Team Administrator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role provides high-quality administrative support to the Improvement Delivery Team, focusing on project and programme coordination and information management. The post holder will ensure effective delivery, tracking, and governance of programme activities, maintaining robust controls and supporting reporting processes. They will manage information flow across multiple workstreams to aid successful delivery of organisational priorities, and also provide administrative support to the senior team.
Essential criteria
- Good standard of secondary education including GCE/GCSE English and Maths (Grade C or above) or equivalent
- NVQ Level 3 Business Administration or equivalent level knowledge or experience
- Demonstrates continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Project related personal development
- Experience of providing administrative support to a team
- Experience providing support to a busy project team with particular focus on data analysis and report writing
- Experience in working with spread sheets and databases
- Experience of autonomous, unsupervised administrative work in a busy office environment
- Experience of taking minutes and re producing to accurate levels
- Experience of working within a PMO
- Experience of working within efficiency projects
- Experience of working on improvement programmes
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Excel word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own workload, often working to tight deadlines
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment, supporting multiple managers, projects and workstreams simultaneously
- Ability to assist the project managers in the development and preparation of the overall project plans, plan key workstreams in relation to the project
- Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision
- Ability to use Microsoft 365 applications including Forms, SharePoint, PowerBI, Automate
- Experience of procurement or purchase ordering systems
- Professional Qualifications , Education and Training
- Good standard of secondary education including GCE/GCSE English and Maths (Grade C or above) or equivalent
- NVQ Level 3 Business Administration or equivalent level knowledge or experience
- Demonstrates continued professional development
- Project related personal development
- Experience of providing administrative support to a team
- Experience providing support to a busy project team with particular focus on data analysis and report writing
- Experience in working with spread sheets and databases
- Experience of autonomous, unsupervised administrative work in a busy office environment
- Experience of taking minutes and re producing to accurate levels
- Experience of working within a PMO
- Experience of working within efficiency projects
- Experience of working on improvement programmes
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Excel word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own workload, often working to tight deadlines
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment, supporting multiple managers, projects and workstreams simultaneously
- Ability to assist the project managers in the development and preparation of the overall project plans, plan key workstreams in relation to the project
- Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision
- Ability to use Microsoft 365 applications including Forms, SharePoint, PowerBI, Automate
- Experience of procurement or purchase ordering systems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The post holder will provide high-quality administrative support to the Improvement Delivery Team including support to the projects and programmes that this team covers. This includes comprehensive administrative, coordination, and information management support to ensure the effective delivery, tracking, and governance of programme activities. The role will focus on maintaining robust programme controls, supporting reporting processes, and ensuring accurate and timely information flow across multiple workstreams to support the successful delivery of organisational priorities. The post holder will also provide administrative support to the senior team.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship or a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this post.
Main duties of the job
Provide an effective administration service to the Improvement Delivery Team and associated projects and programmes
To work with relevant Programme Managers and Project Managers to manage and deliver key actions and tasks to keep projects on track
Work effectively across a matrix-managed environment, coordinating activities and information across multiple teams, services and workstreams where responsibility and delivery are shared
Escalate risks, issues and delays to appropriate project or programme leads
Performing routine and ad-hoc data analysis tasks and simple interpretat
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