Personal Assistant to Regional Director South West

**Summary**

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Personal Assistant to Regional Director South West.

This role would be ideal for an individual who has done a personal assistant, administration, project support or coordination role.

**This is a Full Time, Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2026.**

The location of this role is Bristol where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in our office and from home.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive **pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contributions,** a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

**What you will be doing**

As our Personal Assistant to the Regional Director, you will provide support to the Regional Director (and Head of Region, as required), ensuring that their office is organised and operating effectively. You will work closely with other administrative colleagues and specialist to provide wider administrative support to the regional office.

You will provide proactive diary management and forward planning for the Director and Head of the South West region, ensuring that regular and ad hoc internal and external meetings and site visits are scheduled and organised effectively and efficiently, including site visit risk assessments.

You will be responsible for Inbox and correspondence management where required, including identifying and communicating urgent actions, directing correspondence to the appropriate person or place and tracking actions arising from correspondence.

**Who we are looking for**
- Secretarial, administrative and office organisation experience
- A good standard of accuracy and attention to detail, with an high standard of written and spoken English, editing and proof reading skills.
- Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
- Strong organisation and planning skills. Proven experience of managing changing diaries or event planning
- Proven ability to work effectively under pressure, juggle conflicting demands and manage multiple tasks.
- Experience of maintaining office and administrative systems and of devising new systems or improving existing systems where appropriate.
- Proactive with an adaptable and flexible approach to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

**Why work for Historic England**

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: June 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £23,588.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol BS1 6JQ