Team Administrator
Salary £ 27,120
Canterbury, Kent
Vacancy listed 07/02/2025
Application deadline 25/02/2025
Details
The Team Administrator is a crucial role at the Diocese, as you will provide senior administrative support to enable us to embed and maintain the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Standards to the highest degree as well as adhering to all other Safeguarding Guidance and Policies, in order to serve our member schools, churches, and children and young people effectively. 
 
Reporting to the Diocesan Safeguarding Officer and working within the Safeguarding Team, you will provide administrative support for all areas of the team’s work, managing diaries, schedules and communications, along with taking accurate and comprehensive minutes or notes and following up on agreed actions. 
 
As Team Administrator, you will act as first point of contact for the team, ensuring that all processes run smoothly and competently, and that all enquiries are managed sensitively, efficiently and effectively. You will have direct liaison with the parishes, other key partners and stakeholders, including survivors of abuse. It is therefore essential that all tasks are approached with empathy and sensitivity, particularly when interacting with survivors of abuse.
Educated to a good standard, you should have first class administrative and customer service skills, along with substantial interpersonal, communication and organisational abilities. 

Experience of minute taking and excellent report writing abilities are essential, along with a background of working with and influencing a wide range of people at all levels of an organisation. Knowledge of basic database management is crucial, along with experience of providing Executive/Personal Assistant support to senior managers and Directors.

Previous experience of safeguarding, or of working in a safeguarding environment, would be desirable. It would also be beneficial but not essential for you to have an understanding of how the Church of England is structured along with an interest and empathy in the work and mission of the Canterbury Diocese.
  
 You will be required to travel across the Diocese for meetings, so the ability to travel to remote locations and work flexibly is a necessity.

The Diocese of Canterbury Diocesan Safeguarding Team provides professional safeguarding guidance in line with the Church of England’s Safeguarding Code of Practice, House of Bishop’s Guidance, and the Church of England National Safeguarding Standards. A key aspect of the team’s role is to provide compassionate support to survivors of abuse in addition to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults, ensuring their voices are heard and their experiences are respected.

Canterbury Diocese is the oldest diocese in England, stretching from Maidstone to Thanet, the Isle of Sheppey to the Romney Marsh. We have 350 miles of coastline with historic ports and seaside resorts, alongside rural communities, market towns and commuter-belt urban developments. Affluent areas often sit alongside pockets of major deprivation, offering an exciting and challenging mission context. 
At the heart of all we do is a vision of transformation for ourselves and our communities: no one can encounter God and remain unchanged. In the Diocese of Canterbury, we want to increasingly become a Christian community transformed through encounter with Christ, growing and overflowing to transform and bless the families, homes and communities we serve: Changed Lives, Changing Lives.
 
Closing date: 25 February 2025.
 

Benefits

• Permanent Contract
• 35 hours per week
• Generous employer pensions contribution.
• Central Canterbury location
• Birthday leave.
• Volunteering Leave
• Wellbeing day per annum

Notes

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION, HOW TO APPLY - PLEASE READ**

How to apply:
1) The full role profile including details of responsibilities, salary and person specification which will help you inform your application can be found in the documents below.

2) In the documents below you will find our application form which you need to download and complete in MS Word before you start to apply online. You will need to upload this when applying for the role.
CV's alone will not be accepted.

3) It is important that you do not begin any part of the the online application process until you are ready to submit your completed application form as per point two above.

Regrettably, any submissions without a completed application form will be rejected.

If you have any problems with the online recruitment process, please do not hesitate to email recruitment@diocant.org or call 01227 459401 asking for People Services.

Attached documents
Title File
Role Profile 2025_01_28_Role_Profile_-_Team_Administrator_(Safeguarding)_v2.0.pdf
Application Form Application_Form.docx
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