Personal Assistant to Senior Management Team and - London, United Kingdom - Department for Transport

Department for Transport

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £28,119

National £28,119
London £32,251
Job grade:
Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DFT
Roads and Local Group (RLG)
Roads and Projects Infrastructure Delivery
Type of role:
Administration / Corporate Support
Project Delivery
Secretarial
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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About the job

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Location

Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

Can you work with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations?

Are you able to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing?

Have you got a resilient attitude to achieve outcomes despite any setbacks?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

Job description:

_ Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: _

The Roads and Local Group are offering 3 people the opportunity to join their directorates, including Roads and Projects Infrastructure Delivery (RaPID), Roads Strategy (RS) and Logistics and Borders (LAB).

As a member of the Directors Office for two busy direcorates, you will support the team in ensuring the smooth delivery of the Directorate's core corporate responsibilities, and wider client functions.

This is a great opportunity to develop an understanding of how a Project Management Office functions, whilst getting involved in the Business requirements of the directorate.

You will play a pivotal role in supporting the Directors by helping to resolve conflicting and competing demands on their availability and resources.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification:

About you
To thrive in this role, you will

Have experience of offering support to internal colleagues when in need.
Be able to build and maintain effective relationships and work confidently with internal and external partners.
Have strong verbal and written communication skills so that you can proficiently deliver the Government's agenda with pride, passion and purpose.
Be confident in working within a fast paced environment and delivering to tight deadlines.

Additional information

A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours:

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

Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Benefits:

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits.

We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

Things you need to know

Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
Experience of managing a varied workload, including any conflicting priorities you dealt with and how you managed your time effectively.
Experience of providing personal assistant support to colleagues, including how you managed yours and others priorities and taking initiative in forward planning.
Experience of managing change, including how you worked flexibly to achieve a tight deadline.
Experience of problem solving.

The sift is due to take place 4th December 2023.

Interviews are likely to be held from week commencing 11th December 2023

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role.

As a result, your assessment will include:
- an interview

This interview will conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview._

You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

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