About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the business support team within the commissioning and contracts team.
As the Business support officer, you will support the team to manage the workloads and prioritise workloads to ensure that all tasks within the team are completed in a timely manner
What will you be doing?
The team has a large remit and work across a number of different systems you will be involved with the following areas:
- Provider supplier maintenance within Eclipse, Carefirst and ERP Gold
- Contractual administration
- ERP finance tasks
- Process and procedure development
- Supporting Project Groups
About you
- Understanding of office environments, record maintenance/management and financial systems sufficient to devise and improve administrative systems.
- IT skills and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail with ability to produce well-presented documents.
- Able to plan and allocate work effectively and efficiently.
- Able to meet deadlines and work in an organised manner.
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.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
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
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.
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.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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