Executive Assistant to Directors of Income Generation

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied.

If that sounds like the impact you would like to have in your professional career, and you believe you have the skills, knowledge and experience to be successful in this role, you could be our new Executive Assistant reporting the two Directors who are responsible Income generation and Grant Management here at AIUK.

About the role

This role will ensure that the two Directors working under the organisations Income Generation (Fundraising) Enabler have the right personal support in organising their departments and fulling their obligations in reporting, performance and business planning to Boards and Committees. The Directors are part AIUK's Senior Management Team.

This is a new role at AIUK focusing on our important work in Fundraising and Grant Management so as a successful candidate you will support the two Directors to operate as effective leaders of their two Directorates. This will include a range of administrative and support activities, including the organisation of meetings and workshops, supporting the organisation on small fundraising events, keeping an up-to-date calendar of key internal and relevant external events, ensuring that staff in the department are completing monthly operational planning boards (Trello) and that SharePoint sites are updated appropriately, finally assisting in preparing monthly data summary reports, minute-taking of meetings, and coordinating any Board sub-committees managed by these members of the Senior Management Team.

The Executive Assistant will be integral to supporting the Directors to provide positive leadership, by ensuring that their departments have the right administrative systems in place, and representing them when liaising with internal and external contacts when providing organisational and administrative services for committees and meetings.

More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You're well organised and skilled in using, maintaining and developing administrative systems.
• You can manage your workload effectively with priorities from multiple stakeholders
• You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
• You are confident in providing organisational and administrative services for committees and meetings.
• You also have good relationship management skills and can deal well with ambiguity in your work.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro-rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.

Apply for this role

This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, AIUK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

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