Personal Assistant (PA)
Job title: Personal Assistant (Part time Job share)
Salary or salary range: £30,388- £31,789
Plus generous civil service defined benefit pension
Contract type: Part-time
Location of position: Bristol
Application deadline: Sunday 24 March
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 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 external 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. This role will be offered as 0.5 (18.5hrs), Wednesday to Friday.
About you
Office experience is essential. 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, managing a quality service Openness – Communicating and influencing, collaborating and partnering
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.
Closing date for applications: 24 March
Interviews: week commencing 1 April