JOB DESCRIPTION

• provide administrative support to the local team and business functions
• organise and minute meetings for local committees
• support colleagues carrying out tenders
• deliver training
• support with organising training for local and district staff
• support staff with, and act as a contact point for, core internal systems
• monitor local team mailbox(es), responding to or escalating queries
• support area leads by providing and analysing statistical data
• provide administrative support to team projects
• raise and process purchase orders and invoices
• supervise and provide guidance for various tasks done by business support officer colleagues and contribute to additional ad-hoc tasks or project work required by colleagues in the wider team
• take the lead on exploring where systems and processes can be improved or streamlined and influence positive change so front-line teams can focus on delivery
• collaboratively with subject matter experts and functional leads to develop, implement, and review innovative solutions
  And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager.

ESSENTIAL PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• competent IT user with experience in MS Office suite of applications
• experience of working in an office environment with a large, dispersed, and often remote, team

DESIRABLE PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• working knowledge and experience of using core Forestry England systems such as e-Financials

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As Business Support Supervisor, you will supervise and provide administrative and comprehensive business support to the local team and business functions.
Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.