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Role: Administrative Officer

Salary: £21,029 per annum (pro-rata)

Location: Remote but local to Bury, Lancs.

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part-time, 30 hours per week. Monday to Friday. 6 hours a day 10am to 4pm (can be flexible)

Benefits: 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, professional qualifications, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands and Blue Light card eligibility.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role.

Our service Action for Children Social Opportunities provides support to children and young people with additional needs. This includes support to access community-based activities in small groups our community-based venues are in Bury at Elton Centre, Sunnybank Centre (during Term Time) and Bury Athletics Club (during School Holidays).

We are looking for an Administrative Officer to support this service.

How you'll help to create brighter futures.

• Providing a high-quality range of administrative services across the departments.


• Being effective, intuitive, flexible and able to work to deadlines.


• Having a willingness to learn with strong attention to detail and adhere to best practises.


• Providing excellent customer service and being a good communicator.


• Having a sensitive approach to the work that we undertake.


• Working as a team but with the ability to work on your own initiative.

Let's talk about you.

• Experience of a similar administrative role with excellent communication skills is essential.


• Strong IT Skills and experience of using various IT systems including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.


• To be a confident communicator and able to converse with senior professionals from a variety of backgrounds.


• The ability to take minutes.


• Good prioritisation and time management ensuring deadlines are met, whilst maintaining the ability to handle sensitive data.


• To be proactive with a ‘can-do' attitude.

For any recruitment enquiries please contact Sarah Manderfield by email sarah.manderfield@actionforchildren.org.uk

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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