Executive Assistant to The CEO - Cambridge, United Kingdom - lowRISC CIC

Description

The Role

The main purpose of this role is to provide a high level of secretarial and administrative support to the CEO and the management team of the Organisation.

If possible, we would also like this person to be responsible for managing the Cambridge Office and providing a professional welcome to our occasional visitors from US Corporations.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide secretarial/administrative support to the CEO and management team
• Detailed and accurate preparation and circulation of Board packs and the taking/distribution of Board minutes (this takes approximately 1 week per month)
• Working with the other Board members and external organisations on behalf of the CEO
• Attendance at key partner and steering group meetings (usually remotely) to take minutes and follow up on actions
• Organisation of meetings, interviews and larger company events
• Management of the Cambridge Office which may include such activities as: overseeing the cleaning contract, ordering supplies and health and safety management

Person Specification

Essential skills and experience

• Ideally +5 years as a senior level EA or secretary
• Experienced in attending Board and/or management meetings and taking accurate minutes
• The ability to help prepare and edit highquality written documents and board minutes
• Fast touch typing for competent and accurate minute taking
• A high degree of attention to detail and ability to thoroughly check for typing errors in documents
• Confident when dealing with Board members, legal advisers and partner organisations (customers) in a professional and courteous manner
• Advanced level MS Word/Power point skills
• Able to set up meetings in person and remotely for both UK participants and those overseas
• Motivation to drive improvements in process, policies and procedure. An ability to anticipate requirements and a willingness to suggest new ideas and improvements.
• Extremely well organised, task focussed and a completerfinisher
• An ability to work within a rapidly changing environment, cope with many ongoing threads of work and be able to prioritise and reprioritize as required to ensure their successful and timely resolution
• A flexible, enthusiastic and collaborative approach
• An interest in helping to make the office an efficient, wellorganised and desirable place to work.

Desirable

• Experience using Google Docs
• Experience in a law firm or professional services business as a legal secretary or assistant would be advantageous
• Experience of dealing with US tech corporations in different time zones would be beneficial as well as continental Europe

The Organisation
Salary and Benefits

• Salary of £3040k per annum although there may be some flexibility for experience
• Hybrid working by agreement with a minimum of 3 days (Monday to Wednesday) in the office
• 12.5% employer's pension contribution
• Group Income Protection Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays

About lowRISC

lowRISC is a non-profit Community Interest Company that uses a collaborative engineering approach to develop and maintain open source silicon designs and supporting software.

Our expertise includes processor and SoC design with a particular focus on hardware security, design verification, RISC-V tools and the LLVM compiler.

Our mission is to unlock the potential of open source silicon and enable its widespread adoption, with more credible, accessible and efficient silicon solutions than exist today.

Through projects like OpenTitan we partner with organisations such as ETH Zürich, G+D Mobile Security, Google, Nuvoton, Seagate, and Western Digital.

We also maintain close links to researchers in computer architecture at the University of Cambridge amongst other research communities.

The team is based in Cambridge, UK, amongst the Silicon Fen's ecosystem of high tech start ups. Our office is in the heart of the city and a short walk from the train station.

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