Executive Assistant Jobs in South East
To be an effective lead on HR related matters, supporting the CEO and Management team, ensuring it is well-positioned to achieve its vision, current and future business operational plans and performance targets.
This is a key role instrumental in bringing the HR and Business administration functions together at an operational level. The core purpose of the role will be to support and manage all People and Management related administration matters across the organisation.
To take the lead for data protection and champion compliance across the organisation.
Please complete an application form, monitoring form and a covering letter to evidence how you meet the requirements of the person specification
To build meaningful lives as part of the wider community for refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Reporting to the Head of People & Operations, we are seeking a highly organised and proactive administration professional who will be responsible for the day to day running of a dynamic and supportive business support and governance service, with an integral role in shaping and implementing improvements in line with our strategic goals. You will be a team player who supports the values of our organisation and is committed to our overall aims.
We are looking for someone who can provide comprehensive support with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and who can build relationships with all key stakeholders, both internal and external. You will be able to manage competing demands, have a keen eye for detail and the ability to handle confidential information with absolute discretion.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Come and join our team! This varied role, uses project management and executive assistant skills to deliver excellent service in a fast paced environment within the Christian sector. The role involves supporting The Maclellan Foundation, one of the largest Christian Foundations in the USA. The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years' experience in administration and will be sympathetic towards the Christian faith and the aims of the organisation.
Please review the full job description and person specification and submit your CV for consideration.
Please note we are reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the post early.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO?
We are the UK’s student mental health charity. We challenge the higher education sector, health sector, and government to work with students when making decisions that impact them, and make them accountable for prioritising student mental health. In collaboration with students, we show sector professionals what effective student mental health looks like, and bridge the gap between students and the communities around them to ensure their voices are always heard.
By creating and curating resources, stories and tools, we empower students to build their own mental health toolkit to support themselves and their peers through university life and beyond. We want to empower and inspire students to use their voice to share their stories and advocate for themselves.
ROLE PURPOSE
As our Executive Assistant (Maternity Cover, 0.8 FTE, Fixed term for 12 months), you will play a crucial role in developing and supporting our charity and strengthening our administration and governance. You will be providing flexible assistance primarily to our CEO, in the planning and delivery of their workload. You will also provide administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team, Trustee Board and other structured groups which shape the charity’s strategy and activities, for example our Clinical Advisory Group. As such, you will have the opportunity to work with the entire Student Minds team and a variety of stakeholders across the health and higher education sectors.
Key responsibilities:
Chief Executive Officer assistance
- Email and calendar management: helping to prioritise demands, responding to correspondence on behalf of the CEO and following up with contacts post-meetings.
- Arrange meetings and itineraries and coordinate travel as required.
- Stakeholder management support: utilising CRM to maintain updated databases for organisational contacts; support with the completion of contracts and registering purchase orders with suppliers,where the CEO is the lead contact.
Meeting management
- Plan and coordinate relevant meetings to ensure they are purposeful and relevant. These will include Board meetings, Senior Leadership Team Meetings, Leadership Group meetings and any other general committee meetings.
- Provide logistical and administrative support for all meetings, arranging suitable meeting premises or software, preparing and circulating agendas and meeting papers in consultation with the relevant participants (e.g. Chair of the Board, CEO and Senior Leadership Team).
- Coordinate catering requirements and liaise with the finance team to make purchases.
- Take high-quality and accurate meeting minutes and circulate them for appropriate approval and sign-off.
- Ensure prompt follow-up with agreed action points and follow through with ongoing delivery of commitments.
Governance support
- Provide administrative support where applicable to meet the charity’s requirements with
- Companies House and the Charity Commission.
- Support with Trustee recruitment, induction and training.
- Support the charity’s continuous improvement and compliance using tools such as the Governance
- Code.
Senior Leadership Team coordination
- Support with coordinating multi-stakeholder meetings, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
- Support members of the Senior Leadership Team or their guests with the use of our core systems and software (Google Workspace, Google Meet, Slack, Mural, Zoom).
- Process any travel expenses for the Senior Leadership Team.
- Manage charity records: provide historical reference by supporting procedures for the retention and disposal of records.
- Welcome guests and provide tours of facilities or support guests to use online meeting software where required.
Other duties
- Such other duties as may be reasonably prescribed by the organisation, appropriate to the grade and responsibilities of this post.
- Provide cover for other team members as necessary to ensure seamless operations and support across the organisation.
- Work to agreed charity and personal targets.
- Attend regular team meetings with Student Minds colleagues.
- Ensure compliance with Student Minds’ internal procedures and all external legal requirements.
- Ensure equality and inclusion responsibilities for your area of work.
- Undertake training and attend conferences as appropriate.
- Engage with and provide feedback on projects and strategic reports developed by other members of the team.
- Work flexibly and undertake tasks to support Student Minds colleagues as required.
BENEFITS
- Generous annual leave allowance - 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus a 2-week winter closure
- Flexible working - we encourage all employees to reflect on when and where they work best and how they need to fit work around caring or other commitments.
- Wellbeing is at the heart of what we do - we support staff to implement Wellness Action Plans and offer 10% of weekly working hours for you to invest in your wellbeing.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme - we also offer wellbeing support through an Employee Assistance Programme which provides a wide range of resources as well as confidential counselling.
Are you passionate about the Samaritans mission and eager for a new challenge? Perhaps you want to develop new skills and broaden your experience? If so, what better part could you play than this exciting opportunity to work as an Executive Assistant to support our Executive Leaders and help Samaritans continue to be there for people when it matters most.
The role
As an Executive Assistant in the newly formed Business Support Team, you’ll be highly organised and a great communicator. You’ll be responsible for providing highly efficient and effective support across all administrative and organisational activities. Working in a fast-paced responsive team you will be one of the first points of contact for the Executive Leadership Team and will assist with administration and organisation of diaries for meetings and travel arrangements, preparing briefs and drafting various communications where appropriate. You’ll attend key meetings in a supporting role and ensure efficiency and timely support to the Leadership team.
You’ll also assist with front-line reception administration services in the Ewell, Epsom Office as required.
The team
At the heart of our organisation's success lies the crucial role of administration support. These roles wield direct influence over the realisation of core strategic objectives, as well as the smooth functioning of day-to-day business operations. The newly formed Business Support team will not only cater to the needs of Executive Leadership Team and departmental/staff administration but also plays a pivotal role in supporting the broader organisational ambitions through services such as record retention/retrieval, telephony, postal/courier management, cash handling and more.
The terms
Samaritans are looking for two Executive Assistants to join the team - details below;
- 12 month Fixed term contract
- Full time - 35 hours per week. Part time - 20 hours per week preferably worked over 4 days
- £33,000 - £35,000 per annum (£18,857 - £20,000 per annum for 20 hours/week)
- We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
- Predominately office Based in Ewell (Surrey), with actual home/office mix to be determined.
- Some occasional out of hours/weekend attendance at events/meetings.
Skills and Experience:
- Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills; ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with colleagues and volunteers at all levels.
- Ability to produce clear documentation to be used by staff, volunteers, senior management.
- Knowledge of office administrational functions, facilities soft services (cleaning, telephony related services).
- Excellent organisational skills, with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Good IT skills including use of MS office, particularly MS Word and Excel
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities and maintain a positive and professional approach.
- Strong attention to detail.
- A high level of integrity, with experience of keeping sensitive information confidential.
- Experience of working independently and successfully as a part of a team.
- Desirable experience of charitable environments
- Desirable experience of project support or project management
Application:
If this role sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply. You’ll be asked to upload your CV and provide a Cover Letter (2 pages maximum) tailored around your motivations for applying and your transferable skills and experience. This role will close for applications midnight on 29 April 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: PA to Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.2 hours per week (0.60 fte)
Location: Remote/Home working
Salary: Grade C £ 16,888per annum - £19,511per annum (£28,148 - £32,519 pro rata) depending upon experience plus 8% employer pension contribution (pro rata)
We are looking for a highly organised and motivated individual to provide an excellent PA service to our Senior Leadership Team and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).
You will have previous experience as a personal assistant working within a busy team. You will be skilled in using all Office applications as well as in prioritising and supporting multiple people simultaneously.
You will work independently but also be part of the CEO Office team and will be key to contributing to our wider purpose of saving butterflies and moths.
If you are excited about the prospects of working for a leading wildlife charity, please read through the job description and person specification, to see if you have the right skills to join the team. Please visit our website to learn more about Butterfly Conservation.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
Closing date: Midday Tuesday 07 May 2024
Interviews will take place on Friday 17 May 2024
(either via Teams or Zoom)
No Agencies please
REF-213 381
Based from home in the UK with regular travel around the UK as necessary.
This role is responsible for providing high-level support, managing complex projects and engaging with a wide variety of people on behalf of the Chief Network Officer. This role acts as a key point of communication with internal/external contacts, coordinates cross-organisational processes and projects, and manages the office, including liaising closely with senior members of the Operations and Network Programmes directorates.
Role responsibilities
· Managing and supporting a regular cycle of team and project meetings and events, including preparing project plans, management reports, ensuring the completion of actions, and supporting the strategy planning cycle.
· Liaising with key external contacts (food banks, partner organisations etc) on behalf of the Chief Network Officer, including maintaining regular correspondence, managing diary requests, and organising events and business travel.
· Conserving the Chief Network Officer’s time by reading, researching and routing correspondence, drafting letters and documents, collecting and analysing information and initiating communications.
· Acting as a project manager / stakeholder on behalf of the Chief Network Officer to ensure outcomes are achieved and information is communicated.
· Creating supporting materials for presentations, talks, conferences and planning meetings, including sourcing and preparing collateral, and formatting presentation slides etc.
· Curating and updating relevant information systems on behalf of the Chief Network Officer, including HR systems, finance systems, impact / performance systems and file storage.
Person Specification
Technical skills and minimum knowledge:
· Clear understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality
· Ability to work autonomously, with excellent time management and communication skills along with excellent decision-making ability
· Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications, including Office 365 (including Sharepoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) and Adobe Creative Suite
· Highly numerate, with the ability to present and analyse data
· Excellent attention to detail and communication skills (both written and verbal)
· Ability to work through challenges in positive and effective ways
Behaviours and competencies:
· Ability to effectively represent the organisation and promote core brand messages
· Develop a culture of innovation, resourcefulness, and best practice to make the best use of time and skills.
· Is able to work through challenges in positive and effective ways
· Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust
· Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially- excluded backgrounds
· Role models inclusive behaviours and values
Key Stakeholders
· Chief Officers
· Senior Leadership Group
· Director of Operations
· Director of Network Programmes & Innovation
· Operations Leadership Team
· EA/PA team members
· Staff, Volunteers, external partners, contacts from food banks
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Facilities Assistant Manager
We’re looking for an experienced Facilities Assistant Manager to join World Vision, an important charity helping vulnerable children across the world.
Position: Facilities Assistant Manager
Location: Milton Keynes
Hours: Full-time - 36.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term for 5 months (1 May 2024 until 30 Sept 2024)
Salary: £30,874 per annum FTE + good range of benefits
Closing date: 19th April 2024
About the role:
As Facilities Assistant Manager, you will deliver the day-to-day provision of quality support services at World Vision UK, ensuring excellence and the best value to the organisation. You will ensure Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Compliance in our activities, training, and empowering colleagues as necessary. You will support remote workers and those at Hubs as per service standards. You will also provide full cover for the Central Services Manager in his/her absence (Operations and People).
The position is varied and interesting and, at any time during your working day you could be involved in duties from maintaining, checking, and receipting deliveries, ordering stock and stationery, managing meeting room and common area requirements, to supporting relationships with external users of our facilities and providing occasional admin support in respect of budgeting and invoice processing. You will also be expected to provide occasional reception cover. Overall, you will ensure that the support capacity you offer is well-organised, efficient, and delivered in a timely and professional way.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Ensure day-to-day activities pertaining to the building and building services including routine maintenance, fault reporting and rectification if appropriate, are carried out.
- Undertake reviews of key suppliers and contractors to ensure WV are getting the best value, negotiating terms where necessary and making recommendations to the Central Services Manager.
- Manage regular and ad hoc external contractors such as security, cleaning, and maintenance, including scope and timing of work, quality control and change requests, within our Safeguarding protocols.
- Monitor, review, and administer Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental systems to maintain and improve (through training, policy change and empowerment) our performance and to ensure all legal requirements are met. provide staff training and investigate accidents and incidents when required. providing regular reports.
Key skills required for this role:
· A level of education, or equivalent
· Good organisational and administrative skills. Track record of successful staff supervision/management.
· A practical, solution and service focused approach to problem solving. Knowing what can be done internally, and which contractors need to be brought in when.
· Good interpersonal skills with the ability to multi-task, manage contractors and respond positively to changing priorities.
· Communicates clearly and consistently to multiple audiences.
· Knowledge and experience of current FM best practices, Building Management, physical security etc.
· The ability to effect minor repairs within the building in an efficient manner.
About the organisation:
World Vision UK is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries. Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. As a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.
As a child-focused organisation, we are committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.
We are a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting you to complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see: The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Please note we can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture, and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.
You may also have experience in areas such as: Facilities, Facilities Officer, Facilities Assistant, Facilities Manager, Facilities Executive, Facilities Coordinator, Facilities Admin, Facilities Administrator, Facilities Administration, Onsite Assistant, Estates, Estates Assistant, Estates Officer.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.