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Personal Assistant (PA) to the Director

Employer
EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (GB)
Salary
£23,144 - £27,131 per annum
Closing date
28 Aug 2022

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Job Details

Job title: Personal Assistant (PA) to the Director - Full Time, Permanent

Job reference: 0000018349

Date posted: 05/08/2022

Application closing date: 28/08/2022

Salary: £23,144 - £27,131 per annum (Grade 3)

Package: Excellent benefits package including attractive pension and a minimum of 36 days holiday

Contractual hours: 36.25

Basis: Full Time

Job description

Personal Assistant (PA) to the Director & Department Administrator – Full Time, Permanent

Edinburgh Napier University is a place buzzing with people who continually work to recognise everyone’s potential.

We are proud to be the #1 Modern University in Scotland because we truly believe that we can make a difference, by nurturing and encouraging you to reach beyond what you know and helping you to get to where you want to be.

Edinburgh Napier University is the ‘home of the difference makers’ and we need your support in fulfilling that promise. We are looking for a PA to the Director and Department Administrator to support our Director and Marketing and External Relations department on a full time, permanent basis, which is a critical role to ensuring we deliver our strategic vision.

Our Marketing and External Relations department, based at Sighthill campus, is responsible for building our reputation, promoting our academic excellence, sharing our student experience, highlighting our research and innovation, driving our fundraising ambition, and ensuring we engage with our alumni.

Our goal is to be a well-respected team of experts which delivers results, exceeds expectations, and provides an outstanding service to all our audiences by delivering communications, marketing partnerships and development activity which attracts the brightest minds engaging all of our audiences with our extraordinary work.

How will you make a difference? 

You will use your excellent organisation skills and secretarial experience to provide administrative and confidential PA support to the Director of Marketing and External Relations. You will proactively manage the Director’s diary, arranging travel and accommodation, and organising meetings/events.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with award winning areas of marketing, communications, creative, development and alumni, who are all responsible for providing support to achieve the ambitions of the University and delivering our strategic vision, to support in booking meetings, diary co-ordination and support in the department planning and budgeting processes.

You’ll get the opportunity work alongside and learn from experienced staff including branding and social media experts, events specialists, marketers, alumni professionals and various other creative, talented people from all over the world!

In addition to working with our ambitious and upbeat Marketing & External Relations department, you’ll be able to use your excellent communications skills to also provide back up support to Edinburgh Napier Development Trust, Campaign Boards and the University Chancellors.

For more details on this exciting opportunity, click here for a full role profile and comprehensive list of duties and requirements.

What we’ll need from you

Qualified with an HNC/HND or relevant demonstrable experience, you will have: 

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate effectively and build relationships with staff at senior levels.
  • Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own workload in a fast-paced environment with competing demands and priorities.
  • IT skills including word-processing, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and databases in Microsoft Office software.

What’s in it for you? 

Salary: Grade 3 £23,144 - £27,131 per annum

Edinburgh Napier University is a forward-thinking institution, home to forward-thinking people, inspired by the world around us. Join us and you will find that we offer support and recognition wherever due, as well as fantastic benefits such as an attractive pension with employer contributions of 20.8% and a minimum of 36 days holiday.

There are professional development opportunities, discounted access to onsite sports facilities and a wide range of other staff discounts. For more information about our wide range of benefits, click here.

Additional Information

Closing Date: Sunday 28 August @ 11:59pm

Interview Date: Wednesday 7 or Thursday 8 September 

Edinburgh Napier is committed to creating an environment where everyone feels proud, confident, challenged and supported and are holders of Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Diversity Champion status. Please see here for more information.

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Living wage

Company info
Location
219 COLINTON ROAD
EDINBURGH
MIDLOTHIAN
EH14 1DJ
United Kingdom

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