Personal Assistant to Director / Deputy Director(s) (Range C)

Sift Criteria

Candidates – Please note, you will be asked to give evidence in your application of how you meet these criteria.

Required Behaviours, Experience and Technical Skills:

1. Behaviour: Making Effective Decisions - Ability to work autonomously with little or no supervision, exercising sound judgement and taking the initiative and good time management to make effective decisions under pressure.

2. Behaviour: Managing a Quality Service - Good personal organisation and attention to detail.  Ability to demonstrate effective knowledge and records management.  Keeping Directors/Deputy Directors informed of any changes to diaries as soon as possible.  Deliver high quality administration support to teams and wider group.

3. Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing - Able communicator and capable influencer, comfortable and effective in communicating with senior staff and high profile external stakeholders, and using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint.

4. Behaviour: Working Together - Excellent team working skills and people influencing skills and the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with others

Complaints Process

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email: hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.