Job Introduction
Administrator
Salary: £25,357 - £26,959 per annum plus excellent benefits
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Contract: 12 months – Fixed Term, 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 30th July 2024
Interview Date: 14th August 2024
We have an exciting opportunity for an Administrator to provide confidential comprehensive administrative support to our Governance and Compliance team on a fixed term basis for 12 months.
Main job responsibilities:
- General admin tasks including responding to queries from colleagues and stakeholders in a timely and professional manner.
- Assist with administrative tasks in support of data privacy work including liaising with colleagues and external parties, maintaining accurate records of data subject access and disclosure requests and data breaches details, assisting with preparation of documents for redaction
- Assist with arranging meetings, training, and other events
- Taking notes at meetings where required and produce accurate minutes.
- Assist with arranging meetings, training, and other events.
- Carry out general office and clerical duties, such as raising and tracking orders, maintaining records, electronic filing and post.
- Work in accordance with whg policies and procedures, acting always in the interests of whg and its customers, and deliver against performance indicators and individual targets.
- Actively promote and demonstrate whg’s values
Want to know more? See Job Description for key responsibilities. Visit our Website: https://www.whg.uk.com/ and view our 2030 plan: https://whg.shorthandstories.com/our-2030-plan/index.html
We're looking for someone who has:
- A confident and positive approach with the ability to remain calm under pressure and deal with difficult situations in an effective, professional and respectful manner
- Good standard of education; with GCSE English at minimum of Grade 4 (C) or equivalent
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including a professional and polite approach to dealing with people
- Attention to detail
- Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills
- Excellent IT skills which include the ability to confidently use all Microsoft Office applications
- Experience working within a governance environment would be advantageous but is not essential.
- Experience of taking accurate notes of meetings and production of minutes/actions
What’s in it for you?
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave, pro rata (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.
We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.
About us
Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.
It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.
We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.
We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.
For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com
