About the role
You will be providing friendly, efficient, customer-facing, front-line public services to clients and partners of Cambridgeshire Music within our Business Team. You will need to be able to work on occasion on evenings at some weekends, as required to meet service needs. You will be supported and supervised and have responsibility for managing stock and equipment as required. Our customer services include reception, digital systems support, information provision and face to face transactions with service users. Alongside this you will help our service run well by completing a range of administration tasks.
Within the day to day running of our Histon Music and Cultural Education Centre, activities can include helping set up spaces, library and instrument loan and general building operation and assisting in the delivery of events.
This post is offered initially on a 12 months fixed term basis and conversion to a permanent role will be considered during the contract period.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CHAT ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY PLEASE CONTACT JASON HOWARD RM ON JASON.HOWARD@CAMBRIDGESHIRE.GOV.UK

What will you be doing?
Our Arts Business Administrators are a vital part of our administrative support working with our staff, settings, and partners, within a dynamic and customer focused team.

You will be:

• Providing knowledgeable administrative support to ensure efficient service delivery.
• Communicating with a range of internal and external customers by telephone and email.
• Preparing equipment and ensuring appropriate stock levels.
• Ensuring tasks dealt with in a concise and timely manner.
• Ensuring information is accurately typed, recorded and systems updated.
• Personal administration.
• Preparing reactive financial processes

Check out the job description/person specification for some more details.
About you
We would like to hear from enthusiastic, motivated individuals who will provide a high standard of administration and customer service, striving to exceed our stakeholders needs and expectations.
A can-do, flexible attitude goes a long way with us, especially when accompanied by a smile. This is a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills of the Music Education sector whilst working in a dynamic environment.

You will have:

• Developing IT skills, basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and ability to work in databases.
• An organised and flexible approach to work, to enable you to multi-task and prioritise effectively.
• Administration skills enabling you to work independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, providing the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner.
• Awareness of the need for confidentiality, sensitivity of information and GDPR.

If this sounds like you, please demonstrate how you meet all the essential criteria of the person specification in your application.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• Scalable retention payments of up to £8850 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert

Please refer the Job description for details