Overview
How you’ll make a difference
As an Administrator for the Early Years team, you will be the first contact for early years settings and parents regarding the early entitlement funding and availability of childcare places. You will support the collating of data and financial information to ensure accurate service delivery.
As an important member of the team, you will be responsible for delivering sustainable excellence in early years practice to ensures all children are supported in a safe and high-quality provision to achieve strong outcomes.
What you will be doing
- As the first point of contact for the team, you will answer calls and deal with email queries from early years providers and parents.
- It will be your responsibility to research, collect, collate and present information in a clear and accurate way to contribute to early year reports.
- It will be key for you to support providers with accessing the early years portal to make census and financial returns and help with any queries.
- Regularly, you will be supporting early years providers to direct them to guidance, resources and further information.
- Day to day, you will record financial information as directed and accurately maintain records relating to early years.
What we need from you
- We require you to hold 3 grade 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths.
- It will be important for you to have well-developed interpersonal and communication skills and be able to build relationships to engage successfully with early years providers, parents and other agencies.
- You must have good literacy, numeracy and IT skills to enable you to present accurate reports and records.
- You must be organised, have attention to detail and be motivated to learn and adapt to tasks asked of you.
What you need to know
- Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
- This is a 12 month limited term contract.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home. You may also be expected to visit other early years sites such as our training room at Parkwall Primary School.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 2nd October 2025.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Business and Finance Support Officer – Job Description
