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Executive Assistant

Signet Resources
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 12 days
Location

Oxted, Surrey RH8 0JP, England

Salary

£35 - £42 per hour

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The job is for an experienced Executive Assistant/Project Officer to support a Chief Executive and Senior Management Team.
  • Candidates should possess confidentiality, discretion, and proactive management skills, with responsibilities including managing email inboxes and liaising with various stakeholders.
  • The role involves updating risk registers, project documents, and producing correspondence for the Chief Executive.
  • This is a 6-month position, ideally requiring the candidate to work 2 days a week in the office, and it falls inside IR35 regulations.
  • The annual salary for this position is equivalent to £42,000, and relevant experience is required.

Are you an immediately available experienced EA/Project Officer seeking a challenging role supporting a Chief Exec and Senior Management Team? 

The successful candidate will  provide support to the Chief Executive and Management Team whilst liaising with internal service areas, elected councillors, members of the public, other boroughs and districts and local stakeholders/partner agencies.  This support requires confidentially, discretion, proactivity and the ability to manage sensitive issues. 

Duties 

  • Managing email inboxes to ensure matters are dealt with efficiently.  Proactively ensuring that emails are acknowledged and forwarded to relevant officers/teams.  Tracking the responses to ensure completion. 
  • Liaise with specialists across the Council to find out information, gain support and advice, move forward work areas i.e procurement, Communications etc  
  • Update relevant risk registers, project documents and audit actions 
  • Having a high-level understanding of the key issues for the council and intervening where necessary to ensure projects/issues are handled appropriately.
  • Dealing with small discreet projects. 
  • Producing correspondence on behalf of the Chief Executive. 
  • Diary management ensuring appointments are made, rooms booked and papers are available in advance of each meeting. 

The role is to initially for 6 months duration and is ideally 2 days a week in the office. 

The role is inside IR35 and annual salary equivalent is £42k. 

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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.