Administrator, Royal Bindery

Royal Collection Trust
Fine Art and Library
Windsor Castle
Permanent
£19,000 - £20,000 per annum, dependent on experience
37.5 per week, over 5 days Monday to Friday

It’s supporting the team who bring the future closer to history.

It's feeling inspired to deliver to the very highest standards and sharing one of the world's greatest art collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so special.

With nearly 200,000 books and manuscripts, and 250 years' worth of Royal documents, the size and breadth of the Royal Library and Archives is fascinating.

Working as part of the Bindery section, in a new role, you'll play an integral part in the daily running of the book conservation and bookbinding studios. Be it managing correspondence and queries, co-ordinating meetings or assisting with the procurement of goods and services, you'll provide wide-ranging and exceptional administrative support.

You'll also assist with records management and maintaining databases, which, in turn, will help the team care for centuries of history.

The Royal Bindery offers the only full hand bookbinding apprenticeship scheme in the UK and a key part of your role will be making sure this programme is well organised and runs to plan.

You'll support the promotion of the scheme by co-ordinating fund-raising events, training workshops, and attending apprenticeship and book fairs, whilst also helping to create content for online publications and social media

Your knowledge will develop in the role and, as a key point of contact, you'll be relied upon as a source of information, liaising with internal colleagues and external people alike.

Responding to a wide variety of queries will be a challenge, but you'll deliver an outstanding service every time, contributing to the success of the department.

As an experienced administrator, with exceptional organisation and time management skills, you're exactly who we’re looking for.

Proactive, with lots of initiative, you'll be confident juggling a varied workload, effectively balancing priorities and deadlines.

Excellent communication skills will be important, and you'll be confident liaising and building relationships with a wide range of people.

You'll also have good writing skills, and are comfortable adapting your writing style to draft content for a variety of platforms.

With capable IT skills, you'll quickly learn to use a variety of IT programs.

And possessing a keen eye for detail, you'll always deliver work with faultless accuracy.

With a proactive and flexible approach you're a real team player, and will enjoy working alongside your talented colleagues to achieve results.

This is your opportunity to use your administration skills to deliver the exceptional.

Vacancy Closing Date: 24/06/2018, 23:55

This vacancy is closed to applications.