Personal Assistant

We have an excellent opportunity for an exceptional Personal Assistant to join us as one of a small team who provide high level professional support to our Executive Team and Vice Chancellor’s Office.

Your duties will be varied, and include liaising with external organisations, colleagues and students; diary and email management; handling correspondence and providing support for meetings. You will need to be flexible with your working hours to ensure support is provided in line with the business requirements.

To be successful in this role experience of using digital communication methods and being familiar with online conferencing software is essential. You will bring with you exemplary Microsoft Office skills (MS Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint), and a thorough knowledge of electronic diary management. You’ll be highly motivated and proactive with a flexible, positive outlook and the ability to work to tight deadlines. You’ll have outstanding customer service and communication skills, together with the ability to establish effective relations with a range of internal and external contacts. Of course, your superb organisational skills are also essential in this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant and modern University, where you will be part of a small team of Executive and Personal Assistants. We offer flexible and hybrid working and how your split your time between working from home and working on campus will be agreed by negotiation. You will be expected to work on campus some of the time. We offer a friendly, supportive environment, an excellent benefits package, and the opportunity to further develop your skills and experience.

We will be checking our applications for this role regularly and will close the advert once we have sufficient applications.  If you are interested in this role, please submit your application to ensure you don’t miss this opportunity.

Informal conversations will be arranged with suitable candidates and Interviews will take place during the end of October 2024.

Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.

We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post.  All appointments will be based on merit.

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