Office Support Administrator / Personal Assistant - One year fixed term contract for Maternity Cover

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Job Share (part time working Tuesday, Wednesbury and Thursday - 8 hours per day 8:30am - 5:00pm)

£18,000 Pro-Rata + benefits

Company

Our client, EDL Energy (UK) is part of EDL Energy, an Australian based clean and remote energy group with 983MW distributed assets across Australia, US, Canada, UK and Greece. Its landfill and coal gas plants in Australia, US, UK and Greece abate 13 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide, which would be the equivalent of taking 3.8 million cars off the road. The UK business operates and manages 10 UK based landfill gas sites and 1 in Greece to power reciprocating gas generators and produce electricity for export to the National Grid.

We are now searching for an effective Office Support Administrator / Personal Assistant who can provide administrative support across their business functions and senior management. This will be required as a job share opportunity (Tuesday-Thursday) for a fixed term contract of one year. You will be a highly organised administrator and planner and possess excellent Microsoft skills. You will be given ownership and accountability in ensuring business practices, processes and procedures are followed to best practice.

Role

You will support the Senior Management team in their activities by providing PA duties including confidential and data sensitive administrative support, diary management, travel management, minute taking, preparation of key reports and documents for the UK/European operations. Other key areas of responsibility include;

- Being the first point of contact and an ambassador for the company for visitors and business partners.
- Supporting the Commercial Finance Team such as; providing purchasing administration related activities and centralised stock functions; co-ordination and communications with centralised functions; assisting with administrative UK IT requirements; Expenses and credit card collation and preparation for accounts processing.
- Supporting the Environmental Compliance Manager with co-ordination and documentation.
- Supporting H&S Manager on documentation and reporting.
- Documentation coordinator including all standard forms and templates, policies and SharePoint maintenance and version control.
- Supporting HR function as and when required.
- Other ad hoc duties as and when requested.

Person

As an individual you will be able to demonstrate that you are organised, self-motivated and possesses the drive and desire to take on new tasks and accountabilities, supporting the team across the business. We are interested in acquiring an Office Administrator or Personal Assistant with at least 3 years` experience who is looking to develop and has the right soft skills and attitude to succeed.

- Happy to work on a job share basis three days a week - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 8.30am to 5pm (days non-negotiable)
- Minimum 3 years` experience in a similar PA / Office Support Administrator role
- A mature individual who is responsible and reliable
- Proficient on Microsoft Office Suite with strong typing skills
- Professionalism and ability to work in an environment with confidential data.
- See-it fix-it attitude and strong team player.
- Ability to communicate easily and effectively with management.
- Committed, self-starter, results driven and can do attitude