Executive Assistant

Here at Stonewater, we are seeking an experienced Executive Assistant to our Chief Officer of Safety, Assets & Sustainability.

Within this role, you will provide a proactive and strategic approach to managing the Chief Officer’s commitments in a fast-paced environment and you will thrive on owning and managing multiple tasks/projects at any one time. Tasks include time, diary and travel management, meeting organisation, project coordination and managing incoming and outgoing communications. You will provide an organised and diligent approach to providing information flows, presentations, reports, as well as providing high quality support to relevant Panel, customer, partner and stakeholder meetings.

You will need to be able to work autonomously and have exceptional communication skills to interact with colleagues (at all levels), customers and stakeholders. Confidential information will need to be handled with discretion.

The Executive Assistant will also research, prepare and present material and information relevant to the Chief Officer’s work programme and draft written communications to colleagues, customers and stakeholders in response to contact on specific sensitive matters.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have proven experience as an Executive Assistant, providing support at Executive level or above for 5+ years (ideally within a similar sector, Registered Provider or in a Repairs and Maintenance setting).
• Ideally hold a relevant qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Business Administration.
• Be able to work pro-actively at pace and under pressure to meet objectives and targets.
• Comfortable managing a range of conflicting demands and deadlines.
• Have strong organisational skills including the ability to plan and priortise own work and manage tasks and projects.
• Able to prepare for meetings, take minutes and circulate records of meetings.
• Have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Have the ability to develop, proof read and edit reports and documents.
• Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications; Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Teams.
• Be highly methodical with a keen eye for detail.
• Be able to build credible relationships, influence and advise stakeholders and communicate well at all levels.
• Understand, and be committed to, confidentiality.
• Be flexible and able to travel nationwide to meetings, as required.
• Be flexible and willing to align work patterns with the needs of the Chief Officer, including working offsite.

Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 39,000 homes, serving 82,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 800 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.