Executive Assistant

Job Title: Executive Assistant
Location: Crowne House
Compensation: £36,000
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF: 51806

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Executive Assistant at our Crowne House Site.

The role

As an Executive Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Key to supporting the UK Aviation goal of keeping safety, performance, and people at the heart of UK Aviation so we can continue to create a safe and more secure world.

Day to day,

• Set out regular, structured working relationship with MD/FD to ensure workload and priorities remain accurate and changing priorities are actioned in a timely manner.
• Providing a high-quality point of contact for internal and external stakeholders. This will include managing calls, filtering and logging email inbox correspondence in a manner that supports the MD and FD prioritise required distribution in a timely manner for action and response.
• Pro-actively managing and co-ordinating diaries and meeting requirements to ensure the right prioritisation; Manages and maximises opportunities for off-site meetings, planning travel, hotel and meeting room bookings ensuring best use of time and logistics when working off-site.
• Trusted with confidential and highly sensitive information relating to internal and external projects, and in some cases, may be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Essential experience of the Executive Assistant

• Executive/ personal assistant experience.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to be adjust style to engage and ability to navigate and be comfortable in a matrixed organisation
• Confidence in being able to make diary judgement on behalf of the MD/FD.
• Highly organised, structured, and collaborative in getting things done.
• Ability to juggle competing priorities to meet stakeholder expectations.

This role is full time and is based on site at Crowne House

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International
For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 23/06/2023