Administrator

It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win.   As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!    

We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.  

Want to find more about our amazing benefits?

Meet Pete Dilks. He heads up our market leading real estate energy team focusing on innovative solutions to renewable energy and flexible energy generation. The team sits in our wider infrastructure and specialist markets business unit.

We have exciting growth plans, which will see us continuing to work with the best clients in, and beyond, the Midlands on the best projects. You’ll have great opportunities to progress and you’ll also get the chance to work with market leading technology.

We are looking for an Administrator to join our Real Estate energy team based in the Nottingham office, part of the firm’s Commercial Property & Development group.

You will provide administrative support to the team, providing a high quality service to clients, dealing with a variety of sale instructions and liaising with fee earners and other members of the firm daily.

Your key duties will be:

• opening and closing electronic and paper files
• using a case management system to process and progress cases
• carrying out post completion administration including billing
• taking telephone calls and messages
• photocopying, scanning, faxing, printing, filing and collating documentation in relation to contracts, leases and transfers
• archiving, storage and retrieval of documentation (electronic and paper versions)
• providing general administration and organisation of paperwork to support transactions
• processing incoming and outgoing post and arranging couriers

Key skills and experience you will have:

• a minimum of 6 months’ previous office administrative experience
• confidence with IT systems to include Microsoft Word and Excel
• the ability to work well in a team and develop good working relationships with colleagues and others
• good communication skills with the confidence to liaise openly and clearly
• the ability to produce a high standard of work, sometimes under pressure, whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
• to be able to demonstrate flexibility, initiative and confidence in your own ability

About you - you will be:

• highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
• respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
• keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of your work

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have hubs in Birmingham, Leicester, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be a hybrid of home based with travel as required into our Nottingham hub.

Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.