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£25,101 per annum + £750 Home Working Allowance per annum + £4,184 London weighting per annum- (if eligible)
Full-time
Contract (9-month fixed-term contract)
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Job description
Senior Administration Officer - FTC
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Senior Administration Officer - ftc - 9 Months
Home-based – Working Remotely- London & South East
£25,101 per annum + £750 Home Working Allowance per annum + £4,184 London weighting per annum- (if eligible)
Salary will be pro-rated based on a 9-month fixed-term contract
35 hours | Monday –Friday | Fixed Term Contract - (9 Months)
Why Join TACT?
- Top 5 UK Charity to Work For (2024)
- 97% proud to work at TACT | 92% love working here
- Not-for-profit – every surplus reinvested into children, carers & staff
- Children’s voices shape every decision, system, and improvement we make at TACT.
- Flexible homeworking
- Trauma-informed, values-led organisation
Benefits
- 31 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (pro rata as ftc)
- 45p per mile business mileage
- Stakeholder Pension (salary sacrifice)
- Family-friendly & flexible working policies
- Volunteer days
Wellbeing & Non-Salary Benefits
- Homeworking IT bundle + home office loan
- Help@Hand EAP (24/7 GP, CBT, physio, mental health support)
- Over 35 hours a year of access to on line wellbeing events and team wellbeing days
- Menopause Policy + free clinician appointments
- Regular team wellbeing & connection events
Training & Career Development
- Excellent learning & development programme
- Opportunity to grow therapeutic & trauma-informed practice
- Supportive leadership and clear career progression pathways
- Involvement in innovative projects (e.g. TACT Connect, Health, Education)
The Role
You’ll work closely with foster carers and social work colleagues to deliver high-quality, trauma-informed support and improve outcomes for children and young people.
The Senior Admin Officer will be responsible for general administrative functions within the London & South East region and will report to the Administrative Manager. In some instances, the Senior Admin Officer may be required to deputise for the Admin Manager in the post holder’s absence in relation to day to day matters.
The Senior Admin Officer will specialise in a particular area (s), such as Panels, statutory paperwork, minute-taking, training, and maintaining the in-house database (Charms). As a charity we are commited to ensuring that our resources are directed toward supporting our children. For this reason, we can only consider applicants who live within the required geographical areas listed above, as supporting roles outside these areas would incur additional costs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing an administration service to the London & South-East region to help meet the service objectives of increased foster carer recruitment
- Organise and prepare all panel papers for approvals and reviews.
- Minute panels and prepare ADM paperwork
- Timely and accurate record keeping on Charms (in house system).
- Responding to telephone calls and allocating these to staff as appropriate. When necessary, take messages for staff members and ensure that these are passed on.
- Communicating professionally with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues, carers, and third-party agencies to establish professional working relationships which focus on the best outcomes for the children and young people in our care.
- Working flexibly within the team and autonomously as needed to manage your time and duties.
What You’ll Need
- GCSE in English & Maths or equivalent
- Experience of working in a busy administrative setting in a social care-related field.
- Ability to obtain, extract and analyse information from various systems.
- Confidence in using all Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook & OneDrive.
- Experience of using a software system to record, retrieve and maintain records
- Excellent communication skills to suit a broad range of professional relationships
- The ability to work to deadlines, with accuracy and flexibility, sometimes dealing with conflicting priorities
- Familiarity with handling confidential and sensitive information in line with relevant regulations and legislative requirements
- A tendency to think creatively, exhibit resourcefulness, work with enthusiasm, compassion, and commitment
- Evidence of an understanding and commitment to equality, diversity, and anti-discriminatory practices
- Enhanced DBS / PVG (processed by TACT)
Travel
- Home-based role
- Required to attend monthly face-to-face meetings and other occasional meetings in London and surrounding counties
- Additional travel for training, team and carer events
Key Dates
- Closing Date: Monday, 25th May 2026 (midnight)
- Interviews: Thursday, 4th June 2026 (Microsoft Teams)
Safeguarding Commitment
Safeguarding is everyone’s business, and TACT believes that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications, and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies.
Apply early - we may close the role if we receive a high volume of applications.
Organisation
Posted on: 12 May 2026
Closing date: 22 May 2026 at 23:30
Job ref: 311073CHJ
Tags: Youth / Children
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Look Ahead Care Support and Housing
Job description
Senior Administrator / Personal Assistant
We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Senior Administrator to join our Central Service team located at our head office in Islington.
£26,936.00- £35,000.00 per annum, working 35 hours per week.
Want to feel valued? You'll feel at home here.
Our benefits include:
- Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
- Free DBS
- Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
- Fully paid induction programme and further training
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
To provide an exceptional standard of organisational, administrative and project support to Directors within the Commercial & Growth and Operations Directorates, enabling them to operate effectively and efficiently.
What you'll do:
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead .
- Provide high-quality support to Directors, ensuring the smooth and effective day-to-day running.
- Proactively manage multiple complex diaries, correspondence and priorities, exercising sound judgement on when to support, challenge or hold the line as appropriate.
- Coordinate and provide full administrative support for Directorates and corporate meetings, including the Performance Review meetings, providing end-to-end support, including scheduling, agenda management, paper collation, accurate note-taking, and follow-up of agreed actions and outcomes, reviewing and preparation of papers.
About you:
- An experienced and confident, senior level administrator/personal assistant, with enthusiasm to deliver a high quality and effective service
- Able to immerse yourself within the business, understanding the work of the directorate and the organisational structures and personalities in place.
- Able to work with gravitas, courage and be calm under pressure, building credibility and respect with internal and external stakeholders.
What you'll bring:
Essential:
- Experience in a similar role.
- A qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Business Administration would be beneficial but not essential.
Desirable:
- Experience supporting Directors or senior leaders in a complex or regulated organisation.
- Experience of supporting formal governance or performance review forums, including minute-taking and action tracking.
- Experience of working in housing, social care, health, or a similar public-facing or not-for-profit sector.
About us
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year.
Refreshed on: 07 May 2026
Closing date: 21 May 2026 at 16:00
Job ref: REQ006833
Tags: Administration
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Islington (Hybrid)
£26936.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Exclusive discounts and cashback
Full-time
Permanent
Job description
We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Senior Administrator to join our Central Service team located at our head office in Islington.
£26,936.00- £35,000.00 per annum, working 35 hours per week.
Our benefits include:
Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
Free DBS
Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
Fully paid induction programme and further training
ILM courses and Apprenticeship Programmes
Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loans
Employee Assistance Programme for 24-7 confidential support
Online wellbeing resources
A generous pension - 8% matched pension (via salary exchange)
Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
To provide an exceptional standard of organisational, administrative and project support to Directors within the Commercial & Growth and Operations Directorates, enabling them to operate effectively and efficiently. The role will implement and maintain robust, seamless administration systems and processes across the Directorates, ensuring consistency, accuracy and high professional standards.
The postholder will act as an ambassador for the Directors and the organisation at all times, supporting complex and competing workloads with confidence, discretion and foresight, and consistently staying one step ahead of what is required.
What you'll do:
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead .
Provide high-quality support to Directors, ensuring the smooth and effective day-to-day running.
Proactively manage multiple complex diaries, correspondence and priorities, exercising sound judgement on when to support, challenge or hold the line as appropriate.
Coordinate and provide full administrative support for Directorates and corporate meetings, including the Performance Review meetings, providing end-to-end support, including scheduling, agenda management, paper collation, accurate note-taking, and follow-up of agreed actions and outcomes, reviewing and preparation of papers.
Lead on the organisation of business meetings, events, site visits, including venues, virtual meetings, agendas, papers, travel arrangements, room bookings, minute-taking and action tracking.
Support the timely production of high-quality documentation, including reports, presentations and briefing papers, maintaining excellent attention to detail, accuracy, branding and presentation standards.
Build and maintain strong professional relationships with colleagues across the organisation, acting as a key point of contact and trusted liaison for the Directors.
Work closely with other Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants to share best practice, provide mutual cover and ensure seamless support at Directorate and organisational level.
Assist with budget management activities where required, processing invoices and expenses in line with organisational procedures.
Handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion at all times.
Undertake additional duties or projects in the Directors.
About you:
An experienced and confident, senior level administrator/personal assistant, with enthusiasm to deliver a high quality and effective service
Able to immerse yourself within the business, understanding the work of the directorate and the organisational structures and personalities in place.
Able to work with gravitas, courage and be calm under pressure, building credibility and respect with internal and external stakeholders.
Able to communicate with a warm, inclusive and open manner in order to proactively promote positive 'one team' working across the wider business.
Extremely organised, with highly attuned planning and problem-solving skills, and experience in operating in a busy environment with competing demands.
Able to exercise sound judgement and maintain discretion and confidentiality at all times.
Resilient and flexible when working to tight deadlines, being able to prioritise work effectively and manage expectations.
Experienced in all elements of meeting administration - collating and issuing papers for meetings/boards - ensuring that papers are received in the appropriate format and to deadlines from colleagues across the business, taking accurate minutes and following up on action points.
What you'll bring:
Essential:
Experience in a similar role.
A qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Business Administration would be beneficial but not essential.
A high level of IT skills, and experience in using the full suite of Microsoft Office software (including but not limited to: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams).
Excellent attention to detail, and ability to present documents professionally and with style (this means having a keen eye for branding, grammar and layout).
A passion for what we do at Look Ahead - and an experience of delivering great customer service.
Desirable:
Experience supporting Directors or senior leaders in a complex or regulated organisation.
Experience of supporting formal governance or performance review forums, including minute-taking and action tracking.
Experience of working in housing, social care, health, or a similar public-facing or not-for-profit sector.
Confidence working with senior stakeholders and balancing competing priorities.
Organisation
Posted on: 01 May 2026
Closing date: 29 May 2026 at 16:29
Job ref: REQ006860
Tags: Administration
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