This excellent opportunity will enable you to provide comprehensive, high-quality administrative support to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, ensuring the effective coordination of safeguarding activity, compliance with Church of England safeguarding policies, and the accurate and secure management of sensitive information. The role involves a range of administrative duties including:

Managing calendars, meetings and correspondence.
Preparing agendas and papers, and take minutes for safeguarding meetings
Maintaining confidential records
Supporting parishes with the administration of DBS checks
Organising safeguarding training events and programmes.
Assisting with audits, inspections and quality assurance processes, and preparing reports for governance bodies
Maintaining safeguarding databases and tracking systems, ensuring high standards of data accuracy and producing a range of reports, Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

We are looking for an individual with substantial experience in administration involving complex processes, proven organisational ability, and experience in handling highly confidential and sensitive information. The ideal candidate will have confidence and expertise in using databases, and record management systems, with a high level of IT proficiency, Microsoft Office.
You will also have strong written and verbal communication skills and have a flexibile approach to ensure tasks are completed to deadlines. With the nature of the role, the ability to keep calm under pressure, and the resilience to cope with the impact of safeguarding matters is essential, along with empathy with the Church of England, its missions and aims.

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