Business Support Officer Southwark£24/hr Start date: 6/01/2025 Full Time: Mon - Fri 36/hrs a week Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Business Support Officer in the Southwark area. 3 - 6 months contract role with the Childrens Services. PURPOSE OF THE JOB To provide efficient, effective, and professional operational day to day support to the Director of Integrated Commissioning. Responsibilities 1. To provide some Personal Assistant support to the Director of Integrated Commissioning, providing high level professional support and assistance ensuring the Director's needs are effectively met and managed. 2. To ensure that complex schedules and diaries are maintained accurately, making informed judgements based on understanding competing demands of the services, and prioritising appointments appropriately. 3. To monitor and filter incoming enquiries and emails, using judgment to respond or redirect according to nature, sensitivity and urgency. 4. To arrange meetings including the co-ordination of diaries, room bookings, the preparation and circulation of agendas and taking minutes as required. 5. To plan, organise and coordinate internal and external meetings, functions and events on behalf of the Director or their teams. Experience: Experience of managing and prioritising a very busy inbox, diary and workload at a senior level and running an effective bring forward system Extensive experience of supporting at senior management level within local authorities Experience of dealing with business, personal and complex issues quickly and effectively in order to provide support to the Director. Aptitudes, Skills&Competencies: High levels of personal skills including confidentiality, tact, diplomacy empathy and sensitivity, and an awareness of the environment the role is operating within Highly self-motivated, requiring little instruction and supervision and an ability to act on initiative Ability to quickly understand complex instructions and processes and implement them effectively