Higher Executive Officer

We've got a great opportunity for a long term temp role within the Government Department, to join a fast paced office as PA/Diary Manager.

About the Role

The role will cover of activities required to support the Deputy Directors in their daily activities. Key responsibilities include:

• First point of contact for partners, customers, staff and other stakeholders, building and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Managing the Director's inbox, sorting emails, flagging urgent work and helping workflow.
• Diary management, general team support and prioritising competing priorities.
• Coordinating regular and ad hoc meetings, booking rooms, catering and arranging travel and accommodation.
• Delivering secretariat outputs for governance boards or key site meetings, including setting agendas, note taking, producing actions and monitoring outputs.
• Handling a range of corporate tasks with discretion, tact and diplomacy and dealing appropriately with sensitive information.
• Providing cover to support other PA workloads and building a support network.

About the Candidate

Essential skills and requirements:

• Organising and delivering work to tight deadlines.
• Working across teams and within a team.
• Effective communication skills with a broad range of colleagues and stakeholders (orally and in writing).
• Working on own initiative and prioritising workload to meet conflicting objectives.
• Attention to detail.
• Competent IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Brook Street are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and guarantee interview to all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, provided they meet all essential criteria.

As a Disability Confident Leader and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, we offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

If you are interested in this position, please apply below.