Executive Assistant

**At Accent we believe everyone has the right to a safe, secure and warm place to call home. Are you ready to go above and beyond to support our Technology, Data and Business Transformation leadership team deliver lasting change that will make a real difference for our customers?** We’re looking for an** Executive Assistant **to join our **Technology, Data and Business Transformation **team. **About the role and person**: - 35 hours per week - Permanent The Technology, Data & Business Transformation directorate is responsible for ensuring that the data, information and technology services needed by Accent to operate its essential daily services are Available, Secure, Trustworthy, Resilient and meet our customers expectations. Our customers are at the heart of our business and we design our services with our customers and for our customers. As Executive Assistant to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), your role is to support the CIO and the Leadership Team, comprising the Director of Information Technology, the Head of Transformation and the Head of Data. Coordinating their meetings, travel and administrative requirements, you will be the critical liaison point between the CIO function and the other directors and business areas in the organisation. The work of the CIO Directorate can be highly sensitive and requires a very high level of discretion and confidentiality. **Salary** The spot salary for this post is £38,588 per annum for applicants who fully meet the requirements of the post. Applicants, who do not meet all the requirements of the post, will start 5% or 10% below the spot salary. **What will you get from us?** In addition to a competitive salary and agile working, we also have a focus on employees’ development. We support both professional and personal development, ensuring everyone has a development plan and provide access to a wide range of internal and external learning resources. **You’ll also receive**: - 28 days paid holiday (pro-rata excluding bank holidays) per year rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of one working week. - A choice of Pension Schemes including a Defined Benefit Scheme with a 7.5% member contribution or a Defined Contribution Scheme with a 4% member contribution and 4% employer contribution. Both pension schemes provide Life Insurance Cover. - Option to purchase additional holiday of up to 2 of your working weeks (at managers discretion). - Employee Assistance Programme. - "Hapi" Benefits App with multiple discounts. - Cycle to work scheme. **What skills/behaviours do you need to be an Executive Assistant?** - Experience of working in a role involving high level administration and organisational support to teams, or individuals at PA level - High level communication and time management skills - Attention to detail - Ability to work to strict, and sometimes competing, deadlines - Effective interpersonal and problem-solving skills - Self-confident, assured and able to act on own initiative - Experience of working independently and acting in a position of responsibility, discretion, and trust **Location** We’re a keen promoter of agile working and encourage working from home, as long as we meet our customers’ needs. We’ll provide you with the equipment and software you’ll need for the purpose of your role however it will be your responsibility to have an appropriate space to work from as well as a suitable broadband connection/provider. **Who are Accent?** At Accent, we believe that everyone should have access to an affordable, sustainable, and safe home, and our work across the country aims to do just that. We’re a national organisation, but with a community focus. We were formed in 1966 and have grown in the time since, and now provide homes and services to over 40,000 customers. We understand the impact our work can have in creating better places for people to live by providing well-designed housing, which is in short supply, and building sustainable communities where people choose to live. We are proud of our Homes England Strategic Partnership, which allows us to build even more homes in areas of housing need. But we are not just about building new homes. We invest in our existing homes to make sure they offer our customers the very best in living standards by adapting to meet new ideas, environmental changes, new regulations for safety and security and modern technology to make them a home for life, in every way our customers need them to be. Caring for our customers also means caring for their environment. With our ambitious energy-efficient development plans, and our retrofitting projects which are modernising our current homes; we are putting sustainability at the fore so that we can drive value for customers now and in the future. As anchor institutions in the communities where we work, it’s important we leverage partnerships and seek opportunities for customers that provide the foundations for better living. We build