East Midland Shared Services
Casual Business Support Officer
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Contract Type: Casual
Working Hours: Casual
Worker Type: Office Based
Salary: £13.90 per hour
Location: Various locations in the city
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great Annual Leave enhancement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
- You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The Office Opps Team are looking for people to join our pool of casual Business Support staff to work on full time assignments across the authority. We can offer work in a range of clerical, administrative, data and business support roles. Assignments are council wide, and applicants must be willing to work at any location within the city to meet the requirements of their assignment.
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Office Opps Essential Requirements:
- Experience of providing efficient and effective administrative/business support
- Good working knowledge and experience of using a range of office processes, procedures and systems
- Extensive experience of using the MS Office suite, and ability to use in house IT systems
- Experience of planning and organising own workload and be able to work flexibly in a pressured environment
- Ability to work accurately, and produce quality documents from standard formats/maintain accurate records using a range of IT applications
- Ability to use initiative to identify and actively resolve problems, knowing when to escalate these
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a range of people at all levels in a range of formats
- Good understanding of customer service, with the ability to deal effectively with conflict/difficult situations as they arise
For informal enquiries please Email: officeoppsteam@nottinghamcity.gov.uk with your name and telephone number.
For more information, please view the Job Description and Person Specification. You can find the job description for this post here.
Closing Date: 31/08/2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council on a casual basis. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career.
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference. We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
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