Administrative Assistant

Employment Opportunity - Administrative Assistant (Office-Based, NOT Hybrid or Remote)

About the Role and You

We’re looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic Admin Assistant to help our business serve more customers more efficiently. A pleasant and helpful nature is more important to us than formal qualifications, although you ideally have both. You do need to enjoy talking to people and trying to make their day better by solving their problems or frustrations, so an engaging, positive, and cheerful disposition is a major 'plus’.

The role is to support the Qualification development team; a friendly, dedicated, and professional group of good people.

Key Requirements:

• Flexible 'can do’ cooperative attitude.

• Cheerful, positive, and helpful, and easily get on with others.

• Prepared to 'muck in’ to help out with stuff that’s not listed.

• Organised and proactive. You meet deadlines.

• Strong interpersonal skills, great team worker, and can maintain confidentiality.

• Good communicator, both verbally and in writing, and have great attention to detail.

• Excellent computer skills - minimum Microsoft Office, social media platforms, and web browsers.

• Enjoys writing content with a strong grasp and a high standard of written English.

Hours: 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday, with a half-hour (unpaid) lunch break.

Location: Manvers, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Term: Permanent (subject to passing 6-month probationary period)

Start: Immediate (subject to satisfactory references)

Salary- Minimum Wage

About Focus Awards

We’re an Awarding Organisation (AO), regulated by Ofqual, the UK Government’s qualification watchdog. We create and provide qualifications to training companies and education providers across a range of business and employment sectors.

Successful applicants who become a fully contributing member of the team can look forward to professional development opportunities. If you’re ambitious, hard-working, and committed to improvement, you could be looking at a real career path here…