Firearms Licensing Administrator
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £12.79 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon and Cornwall, EX2 7HQ |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | JM BL 8365484 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Firearms Licensing Administrator
JM BL 365484
Office based
Devon & Cornwall
NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 3 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.
Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role, initially 6 months. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.
Key Requirements:
Experience of using IT systems, including Microsoft Office applications.
Demonstrable customer care skills.
Ability to organise work effectively in order to meet deadlines and targets.
Proven administrative skills.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
The purpose of the role is to provide an effective and efficient quality administrative service to the firearms licensing team, seeking to ensure that all firearms licensing applications are in support of legal activity.
Key Responsibilities:
Undertake processing activities flagging any concerns or suspicions of potentially criminal activity to the Supervisors.
Maintain awareness and update knowledge in the area of Firearms Legislation and changing processes and procedures.
Provide customer focused point of contact for telephone enquiries to the team, providing advice and guidance to callers on all aspects of firearms licensing.
Manage/process payments for certificates
Receive, sort and distribute high volumes of mail and email.
Carry out checks on applicants using Force intelligence systems.
Ensure that all applications are appropriately and accurately recorded and uploaded to management systems.
Scan application documents for retention on suitable database, ensuring archived material is fully recorded and stored prior to disposal of the hard copy.
We will also add your details to our mail out lists. Please note you may receive details of roles outside of your immediate vicinity, as many candidates are able to relocate temporarily for work. Please disregard any such emails that are not of interest and let us know if you would rather not receive such mailouts and/or if you wish us to delete your details and prefer to apply direct to our advertised roles.
If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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Job Ref: JM BL 8365484
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.