An exciting opportunity has become available for a Personal Assistant to provide direct support to our CEO. This is a part time opportunity on a permanent basis, offering an immediate start. The successful candidate will be required to work three (3) full days per week, this role offers a combination of both hybrid and office-based working between various sites located within the Beaconsfield, Hemel Hempstead and the Amersham area.
The CEO is fully engaged with running a number of successful growing businesses and works closely with the Board of Directors across these organisations. With the continuous growth of the businesses, the support is needed from a Personal Assistant to help manage the time and priorities, which in return will support the CEO with time to focus on high level activities that will drive the businesses onwards. To assist in that goal, we are looking to recruit a Personal Assistant who will coordinate and assist our CEO where needed.
This role would suit an individual who enjoys the challenges of working hard in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This opportunity would suit someone who enjoys a varied role but is dynamic, engaging and highly efficient.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
- Organising meetings, preparing agendas, taking and distributing minutes as and when needed and ensuring follow up actions are completed.
- Maintaining diaries and emails. This includes scheduling meetings and drafting email content.
- Travel arrangements and insurance.
- General administrative tasks.
- You will also be responsible for the upkeep of vehicle management including servicing and insurance.
- Organising events including overseas business trips and large corporate company events and conferences, you will be responsible for overseeing to ensure a smooth and successful delivery, whilst monitoring and maintaining the event budget.
- Management of ad-hoc projects. These tasks will require the ability to work closely on high-profile, largely confidential, projects.
- Supporting the CEO with producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
- Ad hoc requests and assistance as needed.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is highly Computer Literate (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Possesses strong personal planning and work organisation skills and enjoys organising others
- Professional telephone manner, both incoming and outbound
- Has exceptional standards in quality of work and total discretion relating to sensitive information
- Is conscientious, productive and efficient.
- Makes sound judgements in performing work tasks.
- Originates, implements and executes new ideas; takes initiative.
- Enjoys working closely with others in often very pressurised situations.