Your new companyWorking within a well known Higher Education establishment in the Bradford area. Your new roleKey duties include:

• Proactively managing the electronic diary of senior faculty managers, prioritising competing demands, including arranging meetings involving colleagues and senior people (both internal and external to the University), booking suitable venues, resources, refreshments and making travel arrangements
• Where required, managing the inbox of Faculty Managers, categorising emails, highlighting, and bringing forward priorities as well as responding directly and appropriately to queries, which may be confidential and/or highly sensitive.
• Supporting travel arrangements, including devising and managing itineraries and making travel arrangements in line with University purchasing procedures
• Acting as a first point of contact for the Faculty, including meeting and greeting visitors, and ensuring that guests to the Faculty have a positive experience of the University, including quality communications and arranging reimbursement of expenses incurred in visits
• Arranging meetings for a wide range of stakeholders, treating all with sensitivity, confidentiality and professionalism
• Supporting staff with conference bookings and related external activities
• Supporting the organisation, preparation and delivery of Faculty events.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of working in an administrative role
• Experience of using a variety of IT packages to a high standard, including the following: word processing packages, spreadsheets, databases
• Experience of taking minutes and providing information at meetings
• Experience of scheduling meetings on behalf of others

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