Job Description

My public sector client is looking for an experienced Personal Assistant to support their Deputy Directors. This is a full-time temporary assignment for eight weeks, Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm paying £14.58 per hour. This role is currently working on a hybrid model, with a requirement to work onsite for 3 days and 2 days from home.

Your role will be to provide senior administrative/personal administration support for their Deputy Directors this will include:

• Diary management and inbox management
• Managing the Deputy Director's schedules and arranging meetings - making decisions that balance competing priorities including, travel, desk-time and breaks and arranging travel and accommodation when necessary, ensuring value for money and suggesting delegation of meetings to others where necessary
• Booking rooms, sending electronic invitations, organising refreshments and also administration support: scheduling, preparing papers, and also making notes and providing comprehensive action points which need to be followed up on
• Proactively and independently make decisions on which meetings to prioritise and anticipating and scheduling regular meetings, including one-to-ones with direct reports.
• Organising team away days and events
• General administration duties such as data entry, answer telephones, filing and replying/issuing routine correspondence

Skills required:

• Highly organised, confident self-starter, well-motivated and pro-active
• Show sensitivity and emotional intelligence
• Good organisational skills and be able to prioritise workload and adapt to changeable deadlines
• Good communication, both written and verbal form
• Confident in engaging with senior stakeholders and customers
• Have the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and are able to apply very high levels of attention to detail
• Fully proficient in all Microsoft packages: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

This role will require a clearance and three years referencing in place before you start on the assignment.

Due to the high volume of applications for this role we may not be able to contact every candidate who applies.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.