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Personal Assistant

Val Wade Recruitment
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for a day
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£36,000 - £43,200 per annum

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Contract type

Part Time

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  • A leading educational organisation in London is seeking a Personal Assistant to support two Deputy Directors in a hybrid temporary role until March 2025, with a possible extension.
  • The position offers a salary of £17.20 per hour plus holiday pay, and candidates must be immediately available.
  • Applicants should have previous PA experience, strong organisational skills, and be confident in managing complex diaries using Outlook.
  • Key responsibilities include managing correspondence, booking travel, taking minutes, and providing day-to-day financial support.
  • A DBS check will be required, and excellent communication skills are essential for this fast-paced environment.

Personal Assistant, Educational Organisation, hybrid temp role until March 2025 with a possible extension, £17.20 p/h plus holiday pay

Leading educational organisation, based in London requires a PA to support 2 Deputy Directors. This is a temp role until March 2025 with a possible extension. You need to be immediately available

Duties of the Personal Assistant role will include:

  • Being first point of contact for the Deputy Directors
  • Managing diaries and correspondence
  • Dealing with external stakeholders and internal staff
  • Perform secretariat duties efficiently for meetings involving setting up suitable dates, room bookings, drafting outline agenda, coordinating, and circulating papers
  • Some minute taking
  • Following up actions and keeping updated action logs, as required
  • Booking travel and accommodation well in advance
  • Provide day to day financial support and take the lead in raising purchase orders and processing invoices
  • Provide high quality, accurate and well-presented word processing of letters, minutes, papers and reports utilising Microsoft packages
  • Undertake relevant team support activities
  • Develop effective relationships and liaise with colleagues and external partners to ensure all aspects of work are dealt with in a consistent and appropriate way
  • Hybrid working

Skills and experience

  • Previous PA experience
  • Confident booking travel and accommodation
  • Diary management - complex using Outlook
  • DBS will be required
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Proactive and someone who thrives within a fast-paced environment
  • Strong organisational skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good working knowledge of all Microsoft packages

This is an excellent opportunity. Apply now!

Due to the large number of applications that we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Val Wade Recruitment are actively looking for applicants from underrepresented communities, and pride ourselves as an equal opportunities’ employer and agency.

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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.