PA
What is in it for you?
• Provide an interface between internal, external stakeholders and the SRA’s Directors
• Demonstrate your exemplary organisation skills
• Benefit from working as part of a great team
The role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Support PA to provide secretarial and administrative support to 3-4 of the SRA’s Directors. With high profile positions the demands on the Directors’ time are continuous, making diary management one of the most pressing and challenging parts of the role. You will need to remain on top of requests for their time, and use your knowledge, judgment and initiative to ensure their diaries, inboxes and forward plans are managed in the most effective and efficient way. You will organise travel arrangements and bookings, take minutes at meetings, provide support at events and with any project management requirements whilst upholding a high level of discretion and confidentiality at all times.
You will prepare correspondence and documents in good time in readiness for events and meetings, ensuring they know where they need to be and what their schedule looks like each day, acting as the key liaison point for the business. This role will be challenging and it will require energy and flexibility, but it will be extremely rewarding, working with a great team of people within an outstanding organisation.
During 16.30 – 17.00 each day and during periods of annual leave, you will cover the Martin Lane reception. You will meet and greet visitors, answer telephone calls and reset meeting rooms.
What we are looking for
• Resilience
• Excellent communication skills
• Rapport to build successful working relationships
• Ability to prioritise conflicting business needs
To apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter. Please ensure that your CV and covering letter clearly demonstrate how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience requirements of the role.
Candidates who have applied for this role in the last 6 months need not reapply.
Essential
Good secretarial and administrative experience with supporting vocational qualification(s) and/or extensive practical experience
Up to date IT literacy skills/experience of MS Office including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
Excellent interpersonal and customer care skills
Ability to build good, cooperative and successful working relationships with colleagues at all levels
Accurate minute taking skills
Good written and document presentation skills
Good verbal communication skills
Resilience and the ability to work in a busy and constantly changing environment
Ability to maintain confidentiality and to work with discretion at all times
Good prioritisation skill and the ability to manage own workload commitments in line with deadlines and target
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
This opportunity is closed to applicants.