The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
IT Office Assistant Coordinator
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Guide Dogs - Be Part of Something Life‑Changing
Come and join us as a proactive and purpose-led Information Services Office Assistant Coordinator and be part of something life-changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.
As an IS Office Assistant Coordinator at Guide Dogs, you’ll help ensure the smooth running of IT operations by assisting the Coordinator to deliver efficient administrative and coordination support. You'll play an important role in enabling colleagues across the organisation to access the technology, products, and services they need to work effectively. The IS Office Assistant Coordinator will be efficient in administration and coordination, ensuring activities are delivered accurately, efficiently, and in line with agreed processes and standards. Our IS Office Assistant Coordinator plays a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support IT purchasing, including asset ordering, allocation, and tracking, as well as any administration relevant to technology assets.
- Prepare IS hardware for shipping and courier transport and process returned hardware, which includes manual handling requirements.
- Provide seamless departmental administrative support across internal IT teams for a variety of project, routine, and non-routine operational meetings.
- Support the general office day-to-day operations within the Service Delivery Team.
- Provide administrative assistance to the IS Office Coordinator as they support the audit and assurance activity of the IT directorate.
- Maintain the IT assets register, ensuring it is accurate and up to date.
You
You’ll have a proactive and organised approach to coordination and administration. You’ll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a dedicated focus on enabling colleagues through effective IT operations, whilst being committed to accuracy, efficiency, and excellent customer service. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.
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Skills and Competencies
- GCSE or equivalent in Maths and English.
- Experience in an administrative or coordinator role.
- Experience managing multiple tasks and priorities in an organised manner within a busy environment.
- This role involves manual handling, including lifting, carrying, and moving equipment as well as visual inspection of purchased or returned assets. Reasonable adjustments will be considered where required.
- Computer literate with proficient Microsoft Office skills, including the ability to use Excel formulas.
- Experience maintaining accurate records and databases.
- Experience dealing with customers, colleagues, or suppliers.
- Awareness of the importance of compliance and data protection.
- Basic knowledge of technology and information services.
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave pro-rata
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on a wide variety of flexible benefits
- The option to buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cash-back scheme
- Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
- And lots more!
For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
How to Apply
When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page. Please note - If you are successful, you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier. We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.
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If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk.
Safer Recruitment
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for and a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.
At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.
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