Personal Assistant (PA)
Office for Students - Bristol, South West
Salary: £30,388.00 - £31,789.00 Plus generous civil service defined benefit pension
Application Deadline: Feb 11, 2024
About us:
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
Job Summary
The administrative resource unit (ARU) is a large team of professional administrators who provide a range of admin support across the organisation. Although you will be based in one directorate, the ARU is a flexible resource, moving to meet business need and adding variety and skills to the day job.
The aim of the Personal Assistant is to provide high quality and effective support to specific senior managers/Directors, enabling them to carry out their own role as effectively as possible. Key responsibilities include working with other administrators to contribute to best practice; organising manager’s calendars and travel, making effective decisions based on sound judgement, and proactively adding to the development and improvement of relevant administrative processes. The role requires engagement with internal and externals stakeholders to plan and manage activities related to the functions of those they support.
Job Description
The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:
strong written and verbal communications skills
discretion
attention to detail and organisational skills
flexibility and team-working
knowledge of relevant software and word-processing programmes.
About you:
The Office for Students culture is based on the values and competencies of Ambition, Diversity, Learning and Openness. The behaviours we demonstrate when we do our job is as important as getting the job done.
Ambition – seeing the bigger picture, making effective decisions, delivering at pace
Diversity – inclusive leadership, interact respectfully, value differences, give access to opportunity
Learning – developing self and others, challenging and improving, managing a quality service
Openness – Communicating and influencing, collaborating and partnering, inclusive leadership
Working for us:
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working (29.5 hours per week minimum), apply to this role.
Closing date for applications: 11 February
Interviews: week commencing 26 February