We are an independent safety and economic regulator for Britain's railways and the independent monitor of Highways England.

The Central Support Administrator will work within the Central Support Team, a busy, friendly team in the Railway Safety Directorate (RSD).

Job Description - About the Role

The Central Support Administrator has an important role in providing admin support to the central support team to ensure that RSD's objectives can be effectively and efficiently delivered. In particular, the post will help with the input of train driver licences for the office, including quality assurance of the applications, supporting processes and will work closely with safety policy colleagues to enhance and develop our approach further.

Key responsibilities

Your key responsibilities, although not exhaustive, will be to:

• Assist the team with the effective delivery of statutory function to process train driver licences, including managing applications received within deadlines and to standards including updating medicals on the driver licence records;

• Provide general administration support to the central support team including the Director of Railway Safety. Including room bookings, photocopying and printing, catering requests, travel and accommodation bookings.

• Support the team in providing cover for the Emergency Contact Officer phone during the day.

• Support the Central Support Team Manager in managing the railway safety finance duties, making sure invoices are paid within the prompt payment target of 10 days, purchase orders are prepared and recorded correctly.

• Promote effective working relationships with other administrative/support staff across the wider organisation and contribute to an on-going process of improvements in administrative support.

This description of the job may be subject to review and is to provide you with guidelines within which you would work. Other duties appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.