We have an excellent opportunity for a Personal Assistant TO SUPPORT our lovely creative client on a part-time basis – you will ensure that the principal’s professional life runs smoothly at all times.
Our client is looking for someone to assist them with weekly diary management, overseeing and updating spreadsheets, bookkeeping, and general support with administration and tasks.
Ideally, candidates will be interested in photography and have some experience editing photographs and managing social media platforms, but this is not essential.
Candidates will be dynamic, flexible, and confident, with a willingness to learn. You will be proactive, highly organised, and with strong attention to detail – someone with a significant degree of initiative who can optimise the principal’s time, identify inefficiencies and streamline their professional life.
This is a part-time, 3-month contract that could become permanent. Candidates will be on an 8-hour retainer per week. You will work approximately 5 hours a week remotely and attend three meetings in person a week. Flexibility is required. However, there is no expectation of working evenings or weekends. Candidates must be self-employed and live within commutable distance of the West End.
DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Diary and inbox management
- Schedule meetings and minute-taking
- Process and implement agendas
- Bookkeeping and invoicing
- General administration
- Organise travel arrangements
- Coordinate and liaise with their wider team for meetings, feedback, and actioning items
- Liaise with external stakeholders
- Experience editing photographs and social media is desired but not essential
- Ad-hoc duties as required
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Prior experience as a Personal Assistant
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn
- Excellent communication skills
- Efficient, highly organised, and with strong attention to detail
- Accountable and self-motivated
- Very adaptable, proactive, and reactive
- Calm, friendly, and approachable
- Excellent IT skills – MS Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Bookkeeping skills with either QuickBooks or Xero
- Fluent in English – both written and spoken
- Willingness to travel to the West End a few times a week
- Excellent checkable reference