Business Support Coordinator

East Midlands Shared Services.com

27k - 28k GBP/year

Office

Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Full Time

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £26,832 - £28,146 per annum

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 31st October 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

Do you have exceptional organisational and planning skills? Are you a great communicator and have excellent customer service skills? Can you use your own initiative to find solutions to achieve successful results?

If so, this exciting opportunity may be for you…

The role of a Business Support Co-ordinator is required to co-ordinate a range of tasks, including supporting with a comprehensive recruitment service for the Environment and Transport department.

About The Role

You will support the Recruitment Co-ordinator in processing all departmental vacancies, ensuring vacancy control is followed using relevant authorisation forms, including pro-forma and advert templates. You will need to be confident in interrogating and challenging managers and chasing relevant information in a fast pace, changing environment. You will be a quick thinker, finding quick solutions to recruitment issues.

You will liaise with a range of customers including candidates, recruiting managers - including senior managers, Human Resources Colleagues and various organisations.

You will assist with the development of marketing/promotional materials and help to organise and attend career events.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

An NVQ 2 (or equivalent) or Qualification in appropriate subject & have a good standard of education including English and Mathematics at GCSE Grade 9-4 (or equivalent).

Or

Demonstrable experience identified within the section below:

Experience of managing complex processes including embedding and carrying out business processes to support service delivery
Experience of communicating with a range of audiences at all levels and be able to develop working relationships with managers, colleagues and customers and demonstrate working within a team.
Have knowledge of Business Support Systems including Microsoft, data bases and any personnel systems such as Fusion, bespoke systems.
Excellent verbal and written communications and must have accuracy, attention to detail and the ability to work to tight timescales under pressure
Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work with a willingness to develop and learn
Able to respond confidently to customers and colleagues with understanding and confidentiality whilst maintaining an objective and professional stance.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Julie Bolton

Office Manager

0116 3058140

Julie.Bolton@Leics.Gov.Uk

Or

Savannah Wilson

Recruitment Co-Ordinator

0116 3051373

Savannah.Wilson@Leics.Gov.Uk

How To Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words. Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following: