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Senior Personal Assistant (PA) (Ascent Flight Training)

Employer
Babcock
Location
Bristol, GB, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
31 Mar 2019

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Clearance Level
SC, None / Undisclosed
Sector
Defence, Engineering
Job Type
Permanent

Job Details

Contract - Permanent
Location - Bristol
 
The purpose of the role is to manage and deliver comprehensive personal assistant support to the MD and the Leadership Team Directors. The role will have one direct report, which will require coordination and workload management to ensure the delivery of the necessary support to the MD and LT Directors.
 
To apply please visit Ascents website directly at - https://ascentflighttraining.com/senior-personal-assistant-pa/
Key Responsibilities
  • First point of contact for the MD and LT Directors
  • Manage via the Ascent values and build the reputation of Ascent
  • Line management of a Personal Assistant to deliver effective and efficient personal assistant services for the MD and LT Directors
  • Management of the LT schedules to include meetings, travel and expenses
  • Management of Ascent Proprietary, Supply Chain Proprietary and UK MOD Classified Data
  • Effective relationship management with key internal and external stakeholders
  • Management of internal and external correspondence, production and distribution of Ascent materials to include Board Packs and Programme Reviews and management of local office consumables

 
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential:

  • >3 years PA experience at MD level
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop and manage stakeholder relationships within a commercial business setting at senior levels 
  • Highly proficient in MSOffice and other COTS business products
  • Ability to manage complex and competing priorities under time pressures
  • Ability to self-manage
  • Ability to first line manage in a collaborative coaching environment

Desirable:
  • Leadership of personal assistant team(s)
  • Experience of large scale UK Defence programmes and organisations
     

Benefits
In return, we will provide you with a generous benefits package including the equivalent to 25 days annual leave, a Defined Contribution Pension plan, access to a range of flexible benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme, and Private Medical Insurance.

Our Values
One Ascent Team

Ability and evidence of being a role model of Ascent values:

Responsive
  • Hours not days; days not weeks
  • Giving the best possible answer every time
     
Respectful
  • Listening to everyone's views
  • Professional & supportive to all our partners and colleagues

Safe
  • Total Safety: Airsafety, HSSE & Airworthiness
  • Immediate escalation of issues

Security
Successful candidates will need to satisfy Ministry of Defence Security requirements and may be required to complete a medical assessment.

Conflicts of Interest
In order to discharge Ascent's primary UKMFTS duty to the MOD to identify and avoid or mitigate conflicts of interest in conjunction with our activities as MOD's Training Service Partner, Ascent must ensure that no employee or secondee working for Ascent is materially restricted by any conflict of interest when carrying out duties and functions on its behalf. Therefore, candidates who are currently working for or have been employed during the previous 2 years by organisations such as MOD, Babcock, Lockheed Martin or any related group entity or any organisation bidding into the UKMFTS contract should note that Ascent reserves the right to request further information in relation to that candidate's current or previous employment history and/or take other appropriate steps to ensure Ascent's full compliance with its primary obligation. Any concerns you have should be discussed with the Ascent HR representative prior to submitting of a Curriculum Vitae.
 
In order to operate the Ascent Flight Training recruitment system, we will collect and store the personal information that you submit. Please read the following privacy statement to understand how Ascent Flight Training uses and protects the information you provide.
Privacy Statement for Job Applicants
 
 
To apply please visit Ascents website directly at - https://ascentflighttraining.com/senior-personal-assistant-pa/

Company

For more than a century, Babcock has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering support.

Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, infrastructure management, and specialist training, we help customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear.

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