Payment & Allocations Officer
Job Description
Job title: Payment & Allocations Officer
Company: Wakefield Council
Job description: We are seeking a Payments & Allocations Officer to joint our district’s markets teamThere has never been a more exciting time to join the team at Wakefield District Markets.We’ve been working to deliver physical improvements with the Council investing almost £6.5m to refurbish and transform our markets. We’ve also introduced a new and exciting events programme and launched a new identity for markets. All this hard work is seeing renewed interest from shoppers and market traders who want to be involved in part of our plans to deliver a modern, vibrant, and sustainable markets service.Due to promotion, we are now looking for someone to join the markets business team who together are responsible for markets administration including trader recruitment, records management, income collection, events organisation and responding to enquiries from members of the public and traders.It is essential that you have a working knowledge of financial/administrative systems and procedures and possess strong ICT skills with previous experience of using databases for storing confidential data. You will also need to have experience of working with the public in a customer facing role and have excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.This role requires regular weekend working on a rota basis, for which a shift allowance is paid.In return you can expect a minimum 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and a range of other benefits including discounted and subsidised public transport, discounted membership to our excellent Aspire leisure facilities, as well as a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure benefits.For an informal discussion, please contact Sally Jones, Markets Business Manager on 727196.Job title Payment & Allocations Officer Job reference 239666 Date posted 22/03/2024 Application closing date 07/04/2024 Location Wakefield Salary £24,294.00 to £25,979.00, Grade 5 Package Blank Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Full time, Permanent Attachments Job descriptionWe are seeking a Payments & Allocations Officer to joint our district’s markets teamThere has never been a more exciting time to join the team at Wakefield District Markets.We’ve been working to deliver physical improvements with the Council investing almost £6.5m to refurbish and transform our markets. We’ve also introduced a new and exciting events programme and launched a new identity for markets. All this hard work is seeing renewed interest from shoppers and market traders who want to be involved in part of our plans to deliver a modern, vibrant, and sustainable markets service.Due to promotion, we are now looking for someone to join the markets business team who together are responsible for markets administration including trader recruitment, records management, income collection, events organisation and responding to enquiries from members of the public and traders.It is essential that you have a working knowledge of financial/administrative systems and procedures and possess strong ICT skills with previous experience of using databases for storing confidential data. You will also need to have experience of working with the public in a customer facing role and have excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.This role requires regular weekend working on a rota basis, for which a shift allowance is paid.In return you can expect a minimum 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and a range of other benefits including discounted and subsidised public transport, discounted membership to our excellent Aspire leisure facilities, as well as a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure benefits.For an informal discussion, please contact Sally Jones, Markets Business Manager on
Expected salary: £24294 – 25979 per year
Location: Wakefield
