Administrator

Location: Homebased Contract: Fixed-term, part-time (1 full day or 2 half-days a week) Salary: £5,400 per annum (£27,000 full time equivalent) Closing Date: 20th February 2025 Are you an Administrator looking for a new opportunity? The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals - and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people - including those from under-represented or marginalised groups. We are currently looking for an Administrator to join our EDI team. About The Role Reporting to the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, the postholder will assist in the administration of training, arranging meetings and liaising with internal and external stakeholder groups. The postholder will have excellent organisational and communication skills, attention to details with the ability to manage a diverse workload on own initiative with limited supervision. Responsibilities

• Supporting the MSSC EDI Lead in the administration of training, meetings and stakeholder groups
• Responsible for minutes of meetings, committees and distribution
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders on EDI to arrange meetings and event timings
• To undertake other administration tasks and general duties as required from time to time
• Working alongside HR, Safety and Safeguarding teams as required to ensure case management administration
• Occasional travel for meetings and attendance at evening/weekend events may be required
• Coordinating with UK-wide area teams to support their training facility booking needs.

Requirements

• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Attention to detail
• Sound IT proficiency, including Microsoft Word, Excel and outlook and experience of using in-house databases
• Have strong data and analytics skills to enable collection, analysis, develop and implement solutions as appropriate
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information
• Experience of general office administration including diary management
• Experience of working on own initiative with limited supervision

Desirable

• IT qualifications (e.g. ECDL, Microsoft Officer Certification or similar)
• Experience of working for a charity

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack. If you are interested in this role, please apply now! Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per annum, increasing with length of service
• Hybrid working for many roles
• Volunteering Leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential

Additional Information MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer. We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire. All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.