Executive Assistant

Contract type: Open ended

Work hours: 35.0 hours per week

The role

The new Schools of Electrical, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering (EEME) and Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering are each looking to recruit a full time Executive Assistant.

The Executive Assistant works closely with the Executive Support Manager to provide high-level executive and administrative support to senior individuals in the academic and professional services teams.

The successful role holder will facilitate office support, events and enabling efficiency in our practices. The role holder will also provide PA support to our School Research Director.

What will you be doing?

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of the new schools within the Engineering faculty.

The post holder will work under the supervision of the Executive Support Manager to ensure key activities are managed and delivered on time and will provide high-quality administrative and executive support to senior academics in one of the school.
 
You will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating a central administration workload; supporting committee meetings, induction and recruitment processes, communications and events.

You will play a vital role in facilitating the school’s wider administration requirements, across multiple sites.

You should apply if:

You have a proven track record in administration and possess excellent customer service and communication skills.

You will be able to form effective relationships with staff and stakeholders at all levels and must be highly organised, with a flexible, proactive, and supportive approach to work, with a friendly and positive disposition.
 
To thrive in this role, you will need to be a great team player, have a can-do attitude and you will have excellent attention to detail to maintain progress across multiple workstreams.

Additional information

For informal queries please contact Donna Exon-Bartlett (donna.exon-bartlett@bristol.ac.uk).

To find out more about what it's like to work in the Faculty of Engineering, and how the Faculty supports people to achieve their potential, please see our staff blog:

engineeringincludesme.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Interviews are anticipated to be held on 20^th December 2023.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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