Executive Assistant - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Homes England

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Salary:

- £27,497 - £32,349
Job grade:


  • Administrative Assistant
    Contract type:
  • Temporary
    Length of employment:

months
Type of role:


  • Administration / Corporate Support
    Working pattern:
  • Fulltime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 2Contents
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Location

  • Liverpool, NewcastleuponTyneAbout the job

Job summary:


  • Working in the Chief Operating Office team, the post holder will play a critical role in providing a highquality support service to members of our Senior Leadership Team. You will be joining a friendly and experienced team of corporate support professionals'; collaborative relationships will be established to share information and knowledge in a Community of Practice.

Job description:

You will be expected to work in an agile and flexible way supporting the mission-based approach of Homes England. This will involve working collaboratively and across teams/Directorates.


Person specification:

You will have previous administrative/secretarial experience supporting leaders to achieve business plan targets.

You will demonstrate excellent organisation skills, an ability to work at pace and communicate well with both internal and external partners.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy.

You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an Agency.

You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.


As an experienced support professional, you'll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

You are an advocate for change and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.


Benefits:


  • Homes England is an executive nondepartmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits.


  • Holiday

  • Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.


  • Working Flexibly

  • At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
  • These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.


  • Health and Wellbeing

  • We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.


  • Professional Development

  • At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one jobrelated professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
  • We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
  • If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.
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Selection process details:


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

Security:


  • See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
  • 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:

  • Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.-
  • 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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