Admin Assistant

Peabody has an exciting opportunity for an Admin Assistant to join their New Business team based in London. This role is a full time and permanent position. For this they’re offering a competitive salary of £24,000 - £25,000 per annum.

When you join Peabody, you join an extensive and growing business. One with 27,000 homes, 70,000 residents and a 150-year history. As a major housing association we have outstanding challenges for people with talent and motivation. But we also have a strong commitment to the ideals of our philanthropist founder: George Peabody. That means you’ll have every chance to achieve – while making a difference. 

Our principles are simple: we believe in helping people and communities to grow, in estates that are springboards – not safety nets. With operations in nearly every London borough and one of the sector’s largest community regeneration programmes, we’re always keen to meet talented people who support our ambitions.

Key Development Areas for our ideal Admin Assistant are:

- To provide an efficient and customer focussed administrative support service to the Business Support Co-ordinator/Executive Director/team/department to ensure effective service delivery is achieved and maintained. 
- Reporting to: Business Support Co-ordinator.

 Our ideal Admin Assistant will have the following essential skills and experience:

- Diary management skills.
- Significant experience of providing administrative support.
- Proven time management and prioritisation skills.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
- Conscientious and sufficiently confident to work on own initiative.
- Strong experience of using and maintaining office systems and records.
- Ability to create documents to good standard.
- Ability to produce fast accurate work to deadlines in a high pressure environment.
- Intermediate computer literacy in Microsoft packages, including Outlook, Word and Excel.

Our ideal Admin Assistant will have the following desirable skills and experience:

- Some knowledge or experience of the Property Development process would be advantageous.

You will NOT require a DBS check.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed to become a Peabody Admin Assistant please click ‘Apply’ now.

Peabody is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.