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Contracts Administrator

Reference: MAR20170986
Expiry date: 2017-03-26 23:59:00.000
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £24,000.00 - £26,000.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Excellent holidays and pension
Attachments: ContractAdministratorAdvert.docx
ContractsAdministratorJobDescriptonv3.docx

Milton Keynes College are working in partnership with 28 of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offenders Institutes putting education at the heart of the prison system.

We have a new exciting opportunity for a Contracts Administrator to Join the Offender Learning team based at Milton Keynes College.

As a contract administrator, you will support the OLASS Director to exercise control over a significant and complex multimillion-pound OLASS contract by undertaking the required contract administration to ensure it is discharged in accordance with agreed contractual provisions.

As a successful candidate, you will have:

  • Have proven knowledge, skills and experience in contract administration
  • Have excellent attention to detail
  • Able to perform repetitive tasks with a high degree of accuracy, ensuring a consistently high standard in all aspects of work
  • Take pride in providing excellent customer service
  • Have a good understanding contracting principles
  • Experienced in developing, recommending and implementing solutions to role related problems.
  • Have a good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Able of prioritise work and ensuring defined tasks and activities are discharged effectively, accurately and professionally.
  • Have effective verbal and written communication skills, enabling professional output to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Be educated to Degree level or equivalent in appropriate subjects with demonstrable commercial aptitude or a person with demonstrable commercial aptitude based on previous experience.

Location: Milton Keynes College Chaffron Way

Salary: Circa £24,000

Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Reporting to: OLASS Director

Proposed interview date:
Friday 7th April 2017

More about the rewards

As well as having 25 flexible days holiday per year you will also get 3 additional days to be taken over Christmas and of course all of the bank holidays. We offer a car allowance scheme “Just add fuel”, but if you prefer a more environmentally friendly approach to travel we also offer a cycle to work scheme. As part of Milton Keynes College, you are entitled to apply for an NUS student discount card with offers in plenty of local restaurants and high street shops. Childcare vouchers are available and of course the option of being part of our local government pension with employer contributions of 11.5%. For more about our benefits please visit the MK College website.

More about the College

Milton Keynes College deliver an exciting and varied curriculum in 28 of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offenders Institutes. We also have a successful Employment Academy model which works with employers and stakeholders to enhance our learners’ chances of re-entering society successfully, to find employment upon release and to live fulfilling lives. The curriculum we offer is designed taking into account both the needs of the learner, external stakeholders and the local employment needs. We are proud of supporting our learners’ successfully through education and ‘Through the Gate’.