Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant role is an essential corporate role that supports senior leadership to be effective in their roles. The role is designed to support members of senior leadership (Executive Directors / Directors) to deliver their roles in an organised way by providing a high-quality support service to assigned Director(s).

This role sits within the Homeownership Directorate, a key delivery directorate of Homes England and supports the Director of Help to Buy. The post holder will be part of a small but mighty team dedicated to providing exceptional support.

A bit about you…

You would be a talented and enthusiastic team player with the ability to quickly develop good rapport with other Executive Assistants who support senior colleagues across the business. This role is incredibly varied, challenging, and exciting.

We are looking for someone who has the following key skills and knowledge:

1. Excellent organisation skills with ability to anticipate and show initiative.

2. Resilience to adapt to ever changing priorities and demands, demonstrating knowledge and professionalism to support leaders to achieve outcomes

3. Excellent administration skills, ability to communicate clearly, orally and in writing with good attention to detail

4. Ability to work at pace and with multiple priorities

5. Effective time management skills

6. Stakeholder management skills with demonstrable initiative, proactivity and engagement with business

7. Political sensitivity, and the ability to exercise appropriate discretion, tact, diplomacy, confidentiality and judgement on issues of significance and importance, particularly when dealing with officials at the highest level

8. Ability to build rapport and trust with senior leaders

9. Advanced digital skills, with knowledge and experience of a range of software applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The ability to produce high quality documents and presentations

Who are we?

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.

We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds, and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we are building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen

What we offer...

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We will support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of employee networks also inspire an inclusive culture and are there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices (or at home!)