At Barnardo's, we believe that children and young people should have opportunities to have their voices heard and be taken seriously in decisions that affect them, and that this leads to better decision-making and improved services.

In 2021, we launched a brand new Voice and Influence Strategic Plan across our charity, which lays out our ambition for putting the voices and lived experiences of children and young people are at the heart of Barnardo's, and the ways these inform how we work and the decisions we make in every part of the charity.

The implementation of this new Strategic Plan is being led by our Voice and Influence (V&I) Team, who are now looking for a permanent Business Support Officer to provide efficient and effective administrative and business support, in order to facilitate successful delivery of the Plan.

To be successful in this role, we expect the postholder to have:

• Substantial experience of providing administrative/programme/project support to a team of colleagues.
• Substantial experience of using Office 365, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint/OneDrive, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and Zoom.
• Experience of operating and managing complex financial systems including petty cash, budget/financial monitoring, audit and control.
• Excellent team working skills with the ability to work in partnership, collaboratively and co-operatively with staff at all levels of the charity
• Ability to multi-task and manage workload appropriately, demonstrating efficiency, reliability and the ability to prioritise/re-prioritise.

Desirably, shortlisted candidates will also have experience of:

• Working remotely in administrative/business support role.
• Working in a social care or youth work environment, including of working/dealing directly with children, young people and/or families.

This role will be home-based, but with access to local collaboration hubs when/where needed, in line with our new Work From Anywhere framework, and will be required to work flexibly to accommodate the role requirements.

The working hours for this role are open to negotiation, but we do require a minimum of 29 hours per week in order to fully accommodate the role requirements.

It would be beneficial for the postholder to live within commuting distance of London or Bristol (the base locations of the V&I senior managers to whom this post is accountable), though this will not form part of the shortlisting and assessment processes for the post.

If you require more information about this role, please contact Mezz Lewis, Assistant Director Voice & Influence: mezz.lewis@barnardos.org.uk 

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described, with a particular focus on the core expectations laid out above. 

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

 

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

 

Our basis and values

 

Documents

• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Updated Version July 2021.pdf (101.44 KB)
• VI Team Chart - January 2022.pdf (135.30 KB)
• FINAL JD-PS VI Business Support Officer.pdf (268.96 KB)