• Job description

    Salary: up to £29,757 per annum (plus comprehensive benefits)

    Working hour: 37

    Closing date: 23 January 2024

    Location: Eastleigh

    Your new role

    Are you a proactive, dedicated, resilient and highly organised individual? We have an exciting new opportunity for a Personal Assistant to join our team!

    Reporting to the Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), you’ll play a key role in supporting, prioritising and providing administrative support to the Directors by carrying out a range of admin duties including note taking and diary management. Excellent organisation skills, time management and the ability to prioritise a busy workload will all be essential.

    You’ll not only work closely with the Executive Assistant/Personal Assistant team, but also work collaboratively with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders making first class communication skills (written and verbal) a must in building effective working relationships quickly.

    You may also be required to support other colleagues and share ideas on how we can make our administrative processes and systems more efficient. Remember, we don’t want to do things how they’ve always been done, we want to do them even better!

    This is a fantastic opportunity to make a big difference in how the office runs, so if you’re self-motivated, enthusiastic and can’t wait to get your teeth into a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

    Who we are

    Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage over 50,000 homes and various community assets, serving 114,000 customers. Silva Homes joined Abri in October 2023 making the group a financially stronger and more resilient organisation. To help deliver our services Abri work with 36 local authorities and 63 different parliamentary constituencies alongside partners in our community.

    Silva will operate as a separate legal entity under the Abri Group umbrella before fully transferring in 2024.

    We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?

    We’re investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.

      • We’re delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it’s needed most
      • We’re investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone

     

    As we grow, we’re re-establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with our operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.

    More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at http://www.abri.co.uk.

    About you

    We’ve all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It’s these shared values that bring us together as one team.

    Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.

    If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you’re on to a winner and we’d love to hear from you!

    Be yourself

    Abri is committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We want our colleagues to bring their individual differences, life experiences and knowledge into the workplace and we welcome their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.

    Requirements

      • High levels of literacy and numeracy.
      • Good attention to detail.
      • The ability to multitask efficiently and effectively.
      • Extensive calendar and diary management
      • Coordinating schedules, meetings and appointments
      • Proficient use of Microsoft Office packages specifically, WORD, Excel and PowerPoint.
      • Energetic and enthusiastic with excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
      • Communicate effectively and professionally with internal colleagues and external customers to encourage long-term relationships. This includes both verbal and written communication.
      • Highly self-motivated. Effectively manage your own workload.
      • Strong team player, promoting team working and sharing good practice.
      • Provide confidentiality on all matters related to the Directors, Executive team and Heads of Service.
      • Be curious about your business area, with a good understanding of how it fits within Abri’s strategy and ethos.
      • Demonstrate our values & behaviours.