EA/Communications Assistant

EA/Communications Assistant - London.

We are looking for an outstanding EA/Communications Assistant who is a graduate or graduate calibre individual to support in a highly successful boutique executive search firm and provide key assistance to an entrepreneurial founder and wider business (in total 5), based in the City working 3 days onsite and 2 from home, 9.00 - 6.00pm with some flex on occasion.

The company are exciting and dynamic and are leaders in their specialist recruitment field, handling global briefs with key focus on the US and Europe and are a close knit team of search consultants led by their founder to provide a seamless service to their cutting edge clients who include VC and tech businesses.

We are looking for a friendly, uplifting candidate who can work independently and is a natural team player and ambassador for the founder when he is travelling and who can develop exceptional internal and external relationships with stakeholders.

The office is super friendly and everyone is striving to achieve the same goal.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Working as the right hand to the entrepreneurial Founder of the business on a 1:1 basis, providing both corporate and personal work - 80/20 split.
• Diary management for the Founder.
• Work closely with the Founder on special projects involving setting up business plans, timeline and logistics around execution.
• Acting as first port of call for the business, handling inbound enquiries.
• Expense management for the Founder.
• Maintain office calendar for key tasks and events.
• Providing back up PA/administration support to the wider team of 4.
• Arranging travel and visas as required for the Founder and other team members.
• Video editing of podcasts (full training will be given, but experience would be ideal).
• Organisational duties around office infrastructure including issuing contracts.
• Vendor management, dealing with ad hoc facilities tasks.
• Updating tender proposals (full training will be given).
• Assisting with the organisation of PR campaigns.
• Respond to press via telephone and email.
• Attending PR events with Founder.
• Organise team lunches, dinners and socials. (Office event arranging).
• Deal with candidate administration and coding.
• Producing powerpoint presentations.
• Handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Update CRM system.
• Zoom/Linked In - Utilising both applications to the fullest.
• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a candidate who enjoys a varied role and is happy and confident around all things tech and Linked In, plus has outstanding interpersonal skills to become the organisational hub of the office with excellent grammar and a keen interest in the goals of the business and an ability and knowledge around marketing tools and social media would be a benefit.

Apply today for immediate screening. This is such an exciting role for a candidate who is tech savvy and relishes being the organiser and lynch pin in a boutique environment and is also happy to cope with peaks and troughs and will develop their role and be focused on the goals of the business, but also has a great sense of humour and can muck in and enjoy their job, quickly becoming an integral part of this amazing team.