Team Secretary - maternity cover

Churchill Living Ltd; Ringwood; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retirement living company in Ringwood is seeking a Team Secretary for a 12-month maternity cover. The ideal candidate will support the Managing Director with administrative tasks, manage a variety of communications and documentation, and maintain efficient office operations. Strong organizational skills and prior experience as a Secretary or PA are essential. The position offers various employee benefits and the chance to work in a growing company.

Benefits

Life Assurance

Day off on your birthday

Health Screening

Eye Care Reimbursement

Land Introduction Bonus

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and personable individual.
• Ability to manage a varied and busy workload.
• Experience with databases.

Responsibilities

• Manage a busy workload and ensure deadlines are met.
• Organize Public Consultations and collate application documentation.
• Handle calls, invoices, and manage diaries.

Skills

Proven experience as a Secretary or PA

First-class organisation skills

IT skills (MS Office)

Effective communication

Attention to detail

Job description

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Team Secretary - maternity cover, Ringwood

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Client:

Churchill Living Ltd

Location:

Ringwood, United Kingdom

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Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

• Job Title: Team Secretary
• Team: Planning Issues, reporting to Managing Director
• Contract: 12 month fixed term maternity cover
• Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday
• Location: Ringwood, Hampshire

About the role

The Churchill Retirement Group are recruiting for a Team Secretary to assist the Managing Director of our Planning Issues team based in our stunning Head Office in Ringwood. This position is offered as a 12 month fixed term maternity contract.

As the Team Secretary, you’ll have the opportunity to liaise with a wide range of internal and external contacts. You’ll keep on top of a busy and varied workload, ensuring all deadlines are met and workload schedules are managed. The Secretary is responsible for organizing Public Consultations and collation of planning application and planning appeal documentation.

The Secretary’s additional responsibilities include:

• Handling all incoming calls quickly and efficiently
• Invoice management, raising purchase orders and completing the purchasing process using our procurement system, COINS
• Public Consultation arrangement
• Receiving and handling incoming post and collating outgoing post in time for daily collection
• Typing letters and minutes in accordance with the company standard formats
• Assisting in compilation and binding of reports
• Diary management for the Managing Director of Planning Issues
• Booking meetings, travel and accommodation for team members
• Maintaining contact lists and updating spreadsheets

Hours of work are 9.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 9.00 to 5.00pm on Friday, with one hour for lunch.

About you

As our new Secretary, you will be a self-motivated, personable individual who enjoys working as part of a busy team. It’s important that you have proven experience as a Secretary or PA and first class organisation skills. You’ll be approachable with a friendly ‘can do’ attitude and pride yourself on your attention to detail and ability to prioritise. You’ll have all round IT skills that include MS Office and experience of databases.

Flexibility and effective communication are key in order to manage a varied and busy workload.

Ideally your circumstances will dovetail with our requirements to cover up to 12 months maternity leave.

How you’ll be rewarded

• Life Assurance
• Day off on your birthday
• Health Screening
• Eye Care Reimbursement
• Land Introduction Bonus

About us

We are Churchill Retirement Living, the fastest growing company in the UK retirement house building sector and we’re looking for people like you.

We’re a family-run, privately-owned business and we’re going places. We’re proud of what we do, and the people we work with. We have ambitious growth plans for the future, now employing 700 people and growing all the time.

We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality, purpose-built one- and two-bedroom apartments in desirable locations across the UK for those looking for an independent lifestyle in later life. Developments are designed to take away all the hassle and fears that can be experienced by older people and provide security, peace of mind and independence.

We’ve won a host of awards; most recently in 2023 we were ranked in the Sunday Times Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’ and we were the first ever retirement living specialist to be crowned overall ‘Housebuilder of the Year’ by the WhatHouse? Awards.

Join the Churchill familyand be part of an ambitious and successful business who value and appreciate their people. Apply today!

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