Job Description

Our Public Sector client is looking for a Personal Assistant to join their team to support one of the organisations Directors within their department. This is potentially a five-month temporary role with the possibility of extension. Full time Monday to Friday 37.00 hours a week, 9.00 to 5.00pm. This role will be paying £14.87 per hour.

This client has multiple offices but has asked that this role work mainly remotely, the candidate should ideally be based in Bristol, Exeter or Birmingham, but also be prepared to travel to other locations if necessary. All associated travel will be paid for.

Your role would be to provide personal assistant support to the director, which would also include being pro-active and achieving personal results, in protecting their diary and delegating meetings with their deputy directors. You would be expected to develop a strong working relationship with their individual executive assistants to ensure smooth running of the senior management team.

As part of this role, you will be required, but not limited to, the following responsibilities:
- Email and diary management, prioritising or rearranging where necessary and flagging any potential clashes
- Arranging and booking travel and accommodation
- Arranging/booking meeting rooms and conference facilities
- Attending meetings to note take and issue/chase action points
- General administration duties such as data entry, answer telephones, filing

Skills required -

- Highly organised, self-starter and well-motivated as you will be mainly working unsupervised, have a need to self-manage
- Able to prioritise workload and adapt to changeable deadlines
- Good communications in both written and verbal form
- Confident in engaging with senior leaders and customers over the phone and in person and be able to work as part of an integrated team
- Have the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and are able to apply very high levels of attention to detail

-Good working knowledge of MS applications including SharePoint and OneNote.

Please note this role will require a DBS check, and three years referencing.

If you feel that you would have the necessary skill set for this role and are ready to take on a new challenge, please apply online. 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.