Executive Assistant in Chelmsford

We are looking for an Executive Assistant to efficiently deliver senior administrative and secretarial support to Delta Housing's Executive Management Team, ensuring the highest standard of service for customers and colleagues. Serve as a primary point of contact for the team, fostering strong internal and external communication connections.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with EA colleagues to provide comprehensive and proactive support to EMT and Committees, managing meeting schedules, agendas, minutes, and related documentation using awareness of business priorities.
• Provide confidential administrative support to EMT including handling correspondence, presentations, administering expenses for EMT and team members’ as well as team members' administrative needs including holiday and sickness.
• Proactively prepare information for committees and the Board, including management reports and follow-up actions.
• Organise and manage EMT's emails, calendars, meetings, and travel arrangements as needed.
• Manage requisitions, invoicing, and payments, ensuring value for money in event planning.

What we are looking for:

• Evidence of providing high level support EA to multiple Directors including diary management, notetaking of formal meetings and providing accurate minutes.
• Exceptional written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to take a flexible approach to proactively prioritise workloads and meet deadlines.
• Ability to use sound judgment and take responsibility for decisions and actions, acting on own initiative, and to cope with challenging situations.
• A team player with strong interpersonal and influencing skills who takes pride in what they do.

Please note the office expectancy of this role is as follows: This role will require you to be based on site initially for a minimum of 4 days a week for a period of training before adopting a more hybrid working structure that works around the diary of whom this role will support.

Benefits:

• The salary for this post will be £38,798 Per Annum.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Healthcare cash plan.
• Robust employee reward and recognition programme.
• Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Volunteering programme.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays, 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year and 1 wellbeing day per annum.
• 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need.
• We operate a hybrid working policy at Delta Housing Ltd.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications or successfully appoint a candidate before the closing date. We encourage early applications to avoid disappointment.

The Company:

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

Our Values:

• We dare to be different and look for opportunities to evolve and experiment. We’re comfortable taking calculated risks and aren’t afraid to fail and learn from our mistakes. We’re confident in our abilities and the contribution we can make whilst being sensitive and responsive to the needs of our people, customers and communities.
• We show our understanding for others in everything we do and continually look for ways we can be helpful. We always assume best intentions and approach each situation with a warm heart. We give our support wherever we can and go out of our way to be kind and considerate to each other and our customers.
• We welcome ideas and opinions that are different from our own and look for ways to bring them into our organisation and work. We value diversity of experience and thought, and we’re proactive in addressing bias or prejudice wherever we find it. We treat everyone fairly and strive to be truly inclusive in every way.
• We’re resolved to do our very best for the people we serve and our employees by being our best every day. We’re resilient in the face of difficulty, finding creative ways to overcome obstacles. We’re resolute in achieving our objectives and persist until we succeed. We’re focused in our pursuit of excellence and don’t compromise on quality.