Business Administration / PA Apprentice

Business Administration / PA Apprentice
Salary: £26,000per year

Exeter Sports Academy Limited and Penguin Consultants (UK) Limited are looking for a reliable, professional and flexible Business Administration / PA Apprentice to assist primarily the Managing Director in all duties. The successful applicant will need to be flexible in adapting to significantly varying work on a day-to-day basis.

Responsibilities of the job include:

• Answering telephone calls
• Email Management
• Maintaining diaries
• Arranging appointments
• Taking messages
• Typing/word processing
• Fling
• Organising meetings
• Minute taking
• Using a variety of software packages
• Managing databases
• Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems
• Liaising with staff, suppliers and clients
• Preparing letters, presentations and reports
• Research tasks
• Greeting and welcoming guests and visitors

Skills, interests and qualities

• Excellent organisational skills
• Good written and spoken communication skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• A calm and professional manner
• An ability to carry out several tasks at the same time
• Excellent computer and administration skills
• A flexible and adaptable approach to work
• The ability to use your own initiative
• Tact and discretion, for dealing with confidential information.
• Confident with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

This is a varied and exciting role in a personal assistant capacity to the Managing Director. You will get involved in a wealth of projects, management and administration based duties. Shadowing the MD will result in the successful applicant undertaking various business tasks.

37 hours per week to include one day a week attending college during term time.