Senior Personal Assistant

6 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Office for Students Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 308267**Salary**:

- £34,695 - £36,470- We are an ALB rather than Civil Service. If you join us from the Civil Service, your pension will carry with you, but your continuous service and holiday accrual will not.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- .**Type of role**:

- Secretarial**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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- Lime Kiln Close Stoke Gifford BRISTOL BS34 8SRAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Senior Personal Assistant (PA)**

**Bristol**

**£34,695 - £36,470**

**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 description**:
**About the role**:
The administrative resource unit (ARU) is a large team of professional administrators who provide a range of admin support across the organisation. If you are successful, you will be using a range of in-house programs, working with knowledgeable and inclusive peers. You will also have the chance to work alongside our officers who develop and enforce regulatory duties in the Higher Education sector. There are multiple roles as the ARU grows to meet business need.

The role includes line management of between 5-8 staff and activity management of an admin group

**Areas of responsibility may include**:

- PA support - ensuring that the senior manager/Director can carry out their own roles as effectively as possible by arranging calendars, making appropriate travel and accommodation arrangements and making decisions on diaries without reference to manager
- Performing initial research to assist manager responding to stakeholders
- Line management and knowledge of relevant HR policies.
- Solving day to day problems and contributing to continuous improvement of your area of work
- Activity management of an admin group supporting a specific area of work, taking forward improvements to organisational processes as appropriate.
- The role requires effective communication with stakeholders to deliver the responsibilities of the administrative function.

**Person specification**:
**About you**:
You will have strong written and verbal communications skills. Be discreet and have good attention to detail and organisational skills. Experience of Microsoft Office programs, Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams are essential. A strong desire to develop yourself and others and the ability to assess, evaluate and suggest solutions. You will be confident in engaging with a wide range of people.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,695, Office for Students contributes £9,402 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.

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two days in a typical week.

Interviews: week commencing 18 September

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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
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