Personal Assistant - Bristol, United Kingdom - Office for Students

Office for Students
Office for Students
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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £30,388 - £31,789
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer

  • Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
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Type of role:
  • Secretarial
    Working pattern:
  • Fulltime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • Westward House Lime Kiln Close Stoke Gifford Filton Abbey Wood BRISTOLAbout the job

Job summary:


Personal Assistant (PA)

Bristol

£30,388 - £31,789 (pro rata for part time)

Plus generous civil service defined benefit pension

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.


Person specification:


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

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £30,388, Office for Students contributes £8,235 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:


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.


Interviews:
week commencing 26 February

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment


Security:


  • People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks

Nationality requirements:

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service:

  • The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
  • We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
  • Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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