PA/Office Manager

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About Us

Digital Barriers is a revolutionary video technology provider that empowers individuals, organizations, and society with instant insights to make mission-critical decisions. Through our patented AI-based video codec and secure edge platform, we help customers in various markets - including city law enforcement and public safety, industry, transportation, defence, events, retail, healthcare, and hospitality - unlock the full potential of real-time video.

For 10 years, we've worked with governments, military, and specialist law enforcement in the defence sector alongside numerous public and private-sector clients. Our patented AI-based codec has been proven at scale - keeping troops safe in Afghanistan and Iraq, deploying across NATO, and securing presidential inaugurations, Olympic Games, and royal events.

Today, we partner with major global network operators, including Vodafone and AT&T, to deliver reliable real-time video over cellular and other transmission technologies that offer up to 90% bandwidth cost reduction without sacrificing quality in low-latency environments - ensuring our customers have a 360-degree view of their operations at all times.

For over 10 years we've delivered live cellular video solutions for global government organizations. Our unique patented video compression requires 50-90% less bandwidth than any other cellular video streaming, is end-to end encrypted and delivers real time edge analytics.

Our technology is now available for you across our EdgeVis and CloudVis platforms.

Find out more about Digital Barriers from our website and LinkedIn page

The Position:

We are seeking a PA/Office Manager to support our CEO and manage our Glasgow and Gloucester offices. In this role you will handle diary management duties for our remotely working CEO while ensuring our offices, particularly the Glasgow location-our Engineering Centre of Excellence-operate flawlessly. Your responsibilities will extend to adhoc support of a senior management team that spends time at the Glasgow office, and general administration support, making every day different and dynamic.

You will thrive in this role if you are highly adaptable, can manage multiple priorities, and possess exceptional communication skills. Based in Glasgow, this position offers a hybrid work arrangement, requiring a minimum of three days on-site and two days working from home. This opportunity is ideal for a proactive individual eager to contribute to and grow within a leading technology company, ensuring both operational efficiency and strategic support across the board.

Key Responsibilities:

PA:

• Provide direct support to the CEO effective use of their time by planning and managing their schedules through diary management.
• Processing the CEO's expenses in line with the company policy.
• Co-ordinate internal and external meetings for the executive team when required.
• Liaise with clients and business guests.

Office Manager

• Liaise with building management to ensure H&S standards are adhered, and workplace occupancy management.
• Implement and update of procedures and processes to ensure all necessary documentation is produced and compliant with ISO standards.
• Act as H&SE administrator.
• Implement and maintain a clear desk policy & ensure high standard of housekeeping are held.
• Liaise with facility management vendors, including cleaning, catering and security services.
• Manage the WeWork account.
• Carry out office management tasks such postal and courier requirements, stationary orders, coffee, tea, office passes, monitor office expenditure.
• Support the Engineering team with onsite events such as retrospectives, demonstrations etc.
• Arranging Engineering and company and socials events. Where required booking group travel and group meetings.

Key Responsibilities:

• A minimum of two years, supporting a CEO in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• A background in a quick paced organization with multiple international geographical locations.
• Highly skilled in MS office.
• Exceptional organizational skills and managing conflicting priorities.
• The ability to work independently and work under pressure at times to handle a wide range of activities.
• Maintain complete confidentiality on all business matters.
• An upbeat professional demeanor, while being tenacious and focused.
• Reliable, trustworthy and ethical attitude at all times.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

All our benefits are accessible immediate on joining the company.

• We offer our people a great hybrid working environment across all our office locations.
• Annual leave of 25 days plus bank holiday and the opportunity to buy up to 5 more days each holiday year.
• Discretionary annual group bonus scheme
• A group pension scheme to help you prepare for the future the way you want to
• We enrol all our people into our:
  • Group Life policy also known as death in service at 4x basic annual salary.
  • Group Income Protection where you and your family members also get access to total health and wellbeing support.
  • Private medical insurance where we will provide you with cover so you can be in the best shape to perform.
• We offer a cycle to work scheme.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and UNUM Help@HandService where you get cashback, saving, discount codes and lots of useful health, wellbeing and financial resources.

Equal Opportunities

Digital Barriers are committed toequality ofopportunity for all employees and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

If you have a disability, please advise the recruiter or hiring manager if you require any adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

Security Clearance

UK Security Clearance: Successful candidates may be required to meet security requirements for this role before they can be appointed. You must have rights to work in the UK, and able to gain UK security clearances. Candidates will be required to have or obtain security vetting to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) level as part of the recruitment offer process.