# Administrative Officers

**Company**: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
**Location**: East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scotland; City of Westminster, Greater London, England; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, South East, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 30,600 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is seeking Administrative Officers to join its team in the UK. As an Administrative Officer, you will provide professional office administration and support on transactions processing, projects, budgets, customer services functions, and internal and external communications.

The FCDO pursues the UK's national interests and projects its role in the world. With over 17,000 staff in 179 countries and territories, we promote British citizens' interests, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty, and tackle global challenges with international partners.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide professional office administration and support

- Create and maintain electronic filing systems, databases, and distribution lists

- Deal with telephone and email enquiries

- Organise meetings and events, and take notes in meetings

- Maintain stationery supplies and perform corporate roles such as fire warden or first aider

- Monitor progress against objectives and ensure projects remain on schedule

- Manage budgets, including monitoring, requisitioning, and raising purchase orders

- Provide guidance to customers and deal with them professionally

**Person Specification:**

- Strong literacy, numeracy, and IT skills

- Competent using IT packages, including Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, and knowledge of Windows 11

- Good interpersonal, team-working, and communication skills

- Good organisational, analytical, and planning skills with the ability to work to tight deadlines

- Ability to make effective decisions, identify problems, and propose solutions

**Benefits:**

- Salary of £30,600 per year

- Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme with employer contributions of £8,864

- 25 days Annual Leave per annum

- 9 days Public and Privilege holidays per annum

- Learning and Development tailored to your role

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- Outlook
- Excel
- Windows 11
- organisational skills
- communication skills
- analytical skills

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