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• Leeds
• Posted 16th Jul 2009
• 
• Posted by: JHR
• Salary: £22-23k
• Job Type: Contract
• Address: 4 York Place
  Leeds
  LS1 2DR
  
• Contact: 0113 2337760
• Reference: JH209
• This job has been viewed 101 times since it was posted.

Job Description

Location: Leeds City Centre Salary: Circa £22,000 - £23,000 Role: Executive PA Employment type: Contract role with a view to be made permanent

Our client is a corporate organization who specializes in project based work within the public sector, they are looking for a highly polished PA from a professional services background who can work as PA to a Financial Director and a senior consultant.

This role requires an experienced PA who has:

Experience in HR (the FD also looks after this area of the business) so exp would be desirable
Excellent organizational skills Experience working to strict deadlines Proven Diary management experience
Excellent time management and ability to priotitise tasks Proven experience coping under pressure Good Multi-tasker Excellent problem solver, able to stay calm under pressure Experience working in an office management capacity, eg: managing facilities issues

Summary of role

Provide Partner support through personal assistance. Be able to assist with discrete tasks when identified either internally or project focused.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Deliver end-to-end administration for an assignment, this includes managing and monitoring the agreed deadlines, including prompting consultants on various stages of the process Actively contribute to the delivery of projects to improve client satisfaction Understands and promote the firm’s business plan and live company values Organise Partner diary commitments to make most effective use of time Have detailed knowledge of staff roles, internal services and products and use this to aid team efficiency

Skills required

MS Office suit of tools Relationship building with others that encourages them to contribute to the effectiveness of the team Communicate with clarity and confidence

Knowledge required

Understand the priority and importance of work and to actively contribute to the development of the project Undertake appropriate activities to participate in self-assessment, goal setting, assignment and personal reviews Is able to access a range of internal and external electronic sources of knowledge to obtain relevant information

Behaviours / Attitudes

Build up good relationships across company functions and with client personnel Proactively make constructive recommendations on improving services that enhance own and others role to the benefit of the team Makes a contribution to the corporate management of the company by taking a longer term view of workload and appropriate level of administration support Demonstrates a flexibility to own and others’ work e.g. offers assistance when colleagues are overworked, does extra work out of hours etc. Willing to embrace ambiguity and drive the development of solutions that support the development of business in changing context

Due to the amount of response we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give feedback to individuals, if you have not heard back within 5 days please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for.

(Jo Holdsworth Recruitment – Recruitment Agency)