Business Support Specialist

National Treasury Management Agency; Dublin; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is seeking a Business Support Specialist for the ISIF Division in Ireland. You will provide comprehensive administrative, operational and business support to ISIF, ensuring efficient delivery of key activities and maintaining professionalism and discretion in all interactions.

The role requires excellent written and verbal communication, strong organisational skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office, Power BI and SharePoint.

Qualifications

• Preferable: 3rd level qualification
• Experience supporting projects/programme delivery

Responsibilities

• Support ISIF team with documents, reports, and presentations.
• Develop collateral for ISIF ensuring consistent branding.
• Prepare materials for parliamentary questions and FOI requests.
• Lead end-to-end monthly meetings: agendas, minutes, actions.
• Set up workflows for unit committees and boards.
• Manage travel, invoices, staff expenses, and ad-hoc admin.

Skills

Communication skills

English proficiency

Microsoft Office

Power BI

SharePoint

Organisational skills

Prioritisation

Education

3rd level qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office suite

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

Role Profile

Job title Business Support Specialist - ISIF Division Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Reports to Investment Director, ISIF CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS : Wednesday 9th Spetember 2026

Summary of the Business

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) provides asset and liability management services to the Irish Government. It has evolved from a single function agency managing the National Debt to a manager of a complex portfolio of public assets and liabilities. Businesses managed by the NTMA include borrowing for the Exchequer and the management of the National Debt, the State Claims Agency, the New Economy and Recovery Authority ("NewERA"), the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, the Future Ireland Funds and National Development Finance Agency. The NTMA also assigns staff to the National Asset Management Agency, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) and Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI). The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) sources and completes investments on a commercial basis in a manner designed to support economic activity and employment in Ireland. In June 2022 ISIF announced a revised impact strategy. This strategy focuses on long-term transformational investments addressing key strategic challenges facing the country. These include climate action, housing and enabling infrastructure, scaling indigenous businesses, and food and agriculture. In addition, ISIF has flexibility to invest in national and compelling investments in response to future events. See for more detail.

Role Summary

The purpose of the Business Support Specialist role is to provide comprehensive administrative, operational and business support to ISIF, helping to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of key activities, processes and ideal candidate will be capable of handling a wide range of administrative and executive support related tasks. The person must be well-organised and relish the challenges inherent in supporting the unit. The ability to interact with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels sometimes under pressure, is essential. A high level of professionalism and confidentiality/discretion is crucial for this role. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail are equally important. All members of the ISIF team are required to remain flexible to respond to the dynamic nature of the mandate - this may require team members to apply their skills outside of their core areas of responsibility, from time to time.

Principal Accountabilities

• Support ISIF team in the preparation of documents and reports, excel spreadsheets, power point presentations, letters as required.
• Assist in the development of collateral for ISIF, working with the team to ensure consistency to the look and feel of Unit's output.
• This includes developing presentations for internal and external stakeholders and co-ordination of ISIF Parliamentary Questions, Freedom of Information and media requests.
• End to end ownership of key functional monthly meetings including scheduling, creating agendas, minute taking and follow up of open actions.
• Establishment and management of workflow processes for the Unit for various committee and board meetings.
• Travel management, invoice processing, staff expenses processing and other ad-hoc administrative support for the ISIF team.
• Such other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• High standard of written and spoken English
• Highly competent in Microsoft Office - use of Word/PowerPoint/Excel, Power BI, Sharepoint, etc.
• Flexible, able to work unsupervised
• Able to manage competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail
• Good co-ordination skills

Qualifications & Experience

• Preferable: 3rd level Qualification
• Experience of supporting projects / programme delivery

Pension Abatement

If an appointee has previously been employed in the Civil or Public Service and that appointee is entitled to or in receipt of a pension from the Civil or Public Service or where a Civil/Public Service pension comes into payment during the appointee's re-employment that pension will be subject to abatement in accordance with Section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2012. Please note: In applying for this position, you are acknowledging that you understand that the abatement provisions, where relevant, will apply. It is not envisaged that the employing Department/Office/Body will support an application for an abatement waiver in respect of appointments to this position. Applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment declaration to confirm whether they have previously availed of a Public sector pension scheme.

The NTMA is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognise that a diverse and inclusive workplace informs better decision making, creative thinking, innovation and drives business performance. We are strongly committed to ensuring that our workforce is representative of our society.