Executive Assistant, Investment London, England
Job description
Executive Assistant, Investment
Closing date : 07/05
A bit about the role...
Working in the Investments Directorate supporting Senior Leaders at Directorate level, the Executive Assistant will play a critical role in supporting senior leaders to be effective in their role. You will be joining our enthusiastic and experienced team of Executive Assistants, who are committed to providing high-quality service to their assigned Directors. You could be supporting up to 3 Directors in the Investment team so this role is critical.
Here, in the Investment directorate we believe in delivering a first-class customer service and taking an innovative and creative approach to any issues. We believe in working in a collaborative way, valuing diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.
There are some exciting projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Investment offering.
A bit about you…
Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate. You will demonstrate an ability to handle multiple priorities and apply excellent attention to detailed in the work you do.
You'll be comfortable supporting your assigned Directors with complex issues, anticipating their needs, and showing initiative in problem solving. You will be able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism and confidentiality in the work that you do.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable supporting stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
As an experienced Executive Assistant you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.
Your skills and experience should cover key Executive Assistant activities such as, organising diaries, managing inboxes, minute-taking, travel booking. You should be great at building your network, collaboration and teamwork and the ability to spot great opportunities for your assigned Directors.
We are looking for someone who has the following key skills and knowledge:
1. Excellent organisation skills with ability to anticipate and show initiative.
2. Resilience to adapt to ever changing priorities and demands, demonstrating knowledge and professionalism to support leaders to achieve outcomes
3. Excellent administration skills, ability to communicate clearly, orally and in writing with good attention to detail
4. Ability to work at pace and with multiple priorities
5. Effective time management skills
6. Stakeholder management skills with demonstrable initiative, proactivity and engagement with business
7. Political sensitivity, and the ability to exercise appropriate discretion, tact, diplomacy, confidentiality and judgement on issues of significance and importance, particularly when dealing with officials at the highest level
8. Ability to build rapport and trust with senior leaders
9. Advanced digital skills, with knowledge and experience of a range of software applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The ability to produce high quality documents and presentations
Who are we?
We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.
We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.
What we offer...
We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.
If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.
