Consular Assistant A1, Las Palmas - Lanzarote (ESP92) -
Spain -
Foreign and Commonwealth Office -
Closing Date : 19 Mar 2017
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The British Embassy in Spain is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas and is now recruiting for the position of Consular Assistant, based in Lanzarote.
The British Consulate in Las Palmas protects and promotes the interests of approximately 2.9 million British visitors who visit the Consular district each year and over 25,000 British residents who live there. The Consular district includes Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
The core of the job will involve attending to members of the public applying for emergency travel documents, managing appointments, and ensuring the Consular Officers in Las Palmas have all the necessary back up information to enable them to issue the emergency travel documents.
Main Duties / Responsibilities
- To attend customers applying for emergency travel documents, and processing their application forms.
- To perform ad hoc general administrative duties.
- 2-3 years of work experience.
- Proven experience in dealing with the general public and working in a team in a fast moving target-driven environment.
- Self-motivation to work alone remotely.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills.
- Superb attention to detail and problem solving skills.
- Self starter with strong time management skills - able to work to deadlines and targets and manage a sometimes heavy workload.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills –Fluency in both English and Spanish (C2 level).Language level will be tested during the interview.
- (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel) are important as you will be working remotely.