Senior Business Officer

This role has direct responsibility for overseeing the collation of payments, financial recording, budget monitoring and banking.

The successful applicant would be required to:-

• Provide management oversight and quality assurance of all business and financial support services across Early Years.



• To co-ordinate and deploy staff to meet the needs and demands of the service.



• Be able to implement, monitor, review systems and processes that support effective operations.



• To be responsible for ensuring the HR functions are managed effectively within corporate guidance and process.


So why join us?

In Blackburn with Darwen we have realised the world of work as we used to see it, in its more traditional way pre-pandemic has moved on and we want to keep pace.

It's not about what we want and expect from you as an employee, but rather what can we, as an organisation do to support you to be the best you can be in your role for our borough's residents.

What we offer You!

Trust; We know that trust is built with consistency, we are working really hard to ensure full consistency across all service areas.
We know our staff work incredibly hard, and at times above and beyond for their teams and colleagues. For this we place much trust in our staff with flexible and agile working.

Respect; We are really proud of the culture we have in BWD in that no matter who you are we will always listen to ideas and welcome respectful challenge.
We have no blame culture but rather than that of a well-supported learning culture.

Ambition; We want all our employees to be able to progress and have ambition in their role. We want to develop and progress our own workforce and allow you fair and equal career pathways and progression opportunities.

Collaboration; We have a huge variety of teams at the council with different skills and experience. By being interconnected we can ensure our work is the best it can be, utilising these resources spread across the organisation.

Kindness; We firmly believe that kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle from time to time. This is equally true for some of our workforces that's why we have a well-embedded wellbeing offer.

Other benefits:-
Travel / small Borough.
Holidays.

We are looking to recruit a part time Senior Business Support Officer, the role is 18.5 hours a week, working over 2.5 days on a Monday and Tuesday 9-5 pm and Wednesday am.

We are looking for an experienced person, who is self-motivated and can demonstrate they have the skills to manage and motivate a team of Administrators, Cooks and Centre Assistants.

Experience of managing people would be beneficial.

This is a busy role with responsibilities to manage the day to day running of the Family Hubs and Children Centre sites and working across our network of 8 sites.

We are looking for someone that has a friendly and approachable manner, with the ability to multi-task and take on challenges as they arise. We require this individual to have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. They need to be able to work as a team member and also independently to complete tasks within a timely manner.

We require someone who has excellent I.T. skills and experience of working with a broad range of microsoft packages.