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About the Role
An exciting opportunity to join an enthusiastic and motivated Executive Assistant role within Brent's impressive Civic Centre, supporting two Directors with diary management, mail handling, and meeting arrangements.
Responsibilities
- Support directors with diary management.
- Manage mail and electronic mail invitations.
- Arrange appointments and meetings.
- Take responsibility for venue, background papers, and actions for meetings.
Requirements
- Experience providing personal support to senior managers in a large and complex organization.
- Experience in diary management.
- Experience developing effective relationships with officers and partners.
- Good knowledge of local authority functions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Dedication, accuracy, and a high level of customer focus.
- Ability to use initiative to delegate and escalate as appropriate.
- Outstanding track record of providing high-quality personal support to senior managers in a busy office environment.
- Experience working as part of a busy team, sharing good practice, and working closely with others.
- Resilience, forward-thinking, and ability to handle a challenging workload with a flexible approach.
- Ability to respond quickly to changing workloads and priorities.
- Ability to handle enquiries to ensure director's time is managed effectively.
- Highly organised.
- Excellent communicator.
- Excellent skills in MS Outlook and arranging meetings.
Skills
- Diary management
- MS Outlook
- Arranging meetings
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Location
- Civic Centre
- Other locations from time to time
Work Type
- Permanent
- 36 hours per week
- Hybrid working options
- Flexible working options
Experience Level
- Experience of providing personal support to senior managers in a large and complex organisation
- Experience working in local government, or with elected politicians or senior local authority leaders would be an advantage but not essential
Salary/Compensations
- £41,511 to £43,449 p.a. inc.
Benefits
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with length of service, plus bank holidays
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
- Supportive family-friendly policies, including carers’ leave, paternity leave and compassionate leave for eligible employees
- Health and wellbeing support, including eye test support and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial wellbeing support, including education sessions, childcare deposit loans, and season ticket loans
- Travel support, including affordable parking nearby, a Cycle to Work scheme, and onsite facilities
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career
- Access to My Brent Rewards with exclusive discounts on shopping, travel, leisure and entertainment
About the Company
- Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough with a long history of ethnic and cultural diversity.
- The Council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community.
Equal Opportunity
- Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects the people we serve.
- We welcome all applications from all sections of the community and encourage applicants to complete the diversity survey section of the application.
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity, respect and fairness.
- We expect all employees to demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and to promote inclusive, non-discriminatory practices in their work.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
- We also guarantee an interview to care-experienced applicants who meet the essential criteria.