Business Support Officer 2 jobs – Licensing

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Kirklees
Economy & Infrastructure
Environment
Business Support
37
2
Based at Flint Street, Huddersfield/Currently working from home but may be required to work across other sites.
Permanent
Grade 6

£24,294- £25,979

The Licensing Team is responsible for licensing of the taxi services in Kirklees and processing all other types of licensing applications received via post and electronically. We also complete the finance work created by licensing applications. This is a customer focused environment. The team is a very busy and demand led service and the Business Support Officer role is vital as it is the first point of access to the service for customers, and to ensure delivery of office functions.

Within the Licensing Team you will be required to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the service, which can mean travelling to other offices/buildings. You will assist the wider team in ensuring the office functions are delivered in a timely and accurate manner.

Requirements for this job:

  • Provide a high quality professional, technical and administrative, customer focused service with the ability to multi-task in a busy, variable and frontline environment at the Council’s Customer Service Centres
  • Appropriately deal with a variety of existing and potential customer information, including personal information relating to convictions and offences, in a sensitive and confidential manner
  • Comply with required dress code ensuring that uniforms, badges provided are worn, enabling easy identification by users of the service
  • Carry out a range of complex and technical duties and other computer based information systems
  • Ensure all office equipment is used proficiently and inventories of equipment and stock are maintained and supplies replenished
  • Process payments and follow Kirklees Council procedures with regards to accounting and finance
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues in the team to ensure effective delivery of high quality technical and administrative support
  • Ability to remain calm, understanding, responsive and supportive whilst facing difficult customers
  • Ability to embrace change and proactively promote and support the Licensing Department’s procedures and responsibilities with regards to public protection

In addition it is essential that you have good IT skills and that you are familiar with a variety of computer packages in particular Microsoft Office and that you are able to demonstrate business and administration skills to NVQ Level 3.

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Roopa Chopra is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
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06 December 2020, 11:55 PM

Important Information

This vacancy is closed to applications.