Office Manager - Bath - Inside Ir35

Office Manager

Rate - £20 an hour

Duration - 2 Months initially

Location - Bath (On-site)

Ir35 - Inside IR35 (Must use an umbrella company)

The Office Manager is responsible for ensuring timely, initiative-taking, coherent and coordinated administrative support to senior leadership, department-wide activities including coordination of the Leadership Team meetings and ensuring timely, quality reports to committees including the Executive Board.

The main areas of responsibility are ensuring timely, effective, coherent communications to staff and wider university colleagues; efficient and professional support to the CIDO and Senior Leadership Team (SLT); planning and preparation for departmental meetings; effective record keeping and information management to allow easy retrieval and archiving.

• Experience of drafting reports, briefing materials and presentations for a range of audiences including senior managers.
• Experience of collating and analysing qualitative and quantitative data/information.
• Quickly build positive relationships across a range of stakeholders.
• Competent planning and supporting meetings.
• Competent successfully balancing competing priorities and adjusting plans to account for unforeseen challenges.
• Proven experience of supervising or managing and developing an effective team.
• Experience of developing and improving business processes.
• Good influencing and negotiating skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work effectively with staff at all levels including senior executives.
• Excellent reasoning and analytical abilities.
• Deal with confidential and sensitive information with tact and discretion.
• Proven organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise own workload and deliver to agreed deadlines.
• Excellent IT skills including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation applications.
• Able to work independently and proactively.
• Good organisational and record keeping skills.
• Positive, proactive, agile and flexible approach.
• Desire to continually improve and learn new skills.