PA to Director of Education and SEND
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PA to Director of Education and SEND
Role Responsibility
The Education and SEN Directorate at Kent County Council has an exciting opportunity providing Personal Assistant support to the Director of Education and SEN. You will provide an effective and coordinated Personal Assistant service to support the Director and ensure delivery of their duties in a high level and fast paced environment.
As part of your role, you will undertake complex diary management, arranging and facilitating appointments for the Director and Senior Management Team to ensure attendance at meetings and events is managed effectively and agendas, minutes, briefings, supporting papers etc. are distributed within agreed timescales.
You will need to demonstrate excellent organisation and communication skills, be able to proactively manage your time and prioritise your workload effectively, whilst responding to urgent requests and deadlines, identify issues that need to be resolved.
You will be dealing with extensive volumes of highly sensitive data with complete confidentiality. Managing all correspondence to ensure appropriate responses are made within acceptable timescales.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This is a permanent 37 hour per week full-time position based at Sessions House but will also involve home working.
Contact Details
For further information please contact Kirsty Bianco via email on kirsty.bianco@kent.gov.uk
About the Company
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.