Executive Assistant & Office Manager

Happy Days Nurseries & Pre-Schools


Date: 1 week ago
City: Newquay
Contract type: Full time
  • Newquay, UK
  • Posted 2 weeks ago
  • £32,000 GBP / Year

Happy Days Nurseries are seeking an Executive Assistant & Office Manager to join our Central Support Team at our Summercourt Support Centre.

As Executive Assistant and Office Manager, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality personal assistance and administrative support to our Directors, as well as the day-to-day management of our office administration team.

We are seeking someone who has exceptional organisation skills, and meticulous attention to detail, and who has experience in providing personal assistance and administrative support to Senior/Director level colleagues.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Providing full PA and administrative support to the company Directors, and working especially closely with the Managing Director.
  • Management of Director diaries, booking meeting rooms, board meetings and events, appointments and arranging travel / hotels
  • Screening telephone calls, enquiries, complaints and requests, handling or triaging them as appropriate
  • Managing the company car fleet in accordance with the group policy
  • Providing administrative support in meetings, providing documents, and recording minutes
  • Managing the office team to include any training and ongoing support as required.
  • Overseeing the office stationary and welfare budgets
  • Recording and monitoring of any Data Breeches and supporting with SAR requests
  • Updating and filing of company policies and procedures
  • Assisting with company projects, future projects include Data Mapping and centralising the company archiving.

Required Skills And Experience

  • Previous experience within a Personal Assistant or Office Manager role
  • The ability to handle information professionally and confidentially
  • Strong attention to detail, with the ability to multitask, prioritise and adapt in a fast-paced environment
  • Outstanding organisational and time management skills, to meet strict deadlines
  • Great rapport building skills, to build strong relationships with both internal and external customers
  • Competent IT user, with experience of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Pro and SharePoint as well as business software resources.
  • The ability to work independently, making decisions where necessary and to work as part of a wider team
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Benefits

  • Competitive salary of £32,000 per annum
  • 25 days annual leave – plus Bank Holidays
  • 50% Childcare discount to use at any of our nurseries
  • 3 Days Gifted Christmas Closedown
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Our teams, whether in our nurseries or our support centre SHINE, they ensure we are delivering outstanding childcare to every child in our settings every day, this helps to make Happy Days a great place to work. By ensuring we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues, who are representative of the communities within which our nurseries sits gives us the best opportunity to continue to deliver outstanding childcare

“Happy Days Nurseries are committed to the safety and wellbeing of the children in our care, as such the successful post holder will be required to undergo a robust vetting process, including an enhanced DBS Check and Reference History Checks”

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