Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Part time Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Hours: 17.5 hours a week (ideally across four or five days, and withing ISHA’s core working hours of 10am-4pm)Contract: Permanent
Location: Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, London N4
Salary: £19,500 pro rata (£39,000 full time equivalent)
You’ll be the first port of call for many internal colleagues, Board members and external stakeholders, with this Housing Assoication's Chief Executive active as part of many London and national fora. Great customer service, exemplary diary management, and a commitment to the organisation's values are a must.
Some of the key responsibilities for this role will include:
- Managing the CEO inbox, prioritising emails for responses etc, ensuring delegating task are completed. Prioritise enquiries and requests whilst troubleshooting conflicts and making judgements and recommendations to ensure smooth day to day arrangements.
- Manage the Chief Executive’s diary ensuring that Chief Executive is fully briefed.
- Build and maintain trustworthy relationships with the Chief Executive’s key stakeholders and colleagues. To communicate and liaise with sensitively but confidently with people from all levels, both internally and externally including board members, executive directors, Senior Management Team, the local authority and other housing association partners and residents.
- Oversee the coordination of information to assist the Chief Executive in preparing for key meetings with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Timetabling key discussions in the business cycle.
- Collating and publishing Leadership team papers and tracking actions.
- Liaising with Third party providers to ensure the smooth running of contracts/projects.
- Processing of invoices for the Chief Executive with related spend.
- Playing a key role in Chief Executive led initiatives to ensure the timely and successful deliver, for example aways days and or our staff conference.
- Prepare expenses and other financial matters in line with our financial regulations.
- Other duties that help us deliver first rate services to our residents and customers internal and external, for example minute taking time to time.
- Organise any travel arrangements.
You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.
About the Employer
This society is a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Their ambition is for the communities they are anchored in and exist to serve, and they have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times they know they’ll achieve nothing unless they are equally ambitious for their people.
Their values are at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions. They strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
They can’t be a brilliant landlord if they don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, they want you on their team. Please do submit an application.
Staff Benefits
They will offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits.They have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and they will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
Inclusion and Diversity
They want their organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in the team, and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything they do.
This role is based at this organisation's Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
Deadline: 10am on Monday 11 November 2024Interview: Tuesday 19 November 2024 in person at Finsbury Park HQ.
Please note: This employer can only accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
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