Clerical/Admin Assistant

Clerical/Admin Assistant
Location: Aqua House, Birmingham (B3 1AQ)

Brook Street is partnering with a reputed client (Environment Agency) in the Public Sector to offer an excellent site-based Admin Assistant opportunity. This is a fantastic chance to build experience, develop your administrative and financial processing confidence, and support day-to-day delivery-primarily by helping to host hearings and completing essential admin tasks.

What you'll be doing:
* Welcome visitors and support the smooth running of hearings (show people into the hearing room)
* Set up and connect any required equipment so it's ready and working correctly
* Handle general clerical/admin duties (ad hoc as needed)
* Process purchase orders and payments for suppliers
* Help investigate financial anomalies and support timely payments
* Upload contracts and complete centralised financial/admin tasks
* Collaborate with Project Managers and Commercial Service Managers
* Support incident response duties to help communities, when required
* Manage work allocation via a centralised email drop box (work packages/tasks)

What you'll bring:
* Strong communication skills and a confident, professional manner
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office
* Flexible, reliable approach and willingness to learn
* Independent working style with initiative and drive
* Comfortable with numerical information and confident with numbers
* Experience of payment processes (invoices/purchase orders) is helpful, but training can be provided
* Basic IT skills and a practical, can-do mindset

Additional Information:
* Full-time, site based, Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00 (37 hours per week)
* Pay rate: £15.46 per hour
* Assignment: ASAP start until 31/03/2027 (likely to extend, not definitive)
* Basic DBS clearance will be supported by Brook Street; full training provided
* If you've been outside the UK for 6+ months in the last 3 years, an additional overseas police check may be required (candidate responsibility)

If you're organised, confident with numbers, and ready to learn in a supportive team, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and let's get you on the path to a rewarding Public Sector role in Birmingham.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.