Team Administrator

Job Description

Location:

Two Snowhill – Birmingham

Salary:
Base salary c £23,000pa to £27,059pa depending on skills and experience. A flexible benefits fund of 10% is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable.

• Act as first point of contact for the Senior Leader, managing and coordinating the Senior Leaders mailbox, responding to requests for information and escalating requests requiring action to the Senior Leader.
• Manage and coordinate the Senior Leaders calendar of internal and external meetings, including all professional engagements, liaising with other Executive and Senior Leadership Team Personal Assistant’s as required, to ensure effective use of time.
• Gather information, compile reports, and maintain these to support the activities of the Senior Leader.
• Accurately file necessary documentation effectively and maintain the document management system to ensure ease of access.
• Manage all travel requirements and bookings for the Senior Leader within policy and budget.
• Prepare briefing packs, meeting papers and all other documentation, including chasing and co-ordinating agreed actions and responses as required, to ensure meetings run smoothly.
• Format presentations for use in senior management meetings to create clear and high impact presentations.
• Organise Site Visits offsite from beginning to end, ensuring compliance with Health and Safety practices at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

• Organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, allocate and organise appointments and meetings in a logical manner.
• Meeting management - prepare appropriate documentation for meetings.
• Ability to produce clear, understandable, and grammatically correct minutes and documents.
• Computer and IT skills, including usage Microsoft suites, Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
• Communication skills to engage positively and represent the directorate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Relationship building skills with the ability to meet and manage visitors to the directorate and influence across a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Flexible problem solving and dealing with ad-hoc issues whilst also being able to work to specific procedures or protocols.

• Knowledge of executive office and business management.
• Knowledge of board and senior meetings processes.

• Experience of working in a busy executive office, including managing workload and meeting deadlines.
• Experience of handling sensitive and confidential information.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.