Senior Project Administrator

Job Title: Senior Project Administrator

Location: Bristol

Salary: £29,864-£32,816 per year

Job Type: The role of Project Administrator is a permanent position. We will consider applications for the role on a full or part-time basis, with a minimum of 22.5 hours per week.

The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) is a Bristol-based national charity that supports people and organisations across the UK to tackle the climate emergency and end the suffering caused by cold homes. We do this by sharing our knowledge, practical experience and policy insights.

The Role

The focus of this role is to ensure the smooth running of the Household Energy Services (HES) team by providing team-wide administrative support and taking responsibility for coordination of daily and weekly tasks, maintaining accurate and detailed records, whilst overseeing processes and procedures that ensure HES is compliant with GDPR and Health and Safety requirements. You will work across our fuel poverty and retrofit projects supporting project managers and key staff to ensure administrative tasks are completed to a high standard.

An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:

• Importing batches of client information into our client management system and ensuring uploads are working correctly. Addressing errors on our client database: merging data where it is held across multiple client records, deleting incorrect enquires and deleting duplicate client records.
• Make outbound calls to clients when required, such as booking home visits, and keeping client records up to date.
• Support HES team annual leave process, checking managers have approved internal team requests and updating allocations against projects on the staff planner.
• Manage and keep track of HES subscriptions to services or packages and coordinate payments and purchase orders with project managers. Make sure any details and logins are GDPR compliant.
• Responsibility for HES complaints handling procedure – providing guidance to managers handling complaints to ensure adherence to policy and tracking and recording responses.
• Support senior HES managers with recruitment work; liaising with appropriate teams within CSE in producing HES recruitment materials; onboarding new HES starters including providing thorough team specific information for line managers.
• Support senior HES managers with probations and interim review meetings; tracking progress towards probations. Tracking progress towards appraisal SMART objectives with support from the line manager.
• Be a GDPR champion for the HES team. Working with CSE’s GDPR officer and project managers to ensure procedures are compliant.
• Take a proactive approach to problem solving. Influence and contribute to improving HES systems and processes.
• Supervise and mentor the HES Project Administrator, support their learning and taking ownership for ensuring consistency of HES admin provision.

Essential attributes for this role include:

• Experience of providing administrative support to colleagues and external customer/partners.
• Highly skilled in use of MS Office applications including Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Ability to learn information and communicate it to others.
• Ability to use initiative, problem solve and manage priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to new software solutions.

Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.

CSE offer a range of benefits including, subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash plan, retail discounts and discounted breakdown cover and many more.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 5 November by 5pm

Interviews are expected to take place Tuesday 12 and Thursday 14 November, though this is subject to change.

If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

Please click on the APPLY button to complete the first stage of the application process by sending your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Project Support, Project Administrator, Project Worker, Business Support Supervisor, Team Manager, Advisor, Helpline Advisor, Customer Service Advisor, Customer Service, Admin, Administrator, Complaints Officer, Customer Support, Coordinator, Receptionist, Secretary, Business Administrator, Support Administrator, Business Support, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, PA, Office Assistant, Office Coordinator, Office Manager, Clerk, Business Administrator, Finance Administrator, Finance Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Learning and Development Administrator will also be considered for this role.