AMS PSR

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for a Personal Assistant - Inside IR35 for a 6 month contract based Remote (Occasional travel for key meetings and events)

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

Personal Assistant - Executive Leadership Team

The position provides strategic support along with their administrative support to ELT. Using strategic knowledge and understanding to optimise the effectiveness of the Executive Leaders by working in partnership, providing a professional, proactive ELT assistant service. This role involves reviewing incoming information to identify and highlight critical details (such as decisions, reports, and issues) that may require attention, ensuring that their strategic knowledge is effectively communicated to the Executive Leaders. Ultimately, this ensures that Executive Leaders can focus on their priorities and drive organisational success.

Key relationships

• Has frequent contact with Executive Leaders, Senior Leadership Team and Wider Leadership Team
• Liaises with other teams within the Homes England as required e.g. HR, finance, legal, risk, IT and any other corporate functions.
• On behalf of the Executive Director builds and maintains credible relationships both internally and externally to Homes England.
• Will establish, manage and maintain relationships with key strategic stakeholders and partners.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Personal Assistant would be to:

• Be the central point of contact and ‘gatekeeper’ for the Executive Director’s schedule, managing diary appointments flexibly to accommodate changing priorities. Proactively monitoring the Executive Director’s inbox, ensuring routine inquiries are addressed with relevant managers and keeping the Director informed of important matters needing timely attention.
• Handle incoming requests with speed, accuracy, and confidentiality, effectively managing priorities and deadlines to meet commitments. Identifying and offering support to quickly draw governance issues to resolution, escalating where appropriate to do so.
• Responsible for drafting and formatting reports, letters, and publications; preparing presentations; ensuring timely readiness of meeting paper packs with key decision points are highlighted for their attention as required by Director
• Collating and disseminating content to stakeholders; and reviewing meeting minutes to track future meeting dates and relevant conferences while organising necessary cover for meetings.

Essential:

• Proven experience supporting senior executives/ELT level. Demonstrable experience providing high-level administrative and strategic support to Executive Directors or senior leadership in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills. Ability to manage complex diaries, competing priorities, and tight deadlines with a high degree of accuracy and flexibility.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills. Confidence in engaging with senior leaders and external partners, building credible and professional working relationships across functions.
• Advanced communication and information management skills. Ability to review, interpret and summarise complex information, highlighting key risks, decisions and actions for leadership attention.
• High level of discretion and confidentiality. Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information with integrity, professionalism and sound judgement.
• Excellent written skills and documentation expertise. Strong capability in drafting reports, preparing presentations, and producing high-quality meeting packs with clear decision points.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Homes England guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

Homes England guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".