases, working and developing relationships with key internal stakeholders and organisation of and support in the delivery of team meetings. In addition, you will assist with support to conferences and events as well as being involved in the development and delivery of administration processes and procedures for CELCIS.

You will be working remotely at home until CELCIS, and the University has ensured it is safe and essential to work in the office (we are based in the Curran Building at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), and you will have to support working from the office during the course of the contract.

You will have good skills involving organisational and planning, confidence in using a wide range of IT platforms although training will be provided, and good interpersonal and communication ability to build positive working relationships. You will be capable of undertaking the role with a level of personal responsibility and as a versatile and enthusiastic administrative professional you will embrace and adapt to new challenges.

You will enjoy working collaboratively within a busy but supportive team and working across CELCIS to provide a quality administrative service.

About CELCIS

At CELCIS our ultimate goal is simple. We want to make a big difference. All of our work is dedicated to making positive and lasting improvements in the lives and experiences of children living in, and on the edges, of care.

We work in close partnership with carers, social workers, teachers, health professionals, charities, the police, local authorities, and the Scottish Government, sharing our collective skills, knowledge and expertise to develop the best possible systems and practice for children in and on the edges of care. We always work towards making positive and enduring improvements through our innovative evidence-based implementation approach.

Our real strength is in our people. Team CELCIS are a friendly and skilled group of people who offer a shared commitment to making a real and lasting difference in young lives. https://www.celcis.org  

Please note this is a fixed term role to provide maternity cover for approx. 12 months or until substantive post holder returns.

Formal interviews for this post will be held on 25/01/2022.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Penny Scott, Admin Co-ordinator (penny.scott@strath.ac.uk).

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