About this job
You will manage the UNISON Essex branch office where a small team provides and ensures the comprehensive administrative support to the branch team providing services direct to our members, regions and other branches. You’ll develop knowledge of issues and UNISON policy and procedures to enable you to answer a wide range of enquiries from members and activists.
Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential as is the ability to organise your own workload. You will be an experienced team leader who can work quickly and accurately to meet tight deadlines.
You will have supervisory responsibility for the office based staff.
You will need excellent IT skills including a sound working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
You do not have to have a Trade Union background, but you do need to have a sound understanding of the aims and values of the Trade Union movement.
How to apply
Please call 01245 608943 or email unisoninessex@gmail.com to request an application pack.
Please note completed applications should be returned to UNISON Essex, Church Lane House, Church Lane, Chelmsford CM1 1NH or alternatively unisoninessex@gmail.com
Completed application forms must be returned by 4pm Tuesday 13 December 2016
Interview date – To be advised.
*Please note that the employer is the UNISON Essex Branch not UNISON*
About UNISON
UNISON is the UK’s leading public services trade union, with over 1.3 million members working in the public sector, private, voluntary and community sectors and in the energy services. We employ approximately 1,200 staff, with around 370 at our national centre in Euston in central London and the remainder in our 12 regions across the UK, including Northern Ireland.
UNISON is a dynamic, progressive union, committed to equality. We encourage men and women of all ages, Black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to work with us.
