Personal Assistant - Val Wade Recruitment : Job Details

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.