Team Assistant - Fleet

We have a great opportunity that has arisen within our Direct Services team for a Team Assistant . You’ll be providing a full range of administrative and support services, ranging from moderate to complex, to facilitate the effective and efficient operation of the team/department.

Some key duties will include:

• Developing and maintaining administrative and office systems, databases/spreadsheets, online Fleet related platforms such as Licence check, tracking, TFL, Insurance etc as required.
• Booking vehicles in for relevant maintenance (MOT, Service, repairs), updating calendars and communicating back to drivers/managers.
• Arranging, and attending or representing unit/supervisor at meetings, including preparing papers, booking rooms, taking notes, and drafting minutes.
• Intercepting and screening telephone calls, emails and written correspondence, dealing with, or redirecting enquiries to the appropriate areas/managers, as necessary.
• Providing project support to the team and to lead on administrative projects such as fuel audits, insurance audits, key audits etc as required.

This is a 12-Month Secondment / Fixed Term Contract working 24 hours a week. Your main site will be The Tramsheds, Croydon, with a requirement to work on onsite at least 2 days a week.

What You’ll Have

• Experience in an Administrative role.
• Fleet experience or adjacent is desirable but not essential.
• Computer skills sufficient to operate on-line system and complex software or develop formulas for moderately sophisticated spreadsheets.
• Oral and written communication skills sufficient to interpret and apply policies and procedures and to resolve problems, and to present a professional approach to all customers and stakeholders.
• The ability to use a variety of software packages to produce correspondence and documents, and maintain presentations, spreadsheets and databases.

Advert closing date: 1st November 2026 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).