GLL is looking for an administrator (Senior Library Assistant) to join the Greenwich Library Admin Team, based in Middlegate House, working 27 hours a week. There's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is an administration job, supporting all the libraries across the Royal Borough of Greenwich. You will work one Saturday morning every 4 weeks.
The aim of the administrator role is to ensure the library service is delivered every day by co-ordinating the rotas of all the libraries in partnership working with the local managers and communicating with all staff across Greenwich. You will also providing other admin support for all the libraries, in order for them to offer a professional and customer focused service every day. No day is the same!
What you’ll do:
Maintain the timetables ensuring staff are allocated to all libraries to ensure all services open to scheduled hours.
Plan weekly rotas in advance
Process Annual Leave requested
Communicate to staff across the Borough
Find cover for sickness/ emergency leave as required daily
Record and report sickness/ Collect supporting paperwork
Manage Purchase Orders, paying Invoices to our suppliers and raising invoices
Ordering items, such as stationery and activity materials, for all libraries
Manage an admin email in box and answer staff questions
Provide other specialist and support areas of the service as required.
As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.
What you need:
Strong administration Skills
A really focus on customer service
Great communication and interpersonal skills.
Be able to build working relationships with all colleagues, across all libraries
A can do attitude
Good understanding of IT packages such as Microsoft Office especially Excel
Excellent time management
Ability to work under pressure
Be able to use your own initiative
A good team player
As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:
A salary of £26,993.39 per annum (Based on 36 hours a week pro rata)
A values driven organisation
Learning & development to support career development
Good pension schemes
Discounted gym membership for you and your partner
A permanent position of 27 hours a week
Working one Saturday morning in four (no Sundays)
The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say on how we are run plus associated events
Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
Career Pathways, professional development is just the start. To ensure your stay on top of your game we provide training with practical and theory elements too
Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
25% off Red Letter Days
25% off Buy a Gift
20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products
Ride to work scheme
Free eye tests and discounted glasses
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.