Total 3 job vacancies by Brook Street

Position: Executive Assistant

Location: Hybrid (2 days in office, 3 days remote)

Salary: £28,800

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and organised Executive Assistant to support a director who operates across three sites. This role involves managing the director's diary, taking minutes during meetings, and liaising with key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Diary Management: Efficiently manage the Director's schedule across multiple locations.
• Minute Taking: Accurately record minutes during meetings and distribute them to relevant parties.
• Report Preparation: Prepare monthly and quarterly reports, highlighting key discussions and actions.
• GDPR Compliance: Ensure all activities adhere to GDPR regulations.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Communicate effectively with various stakeholders and manage high-volume inbox with professionalism and efficiency.

Experience:

• Must be a confident minute taker.
• Proven experience in diary management.
• Strong understanding of GDPR compliance.
• Ability to work independently at a Board level, supporting an Executive Director.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.

Why Join Us?

As part of a small team of five Executive Assistants, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Executive Management Team. This position offers a unique opportunity to provide business support while enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work environment. If you are looking for a rewarding position that allows you to contribute meaningfully, we would love to hear from you!

Apply now to join the team!

Senior Domestic Abuse Caseworker

Cardiff

£28,000

35 Hours a week

Are you passionate about making a difference? The charity we are supporting provides expert, specialist, independent support to women and children who have experienced domestic and sexual violence/abuse. They offer individually tailored support packages, group work, advocacy, and prevention work throughout the community.

The role involves supporting the adult team and other services by providing advice, conducting file audits, and case reviews. Responsibilities include managing complex cases, offering specialist guidance to external agencies, delivering training, and ensuring risk and safety plans meet client needs. The role also includes advocating for domestic abuse victims, working with key agencies, maintaining case records, and ensuring compliance with GDPR and diversity standards.

You will need to hold an IDVA qualification to be suitable for this role and drive with access to your own vehicle.

Benefits

33 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays

Employee Assistance Program

Flexi Working

Life Assurance

Join us in making a positive impact on the lives of those affected by domestic and sexual abuse.

To hear more about this role and other similar opportunities, please apply today with an up to date CV!

Post open to women only under the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.

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Brook Street Social Care is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job summary:

The Strategy and Planning team are entering into a significantly busy period with the development of a new corporate strategy and the implementation of the year 5 against our current strategy. Due to recent changes in the team, we are seeking a Strategy and Planning Officer (up to 1FTE) to join our team for a minimum of 6 months.

Overall this role is about supporting the team across the three areas of corporate strategy, strategic planning and monitoring and reporting. This will be an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your skills working in collaboration with the team to support business needs. You will report to a Senior Strategy and Planning Manager supporting a range of activities as well as leading on specific tasks to support the function of the team.

Activities could include:

• Corporate Reporting: commissioning quarterly report input from Directors and Corporate Senior Leaders identifying accurate and timely qualitative and quantitative insights from that data to feed into the annual corporate business plan quarterly progress reports.
• Report writing: providing practical support to the team to produce documents to feed into the development of our corporate strategy
• Workshops and Meetings: providing support to the whole team to organise and prepare for meetings and workshops, organising agendas and recording and distributing key insights and actions
• Presentation and communication: presenting in meetings and communicating with all levels of the business
• Flexibility and resilience: You will support work across the team picking up new tasks where allocation of work needs to be reviewed to meet team objectives.
• Organisational team support: maintaining the team inbox, flagging important items and allocating them to appropriate team members. Maintaining the team plan to feed into the monthly team planning meetings.

This list is not exhaustive, you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.

Person Specification

We are interested in people who:

1. demonstrate strong organisational and planning skills to be able to balance priorities and support others to contribute to your workstreams.
2. take ownership and show initiative for taking on tasks and actions that support the function of the team, working both independently and alongside team members.
3. demonstrate excellent people skills to quickly develop positive and collaborative relationships with a range of colleagues across the organisation
4. demonstrate critical thinking skills, including the ability to identify and assess options, and make well-argued recommendations.
5. demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate messages clearly to a range of audiences at all levels - both verbally and in writing.
6. present confidently with colleagues at all levels and can plan and produce materials, in preparation for workshops and meetings
7. proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint and Teams
8. can operate in an ambiguous and changing environment, identifying what is important and continuing to deliver team objectives.

About the Strategy and Planning Team

Strategy and Planning are a small but impactful team working at the heart of Companies House, within the Strategy, Policy and External Communications Directorate. We help shape, produce, and communicate our corporate strategy across the business. We also work across the business to produce underpinning strategic roadmaps, the annual business plan, and public targets. We facilitate strategic planning and prioritisation activities with Executive board, Main Board, and senior management with oversight of strategic priorities. We are also responsible for tracking progress against our strategy through regular monitoring and reporting. We work collaboratively with colleagues at every level across Companies House, providing support with translating strategy into delivery, prioritisation, and planning.

Our team is organised around a cycle of developing and delivering our corporate strategy, building annual plans and monitoring, and reporting its progress. We broadly work under three areas of focus - strategy, strategic planning and monitoring and reporting. Each of these areas has a lead (Principal Strategy and Planning Manager) supported by Senior Strategy and Planning Managers.

Behaviours

• Managing a quality service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace