Responsible for supporting the Directors and their senior teams to stay organised with daily tasks and communications. Helping to maintain smooth and efficient operations at Director-level. It requires a friendly, proactive, can-do attitude and skills in prioritising tasks, remaining flexible and adaptable to various needs.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Meetings
- Setting up internal and external meetings.
- Ensuring that room bookings, catering, etc are in place before meetings/events.
- Ensuring that the Directors have assistance with documents ahead and post meetings.
- Administrative support
- Support the Directors with processing correspondence.
- Maintaining accurate and effective administrative and financial records.
- Organise and maintain the office system for the Chairman.
- Conference and event administrative support.
- Process expenses.
Communication management
- Facilitate effective communication within the organisation, with external partners (UK + oversees) and clients on behalf of the Directors
Travel arrangements
- Overseeing all travel and accommodation booked by the company through our external provider.
- Organising travel arrangements.
- Maintaining a good working relationship with our external travel provider.
- Keeping an accurate record of travel bookings.
Confidentiality management
- Handle sensitive information discreetly and maintain confidentiality on all matters.
Chairman support
- Collaborate with the Chairman's PA to ensure smooth running of his professional affairs.
Project Management
- Helping the PR department with organising various events and corporate stands for global events.
- Coordination of annual gifting from Chairman including Christmas cards and yearly desk calendar.
- Helping organise events.
- Other
- Cover reception lunch period on a daily basis.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
- Proven experience in supporting at a senior level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrable experience of technical skills (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint or similar) at a proficient level.
- Experience in handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Experience working autonomously with strong drive and motivation.
- Experience creating positive and productive working relationships.
Additional Skills and Key Attributes
- Conscientious work ethic with excellent organisational skills.
- Attention to detail and a can-do attitude with initiative.
- Proactive, resourceful, and diligent.
- Effectively multi-tasking and adapting to changing priorities in a proactive way.
- Enthusiastic, committed, and positive with excellent communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, accurate, and reliable with excellent time management.
- Flexibility and willingness to take on additional responsibilities as the role evolves.
- Strong team player.
Renumeration and Hours
- Salary circa £18K annual (circa £17.30 an hour)
- 20 Hours per week.
- Mon - Fri 4 hours a day (successful candidate can choose their preference of set hours for each day as long as it covers 1200 - 1300)
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.