Executive Assistant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £25,324- £25,324 (National)
  • Please see Selection Process Details for more information.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Cities and Local Growth Unit
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Job summary:


The Areas Directorate is a joint unit between the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and Department for Business and Trade (DBaT).

Our mission is to empower places - from rural to major cities, from prosperous places to those facing challenges in the modern economy, to bolster their potential through boosting economic growth.

We lead within the UK Government on regional policy, including a range of initiatives including support for regenerating towns and high streets, local growth plans and economic intelligence.

We work at different levels, from the small neighbourhood to the large sub-national strategy.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as an executive assistant in a fast-paced and varied.

It would suit someone wants to work with a variety of stakeholders and actively engages in corporate activities to drive a high performing team culture.


Job description:


  • Providing proactive and comprehensive diary management for the Deputy Director by scheduling meetings and continually monitoring for any subsequent adjustments (through direct liaison with counterparts in other senior offices), organising travel arrangements, and booking meeting spaces.
  • Advising the Deputy Director on key priorities, ensuring the Deputy Director is aware of any emerging important or sensitive matters.
  • Undertake general administrative duties and tasks as required by the Deputy Director or the wider team. This may include arranging meetings for the team and managing the process by which followup actions arising from team meetings are progressed and recorded.
  • Support the North West area team to coordinate the regular requests for information the team receives to ensure that deadlines are met.
  • Work with the North West Area team lead to develop and regularly update key resources including core briefs, fact sheets, funding dashboards and risk registers
  • Support the North West area team in organising visits and away days across the region.

Person specification:


  • Have strong communication skills, and the ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people including with very senior stakeholders in a pressurised environment. They will also be able to appropriately tailor their communication styles to suit the audience
  • Need to be able to work at pace, and effectively manage competing priorities using good judgement and decisionmaking abilities
  • Be able to see how their work and the work of their team supports wider objectives of the Areas Directorate and meets the needs of diverse stakeholders
  • Bring a very proactive attitude, and will always strive for the highest standards of quality in every area of their work.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £25,324, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £6,837 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
    We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.


  • The assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
  • Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
  • If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

At sift, we will be assessing
Experience (Lead Criteria): Please provide a summary of your experience working with stakeholders and providing administrative support.

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