Administrator
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Administrator
- Job Location: Quayside House
- Salary: £26,403 - £27,694 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 28/11/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 9165
- This post is not open to job share
About the Team and Role
Do you love challenges? Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment? Appreciate a role with variety? Thrive on using your initiative and problem-solving skills? Would you love the opportunity to shape a range of administrative processes to make them as efficient as can be?
Then look no further, this is the job for you. Working for both the Finance & Compliance and Health and Safety Teams you will make a real impact on the support service we provide to the Fire and Rescue Service, enabling us to make Gloucestershire a safe place to live, work and visit.
You will help make a difference by taking responsibility for delivering an effective and efficient administration service covering a variety of tasks from drafting and issuing agendas, taking minutes, assigning actions and updating trackers. To using spreadsheets and databases to ensure information and data is accurately recorded frequently cross checking between data sources and offering resolutions to issues.
About You
To be successful you will have strong IT skills, be curious, have the ability to thrive in a busy and fluid working environment, show excellent organisational skills to allow you to prioritise workloads across two teams, pride yourself on attention to detail and have the ability to work without direct supervision. We also need your proactive nature to foster rapport and help build working relationships with our stakeholders.
About us
Hybrid working arrangements are available giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both office and remote working.
Joining us could mean access to these great benefits:
Flexible and agile working opportunities
25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
Career development and qualification opportunities
Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
An in-house Occupational Health service
Employee discount scheme
Cycle to Work scheme (Eligibility criteria and T&Cs apply)
Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (Eligibility criteria and T&Cs apply)
Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
How to apply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Becky.wrightson@glosfire.gov.uk
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interviews to be held Tuesday 9th December 2025.
Additional Information
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The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
This Position is subject to a standard DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.