Role: Personal Assistant

Location: Buxton (Hybrid Working)
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000
Hours: 35 Hours Per Week
Working Pattern: Hybrid (2 Days Office / 3 Days Home)
Flexibility: Flexible Working Patterns Available
DBS Requirement: Enhanced DBS Check Required

The Opportunity

A highly organised and proactive Personal Assistant is required to support a senior leadership team within a well-established, values-led organisation based in Buxton.

This is a varied and rewarding position offering the opportunity to play a key role in executive support, governance coordination and project management. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll help ensure organisational priorities remain on track, support board and committee activity, and contribute to the successful delivery of strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key point of contact for senior leaders, board members and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Coordinate Board, Committee and Senior Leadership Team meetings, including agenda preparation, meeting papers, minute-taking and action tracking.
• Provide high-level executive and administrative support to senior stakeholders.
• Lead and coordinate a range of organisational projects and initiatives, ensuring successful delivery.
• Support the delivery of organisational priorities and monitor progress against agreed objectives and deadlines.
• Maintain governance systems, records and processes, ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare high-quality reports, presentations, briefing papers and professional correspondence.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, board members, partners and external stakeholders.
• Handle highly confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes and ways of working.
• Ensure actions arising from meetings, projects and organisational decisions are progressed and completed on time.

Essential Experience

• Experience supporting senior leaders, executive teams, directors or boards.
• Experience coordinating meetings, preparing agendas, taking minutes and tracking actions.
• Experience managing projects, initiatives or organisational priorities from planning through to completion.
• Experience organising and delivering meetings, events, conferences or stakeholder engagement activities.
• Experience preparing high-quality reports, presentations, briefing papers and correspondence for senior stakeholders.
• Experience handling confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
• Experience maintaining governance records, policies, procedures and organisational documentation.

• Experience improving systems, processes or ways of working.

Essential Skills

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong project coordination and project management abilities.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to analyse information and identify key themes, risks and issues.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to use initiative.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
• Understanding of governance, GDPR, confidentiality and safeguarding responsibilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.