Senior Business Support Assistant - Regeneration and Major Projects

• The official place of work is County Hall in Taunton, but the role offers hybrid working
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• This role is for 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.
• This role is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2028.
• If applying as a secondment, please seek approval from your manager before applying.

Some key information

We’re working to make Somerset an even better place to live, work, do business, invest and study – and you’ll be a key part of that.

As a Senior Business Support Assistant, you will be providing administrative support to the Regeneration and Major Projects team within the Economic Development, Skills and Climate Service.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• General administrative support to help to progress key regeneration schemes and major projects in Somerset, such as Town Deal, Levelling Up and Pride in Place programmes, Hinkley Point C and Enterprise Zone projects.
• Organising, administering and note-taking for a range of, often multi-agency, meetings.
• Financial administration.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you have:

• 5 GCSE’s/ NVQ Level 3 standard or equivalent, including Maths and English.
• Sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 applications
• Sound organisational skills
• Previous experience of an administration role.
• Previous experience of meeting organisation, administration and note-taking.
• The ability to work as part of a team

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

The Salary for the role is Grade 14, ranging from £25,185 to £25,989 per annum.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Lara Bell via email:  or Samantha Seddon via email: sam

Interviews will take place on Thursday 26th March 2026.

If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.