Personal Assistant Portsmouth, South East England, England
Job description
Personal Assistant
Job Title: Personal Assistant
Location: Portsmouth, UK – Hybrid with working from home options available
Compensation: Attractive salary + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 45380
Make your skills count
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Personal Assistant.
As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
Babcock Corporate Services (BCS)
The Personal Assistant role is based within our Babcock Corporate Services (BCS) business unit.
Babcock Corporate Services (BCS) is a global function, with our largest site being Lakeside in Portsmouth, but we operate from multiple sites around the world. BCS supplies and operates all IT, security, procurement, and finance Shared Services. We are embedded alongside the operations that we serve, enabling us to maintain close working relationships that support delivery to our customers. We drive standardisation, simplification and automation across Babcock, to help generate sustainable value for the group and our external customers.
The role
The difference our new Personal Assistant will make
As the Personal Assistant , you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. With your skills and experience, you’ll work well with the BCS senior leadership team, providing day-to-day administrative support.
Day to day, you’ll be responsible for providing day to day support in all administrative activities for our Senior Leadership team. You will be liaising with multiple PA’s across the organisation and working independently to ensure that administration tasks are being completed. This includes organising meetings, booking flights, minute taking, and arranging and attending high profile meetings.
At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you’ll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.
We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role requires occasional travel to Portsmouth hub alongside remote working arrangements. Therefore, would be ideally suited to someone within local distance to Portsmouth due to travel expectations.
- Proven PA/Administration experience
- MS office skills
- Tech literate
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Robust – ability to support a strong leadership team
- Be proactive, flexible, and adaptable and one that takes initiative
- Successful candidates will need to satisfy security requirements. This may require you to hold or be eligible/capable of achieving ‘Security Check’ (SC) clearance
Generous benefits including:
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Pension members – death in service 4 times base salary
- Paternity – 2 full weeks pay
- Maternity & Adoption leave - 20 weeks full pay – 13 weeks SMP
- CSP - Up to 5 years service - 26 weeks full pay, 5 to 10 years service – 39 weeks full pay, 10 years plus – 52 weeks full pay
- Working from home and flexible work patterns
- Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
- Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best
Babcock International
For over 130 years, we 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. Change begins with our people and our shared Principles: be curious; be courageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.
Armed Forces Covenant
We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. If you are a reservist in the armed forces, we provide up to ten days special paid leave in support of your training commitments.
Application Guidance
All applications should be made online. 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: 18/04/2023
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