About the role

We are looking for a More Positive Together Admin Support to join our Social Investment Team. This role is office based at 1st Call, Accrington Arndale Centre, Hyndburn, BB5 1EX

The role involves providing day to day administrative duties to support the Employability Mentors, alongside taking ownership and responsibility for ensuring all administrative tasks are undertaken in a timely manner and compliant with GDPR. The role also involves working closely with the Mentors to ensure robust monitoring and to support the Mentors with booking appointments, reminding participants of their appointments, attending group sign up sessions and assist with the sign-up process, amongst other responsibilities.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will possess strong IT skills and have a good knowledge of Microsoft Office and online research techniques, as well as experience of working with other colleagues and sharing good practice and knowledge. It is essential that they have a good understanding of the issues relating to vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the area and have a commitment to equal opportunities and diversity, and to challenging inequalities.

What you can expect from us

We offer a competitive salary (of £19,800 – per annum – pro rata), a generous annual leave entitlement of 31 days plus bank holidays and a pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 10%. Your wellbeing matters to us, and we offer a health cash plan where you can claim back money for health care, access to a GP service and an employee assistance programme, along with access to discounts for you and your family to enjoy outside of work.

We are passionate about our people, enabling their development, with learning opportunities to progress both personally and professionally. This includes access to volunteer in our local communities or learn a new skill outside of work.

We have created a flexible working environment, with Onward WorkSpace, which is our approach that focuses on work being the thing that we do that makes a difference to our customers, not the place we go.   You will be provided with all the ICT working equipment to enable you to undertake your role.

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to Covid-19 and the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.