The starting salary for this position is £32,512 per annum, working 36 hours per week. This is a 12-month fixed term contract/secondment opportunity.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Surrey Fire and Rescue Service as a specialist Administrator providing support to the Business and Community safety teams in our Prevention and Protection work. The team are based at Woodhatch Place, Reigate but we promote a hybrid approach to working; although it is essential to have the flexibility to work from various locations across Surrey as required.
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About the Team
We are a small team working with a variety of workstreams. The team carries out statutory and non-statutory duties, in relation to technical, regulatory protection and prevention activities within the Fire Safety arena. You will be responsible for providing a wide range of support to Protection and Prevention Managers, Fire Safety Teams, Partnership Officers, Safeguarding teams, Fire Investigators, Risk Intelligence, and Children and Young People teams.
About the Role
The Role of a Community Resilience Support Administrator is one that requires attention to detail, organisation and a keenness for problem solving. There is a high degree of working with legislative, official, and sensitive material, such as quality assurance of risk information, incident reporting, preparation of Coroners reports and fire safety enforcement and prosecution documentation.
You will utilise in-house Fire Safety training to process consultation correspondence relating to building regulations, licensing applications, sports ground certificates and risk information; all of which are time-sensitive activities. This may include the interpretation of plan drawings, reading schedules relating to building work, tracking fire safety inspection and audit information and the accurate recording and reporting of electronic statistics within our databases. Often you will need to liaise with external partners and stakeholders, such as Local Authorities and Businesses, Fire and Rescue Services, National Fire Chiefs Council, and The Institute of Fire Engineers.
You will also be critical to the organisation of professional development events for our fire safety regulators. This involves coordinating and facilitating quarterly events, including the booking of external speakers and venues, to supply and produce materials and resources, and arrange catering for a large group of delegates.
Wider administrative duties include the production and distribution of internally led educational campaigns and courses, financial resilience for purchasing, maintaining accurate record keeping, information gathering for investigations and freedom of information requests, generating reports, formatting correspondence and minute taking.
Opportunities for informal fire safety training will be offered subject to course dates.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following essential criteria:
- Experience of working in a busy and demanding team environment, supporting both statutory and non-statutory duties
- The ability to provide high quality administrative work with close attention to detail in relation to letter checking and formal documentation and to deliver within prescribed timescales
- Work collaboratively with customers, staff, partner organisations, and other agencies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Competence to work with confidential and sensitive information
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 25/08/2024 with interviews to follow.
This post will be subject to Standard DBS disclosure checks.
Our Commitment
Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:
- The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
- The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form
Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.