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SalaryExecutive Assistant: Job Specification
Salary: up to £50,000 + annual bonus of further 20% linked to profit performance
Location: Hybrid if within M25 (3 days in the office / 2 from home) / Remote if further afield
Who You Are:
You’re a proven, highly active and ambitious individual looking to play a major role in supporting the Managing Director and Content Director / Founder in sustaining the growth of a very successful B2B media and events business that grew by 61% in 2023).
You’re competitive and looking to join a high-performance management team, to develop your career - and contribute to the development of your colleagues with a commitment to continuous improvement, and the use of new sales tools and methodologies.
Who We Are
Government Transformation Magazine is the market-leading provider of market insight on central and local government digital transformation. We are a legacy-light, high-growth organisation committed to outperforming our competitors through a commitment to quality and innovation.
We build capacity for digital, data, technology and operational delivery executives across the Civil Service and local government - and we report on, analyse and showcase public sector excellence here in the UK, providing a practitioner-led framework for our community to improve delivery and transform outcomes.
Our portfolio includes the largest and most senior digital, data and technology conference in the UK public sector - Government Transformation Summit - and we are ramping up our complementary marketing services (webinars, research, dinners, publishing) to enable our clients to reach and engage new and existing public sector clients all year round. We have launched a new exhibition to capitalise on our commercial momentum, and address the needs of our audience.
Our team is led by former public sector practitioners, and experienced global B2B entrepreneurs, bringing decades of credibility leading, engaging and enabling public sector organisations and the enterprise technology, consulting and telecoms companies that sell to them.
What’s In it For You:
- Join a successful, fast-growing and ambitious team.
- Be supported by dynamic, engaged business owners.
- Pension scheme with 3% company contributions (5% individual).
- Generous holiday allowance - 25 days including 3 days for office shutdown over Christmas/New Year, rising by 1 day per year for each year of service up to 5 years where holiday allowance is capped at 30 days.
- Work flexibility - attend the London office up to 3 days per week with the remaining days at home. Access to external world-class training resources.
- Travel to relevant trade shows and exhibitions.
- Summer and Christmas parties - all expenses paid.
Who You Are:
- A positive attitude to getting things done!
- Highly organised individual with ability to deliver tasks on time.
- Collaborative and collegiate in teamwork.
- A positive approach to challenges and problem solving.
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and spoken.
Your Responsibilities:
The role is designed to support the Managing Director and Founder to maximise their time “in market” with vendors and senior civil servants respectively to drive product development and revenue growth. This will include:
- Organising monthly board meetings / booking rooms / logging and distributing actions.
- Diary management: creating and ensuring extended time blocks for the MD/Founder to work and engage “in market”.
- In-bound communication handling (clients, civil servants, suppliers etc).
- Outreach support (chasing our engaged outreach with follow-up emails / calls to secure meetings and progress opportunities.
- Xero management including organising payroll, reviewing and paying expenses and invoicing clients.
- Super admin role across our operational systems (HubSpot, Zoom, VidYard, Gmail etc)
- Shared drive management.
- Staff onboarding plans - pre and post joining.
- Organising staff appraisals.
- General utility role to support where peaks of activity and admin exist.
