Business Support Officer

Salary – £24,000 pa, Homebased, UK

Fixed Term Contract (12months)

Empowering Education International Ltd (EEI), a division of Tribal, partners with governments and education institutions around the world who need help to deliver on their strategic ambitions to improve the quality and impact of education. EEI have got a longstanding record for delivering education improvement activities and delivering DFE (dept for Education) contracts.

The role

The Business Support Officer will facilitate the efficient functioning of education service contracts and projects. The post-holder will support the successful delivery of contracts, undertaking administrative tasks in line with the needs of specific contracts.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide administration for project finances
• Administrate the associate commissioning process, update and issue contracts and project letters to associates and other suppliers and keep the tracker up to date.
• Administrate and update databases, workflows, trackers every day.
• Enter data and information into databases and ensure confidentiality is maintained.
• Support the management and utilisation of project databases, by project team members and other relevant stakeholders, through verbal and written training and guidance.
• Proofread and edit project documentation.
• Coordinate the planning of meetings, take minutes as requested and prepare action points.

The Person

• Experience of working in a fast-paced administrative role
• Experience in liaising with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven excellent organisational and planning skills
• Strong competence in Office 365 (Excel, Word etc)
• Experience of working to tight deadlines
• Experience of working with sensitive data within a confidential environment
• Outstanding attention to detail, accuracy, and skills in scrutiny of own and others’ work

What can EEI offer me?

As part of our team, you will not only have complete access to learning resources for continuous upskilling, but you will also enjoy competitive salaries, a flexible work environment, and a comprehensive benefits package.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector. To safeguard this we are signatories to Tech Talent Charter to better enable us to be a responsible business.

Note to all applicants – Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.