Temporary Secretary Hamilton   £20,731 - £22,702

Strathclyde Fire and Rescue are looking to recruit a Secretary to support two Assistant Chief Officers (temporary contract). This is an opportunity for an efficient and highly organised individual with excellent administrative and secretarial skills to work at a senior level.

Your key tasks will include providing full secretarial and administrative support to two extremely busy Assistant Chief Officers, organising their diaries and workloads to ensure optimal performance. Typing, maintaining paper and electronic filing systems and responsibility for the day to day distribution of mail and other duties as required. A large part of the job will be organizing meetings and taking minutes at those meetings, therefore some travel to other Fire and Rescue Services within Scotland may be required. The ability to work under pressure is essential and the candidate will be required to carry out the duties of the post with the utmost discretion, confidentiality and diplomacy. You will be assisted in the post by a Senior Clerical Assistant for whom you have supervisory responsibility therefore it is essential that you have supervisory experience.

It is essential that you are able to communicate with senior officers, have good word processing/audio typing skills, shorthand is desirable although not essential. Experience of using MS Office packages such as Excel, Powerpoint is required. Due to the impending restructuring of the Fire Service in Scotland, this post will be temporary until 31st December 2012. Closing date: midnight Sunday 26 February 2012
Strathclyde Fire & Rescue is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. In addition we are committed to the Double Tick Initiative and offer a guaranteed interview to any applicant who considers him / herself to be disabled and who meets the minimum requirements for the post. If you would like to apply in a different format or language, please phone Kirsty McLachlan on 01698 402625 or e-mail kirsty.mclachlan@strathclydefire.org

Job Reference:   SFR000555

Closing Date:     26-Feb-2012

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