Location: Faversham (office based role)
Ref: Jan 2025
Salary: Negotiable according to experience
This is a varied role providing secretarial, administrative and general office support to the team to ensure the office runs smoothly and efficiently. This role is a 5 day week in the Faversham office. Consult Construct want to promote effective communcation and provide consistency to our team and suppliers in having a contact in-house that is present 5 days a week so it is important that the Administative Assistant is permanently office based.
Job Details
- Greet visitors to office offering refreshments.
- Responsible for the social media posts on Company website, LinkedIn, Facebook Instagram and Twitter to include project/case study updates (2 post a week max).
- Ensuring news is fresh on the company website and circulating weekly newsletters to our team in-house.
- Deal with the incoming and outgoing post including couriers.
- Answer the telephone, take messages, deal with enquiries.
- Photocopying, binding, electronic filing and archiving.
- Ensure the correct templates and standard letters are used to support surveyors.
- Typing – including audio typing.
- Order the office stationery and refreshment supplies.
- Manage and oversee the shared surveying equipment to know where each asset is at all times.
- Manage the printers, stock and office stationery ensuring printing issues are dealt with promptly.
- Diary management to book training and events for surveyors.
- Monitor the info@ email inbox and action emails.
- Assist with arranging meetings to support the team.
- Will be trained to open new project files using Xero finance package.
- General ad hoc duties to provide support to the whole team, as required.
- Assisting the team to ensure company’s Quality Management System and standards are met.
Essential requirements
- To be able to work 5 days a week in our Faversham office.
- Confident and personable to meet and greet.
- Competent in using the Microsoft office suite.
- Good working knowledge of posting on social media professionally.
- Working knowledge of Xero would be beneficial although training will be given.
- Be a team player and able to pick up tasks in colleagues absence and ability to assist the team with company priorities.
- Keen eye for accuracy of tasks.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and be able to present the finished article confidently.
- Well spoken and friendly helpful manner.
- Organised and the ability to multitask.
Benefits
- Permanent office based position
- Salary, negotiable, according to experience
- Discretionary Profit & Performance Related Bonus Scheme, after probation period is completed
- Professional membership subscriptions paid
- Working Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm in the Faversham office
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and birthday off
- Workplace pension
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- Team events & days out - i.e., Beach Day, team building days etc
If you are ready for a change and want to be part of a forward-thinking company where hard work is rewarded, please send your CV and covering message outlining why you are suitable for this position to:-
lucy.caterer@consultconstruct.co.uk
Consult Construct is an equal opportunity employer and positively encourages and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
Absolutely no agencies or unsolicited approaches from anyone other than direct applicants please.
