Allocations Assistant (Maternity Cover)

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join Tendring District Council as an Allocations Assistant.

This is a temporary post to cover maternity leave until March 2025.

The Council retains its own housing stock and allocates those properties through a Housing Register and is a progressive organisation with ambitions to improve the supply of affordable housing and modernise the way it interacts with residents.

Based within the Allocations team you will be responsible for processing housing applications in line with the Allocations Policy, updating and maintaining computerised databases, giving advice and responding to customer enquiries, and providing administrative support to the team.

You must therefore have:

• Relevant experience of working in a frontline customer focused environment
• Experience of using IT Packages
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with members of the public
• The ability to prioritise and manage workloads to meet deadlines

For further details, please see the attached job description and person specification.

For an informal discussion, please contact Cathy Low on 01255 68 6435