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Executive Assistant

Signature Recruitment
Posted 19 hours ago, valid for 17 days
Location

London, Greater London E10 6EJ, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Signature Recruitment is seeking a highly organized Executive Assistant for a full-time, one-year fixed term contract with a salary between £30K to £35K.
  • The role involves providing secretarial and administrative support to the Data Initiatives Team in a financial institution focused on climate and nature crisis solutions.
  • Candidates should have experience in a startup or SME setting, particularly in providing assistance to Senior Executives.
  • Key responsibilities include complex diary management, organizing travel, and coordinating meetings with high-profile stakeholders.
  • The position offers flexibility with remote work and monthly travel to a co-working space in London, requiring strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Are you a highly organised, exceptional Executive Assistant who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? Do you have strong interpersonal and communication skills? Are you looking to make a difference working in a financial institute focusing on tackling the climate and nature crisis? If so, Signature Recruitment is looking for you to join our client, an independent, commercially focused and philanthropically financed organisation. This is a full time, one-year fixed term contract with a salary between £30 to £35K. You will enjoy the flexibility of working from home, with travel to the co-working space in London once a month.

As an Executive Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Data Initiatives Team. You should have experience in providing secretarial and administrative assistance to Executives in a SME setting. Your day to day will include providing complex diary and inbox management, organising travel and coordinating Board and Committee meetings and preparing briefings and papers as necessary.

Executive Assistant Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide excellent general administrative assistance to the Data Initiatives Team. To include complex diary management and logistic coordination as well as inbox support, prioritising, triaging and signposting as necessary
  • Confidently liaise with high profile stakeholders in a professional and timely manner
  • Organise complex arrangements, including meetings with a variety of stakeholders, both online and in-person and webinars for large engagements and associated logistics and travel plans
  • Attend meetings and take notes - recording and following up on actions and support other events as required
  • Collaborate with other EA’s and staff to ensure appropriate support is in place and provide EA cover to others as necessary
  • Execute ad hoc tasks as required to support the team and wider business such as working on projects, helping to establish systems and processes

Executive Assistant Key Skills:

  • A good work ethic with exceptional experience providing secretarial and administrative assistance to Senior Executives in a startup or SME setting ideally in international corporate or a financial institution
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with superb interpersonal skills
  • Detail orientated with strong organisation and good time management whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail
  • Good IT skills - highly proficient in MS Office Suite and ideally with experience of SharePoint and other Project Management systems such as HubSpot

If you are you a proactive, highly organised, exceptional Executive Assistant with a good administrative skillset and are ready to join a dynamic team making a difference - then please apply today.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.