Personal Assistant (PA)

South West Community Chaplaincy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A Rocha UK is seeking a temporary Personal Assistant to support the Chief Executive Officer. The role focuses on ensuring the smooth running of the CEO’s office, handling confidential information with discretion, and coordinating internal and external communications.

The successful candidate will bring proactivity, organizational skills, and strong people skills to work as part of the leadership team. The position is office-based and covers a temporary leave period from the end of October.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO with administrative tasks and diary management.
• Act as essential point of contact for staff and external contacts.
• Assist with coordination of internal and external engagements and events.

Job description

A Rocha UK is the only national Christian conservation charity in the UK. Our mission is to mobilise Christians and churches to care for the natural world. We do this currently through a number of programmes reaching different parts of the Christian community: Eco Church for local churches, Partners in Action, facilitating conservation efforts by Christian land managers, Wild Christian, supporting individuals and households to act on nature, including by campaigning, and our programme supporting Christian environmental leaders. We also contribute to several networks - Christian and secular - involved in both practical conservation and climate change work, as well as research, policy and campaigning.

A Rocha UK’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Andy Atkins, leads the staff body and manages the Senior Management Team. He also plays an important external role, representing the organisation in speaking, writing, fundraising and building links with high level church and other figures. The CEO is office based but frequently absent for external engagements, so that the PA is an essential contact point for staff and external contacts.

The PA role makes a major contribution to the efficient running of the organisation by supporting the CEO in his leadership of the organisation internally, and representation externally. The successful candidate will combine proactivity and good organisational skills, with good people skills, team working and discretion in handling confidential information.

The successful candidate for the temporary PA post will be covering for the permanent PA who is scheduled to take extended temporary leave from the end of October.