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Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive

Islington & Shoreditch Housing Association (ISHA) • Full-time • London, England, GB • 2d ago

Part time Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Hours: 17.5 hours a week (ideally across four or five days, and withing ISHA’s core working hours of 10am-4pm)
Contract: Permanent
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
Salary: £19,500 pro rata (£39,000 full time equivalent)

You’ll be the first port of call for many internal colleagues, Board members and external stakeholders, with our Chief Executive active as part of many London and national fora. Great customer service, exemplary diary management, and a commitment to ISHA’s values are a must.

Some of the key responsibilities for this role will include:

Managing the CEO inbox, prioritising emails for responses etc, ensuring delegating task are completed. Prioritise enquiries and requests whilst troubleshooting conflicts and making judgements and recommendations to ensure smooth day to day arrangements.
Manage the Chief Executive’s diary ensuring that Chief Executive is fully briefed.
Build and maintain trustworthy relationships with the Chief Executive’s key stakeholders and colleagues. To communicate and liaise with sensitively but confidently with people from all levels, both internally and externally including board members, executive directors, Senior Management Team, the local authority and other housing association partners and residents.
Oversee the coordination of information to assist the Chief Executive in preparing for key meetings with both internal and external stakeholders.
Timetabling key discussions in the business cycle.
Collating and publishing Leadership team papers and tracking actions.
Liaising with Third party providers to ensure the smooth running of contracts/projects.
Processing of invoices for the Chief Executive with related spend.
Playing a key role in Chief Executive led initiatives to ensure the timely and successful deliver, for example aways days and or our staff conference.
Prepare expenses and other financial matters in line with our financial regulations.
Other duties that help us deliver first rate services to our residents and customers internal and external, for example minute taking time to time.
Organise any travel arrangements.

Don’t feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At ISHA, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited by this role but your experience doesn’t quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.

About ISHA

We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for own our people.

Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.

We can’t be a brilliant landlord if we don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?

If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do submit an application.

Staff Benefits

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.

This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.

Deadline: 10am on Monday 11 November 2024
Interview: Tuesday 19 November 2024 in person at 102 Blackstock Road N4 2DR.
Please note: We can only able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be redirected to complete your application for this position.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.

Asking for adjustments

ISHA is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us.

No agencies please.

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