Admin Officer (Readvertisement)

Job Description

We believe everyone deserves a great Glasgow life and that starts with the people who work here.

Glasgow Life is a charity like no other. Our vision is to improve the lives of everyone in our city. To help us achieve that, we are looking for an Admin Officer to join our Business & Strategy team supporting Community & Libraries and Glasgow Young Scot Kidz Card.

Our teams focus on making a real difference through culture and sport in Glasgow. If you’re excited by the idea of being part of that, this could be the job for you.

What you need to know

Hours: 35 hours per week. Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:00.

Contract type: Permanent.

Pay details: The listed salary is for a full-time role. The hourly rate is £17.57 per hour.

Location: At Commonwealth House. 38 Albion street, Glasgow G1 1LH with excellent public transport links and payable parking nearby.

What you’ll do

As an Admin Officer, you’ll be a part of an established Business Support team, reporting to the Senior Admin Officer. You’ll play an essential role in managing clerical support across your service area and contributing to corporate-wide strategic objectives. This includes providing a wide range of essential administration to the Service Operation teams, driving business improvement, and ensuring processes are efficient and effective.

Your work will make a visible and lasting difference. This could be:

• Supporting our communities
• Helping people get active
• Creating cultural experiences
• Or working behind the scenes to make it all happen

Please note this is a re advertisement and previous applicants should not re-apply.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone with the right skills who brings energy to the role. If the following sounds like you, apply today!

We’re looking for someone with the ability to:

• Lead, motivate and manage a team, deploying resources and respond to operational needs
• Allocate duties and responsibility within the team ensuring that all work is concluded to the required standards and timescales
• Make real time service decisions in response to operational issues in line with local procedures and establish guidelines
• Consolidate and report various sources of relevant information to inform others; interpret data and made recommendations for action to Management
• Carry out a wide range of administrative services to support the Senior Admin Officer, Service Areas, Colleagues and Business Partners.

Download the Person Specification in the Job Attachments section on MyJobScotland. Use this to shape your application and show how your experience aligns with the job.

When selecting candidates for interviews, managers will look for candidates who meet all the ‘essential’ criteria listed in the Person Specification. If there are many candidates, they may also consider desirable skills. So, include those if they apply to you.

 

What we offer

At Glasgow Life, our work changes lives. As a charity, we bring communities together and support wellbeing through sport, culture, heritage, and learning.

Learn more about Glasgow Life in our 10 Facts video in the Further Information section on MyJobScotland.

We support you to live a great life. Inside and outside of work. Some of our benefits include:

Holiday

When you join, you’ll get 30 days’ holiday. Plus 6.5 public holidays if you’re full-time. This increases to 35 days after 5 years of service.

Fancy a bit more time off? You can buy extra holidays too!

Application Packs

We want everyone to be able to apply. If you need the Application Pack in another format, like Braille, large print, or another language, please call us on 0141 287 1054.

If we need to post it to you, we’ll send it by second-class mail within three working days. Please allow enough time to complete and return your application before the closing date. If you think you might need more time because of accessibility needs, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

There are also a number of Accessibility Tools compatible with the myjobscotland website which may assist you with your application. More information on these can be found at https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/accessibility-statement.

Further Information

 

For further information about working for us please refer to our website https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/work-with-us