Peridot Partners Hiring for Executive Assistant – Education Practice Job at Newark on Trent, England Full Time

**Suitable for experienced PA’s, senior administrators and business support officers**

Executive Assistant – Education Practice

Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible working between home-based and office-based in Newark-on-Trent or King’s Cross, London
Reporting to: Education Practice Manager
Salary: £22,000 per annum

Job Summary/Purpose:

Reporting to the Education Practice Manager, your primary focus will be to provide professional and efficient business support to consultants working in the Education Practice. This will include managing diaries, project management, client relations and customer support, alongside more general administrative and database entry duties.

Summary of duties and responsibilities:

• Administration, project and business support for consultants.
• General administrative tasks associated with the role including database entry to ensure all records are up to date and in line with the GDPR.
• Manage enquiries and candidate applications, providing an exceptional level of candidate care and customer service.
• Support research for candidate generation with guidance from the recruitment project team lead.
• Support the management and coordination of interview and assessment days.

General duties:

• It may be necessary to support wider business support functions of the company at times.
• Develop an understanding of sectors and organisations in the sectors and markets we work in and gain intelligence on trends, insights and the career movement of people.
• Involvement in other projects as required.

Person Specification

Criteria: Essential

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Experience of providing personal assistance, business or administrative support to colleagues in a busy and fast-paced working environment.
• High level of verbal and written communication skills that will enable you to communicate effectively and credibly with the team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects within a pressurised and dynamic environment and able to prioritise effectively.
• Able to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, to be innovative and think creatively.
• Highly motivated with ambition and a desire to progress and achieve.
• Highly organised, thorough and with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively independently as well as with a team.
• Able to work with professionalism, discretion and awareness of others.

Competencies:

• Team worker: you will consider others and be ready to help and support.
• Ambitious: for yourself and Peridot Partners to succeed and be successful.
• Resilient and tenacious: you don’t give up and are able to learn and grow.
• Accountable: you take responsibility and focus on high standards.
• Initiative: you take the opportunity to lead where you can.
• Flexible: you adapt to priorities and problems as required.
• Customer Focused: you are focused on the needs of others.
• Proactive: you strive for results without prompting and aim to over-deliver on expectations.
• Positive, energetic and enthusiastic.

Reference ID: Peridot Partners – Executive Assistant (Education Practice)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £22,000.00 per year

Reference ID: Peridot Partners – Executive Assistant (Education Practice)

Application Deadline: 02/03/2022

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £22,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Yes